Yes, that's enormously better than what I got from the current LibreOffice opening the original StarOffice file.
I wasn't aware that there were animations in the file, as I've never opened it myself in StaOffice. On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM Kent Borg <kentb...@borg.org> wrote: > On 7/7/25 11:39 AM, John Abreau wrote: > > Sure. > > > > The worst of them is from the CUPS meeting in April 2003. The > > StarOffice source file is on the BLU server at > > > > https://blu.org/meetings/2003/04/cups_and_imaging_for_BLU.sdd > > > The OpenOffice 1.1.2 that is included in Ubuntu 4.10, "Warty Warthog", > seems to open that presentation just fine. There are some cosmetic > problems, but I suspect they are due to a non-graphic artist creating > the presentation and not Openoffice having a bug. > > There are a lot of export options: PDF and a zillion mostly image > formats, including Flash and PICT! > > The PDF doesn't handle the animations well, it shows the starting state > from before the content animates in. > > > But the "Save as…" includes old Powerpoint. When I open in a recent > LibreOffice the animations are flattened to the final slide state, but > that seems okay. Actually, better than what I see on the old Openoffice: > higher quality typefaces. > > I attach the resulting file. (I suppose John will see it but not the list.) > > > Look useful? > > > -kb, the Kent who could probably save-as a bunch of these. > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: abre...@gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
