Openoffice templates cause crash

jimmy the saint · 2009-10-07 05:36:19

I need to set openoffice to 1 inch margins by default. The only way to do that is to create a custom template and set it as the default template. The problem is that openoffice writer is crashing when it opens a template. I have tried to create several templates, they all result in a crash. I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing this. Google turned up a few bugs similar to this, but they were way back in 2007. Is there a fix that I am missing?

edit: I forgot to add that I just updated so it is go-openoffice v. 3.1.1.2

Thanks

JTS

Last edited by jimmy the saint (2009-10-07 05:41:29)

jimmy the saint · 2009-10-09 03:28:06

It seems that only the origional templates installed with go-openoffice will open. I pulled a saved template from an Ubuntu machine and this arch box couldn't open it. If I take a pre-made template and save it, openoffice is no longer able to open it. It seems that go-openoffice is unable to open any templates that have been saved, not just by this version, but by any version at any time. At least for me.

Edit. Openoffice-base doesn't seem to have this problem.

Last edited by jimmy the saint (2009-10-09 04:39:42)

thepoch · 2009-10-09 07:47:32

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AndyRTR · 2009-10-09 09:37:33

report this issue upstream to the ooo-build guys. they use the Novell bugtracker.

whoops · 2009-10-26 21:36:38

I had the same issue. I...
- deleted the ~/.config/.openoffice.org directory
- installed the templates again globally with

sudo unopkg add --shared *oxt

... and now it works.

Don't know if deleting the settings directory was necessary though, that alone didn't help.

mcsaba77 · 2009-10-30 07:54:45

Same problem here Tried the unopkg add method, it doesn't work here, but I just realized I tried it on my custom .ott files (they are not packages afterall). This is with go-openoffice of course. Regular openoffice seemed to open .ott templates flawlessly when last time I tried (on other distroes though).

neoanima · 2009-10-30 14:55:04

ok, I have a similar problem with go-openoffice 3.1.1.3 and 3.1.1.4 . I created a new blank impress file, and wanted to apply the master page to my slides, but it seemed not working, slides were still blank.

Openoffice-base has no this problem.

cb474 · 2009-12-15 09:05:18

Was a solution ever found to this problem? I'm experiencing the same thing, when trying to create a custom template for Writer. I'm using go-openoffice 3.1.1.5.

I tried "unopkg add --shared *oxt" and got an error:

ERROR: Error while adding: file:///home/user/*oxt
       Cause: an error occured during file opening

unopkg failed.

ngoonee · 2009-12-15 09:08:38

I ended up moving back to openoffice (the beta) instead of go-openoffice because of this....

siriusb · 2010-01-25 08:40:53

I can confirm this template problem.
sudo unopkg add --shared *oxt doesn't work, I got the same message as cb474. Using go-openoffice 3.1.1.5 (because I have to save xls with password protection).

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Openoffice templates cause crash

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