Marc Blanchet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> please don't start a war/flame/thread on file formats
My only intention was to see if someone with Powerpoint would volunteer
to convert the presentations to another format. I thought pointing out
the irony of using a proprietary format might increase my chances a
little, but it may have the unintended consequence of starting a flame
war. Sorry. Let's all try to keep the thread constructive.
Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At any rate there are free powerpoint viewers.
Do you know of any for unix/X?
> PDF is not an open format.
> Neither is GIF, which is what the presentation would have to use if
> the data were characterized as an HTML web page.
> In reality, neither is Postscript.
Maybe "open" was the wrong word. I meant a format for which a spec is
publicly available, and for which anyone may write and distribute a
decoder. I think PDF, GIF, and PostScript all qualify.
(And by the way, PNG is widely supported these days, and is as open as
HTML.)
AMC
