Impress crashes when trying to insert an image

Hi there, my first post! I have a problem with Impress.
Impress crashes every time I click on Insert → Image …
I have LibreOffice 25.2 and work with macOS 15.5 (24F74) and the German language Pack. Any hints, any workaround? Thank you!

what kind of images ?
what with Writer ?
etc …

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No problem on


Version: 25.2.5.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 520(Build:2) CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: en-US Ubuntu package version: 4:25.2.5~rc2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~lo1 Calc: threaded

Try (menu Help) Restart in Safe Mode…

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Unfortunately this already happens when I click on this menu, it crashes immediately, I have no chance to select anything. Just when I try to select Insert → Image.
It just happens in Impress, Writer is not affected. It happens with every existing Impress file and also when I open a new one and try to click on Insert → Image.

Hi there.

This happend to me too - a lot.

Until I found out that the images I used where rather big
(in resolution, dimensions and file size).

So I used an image editor and:

  • scaled down the image resolution
    (to 100dpi for display on a video screen, for example),
  • reduced the image dimensions
    (in my case: dimensions in range of 1920x1080px and below, because the target platform was a FullHD video projector)
  • saved the images using JPG at 95% quality.

With the resulting, much smaller images I no longer had said crash.

Maybe this helps with your case as well,
Timo

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