Hi :) I agree. You originally asked for help in this list over a week ago and no-one was able to give any good answers. I gave a couple of pointers (i hope i remembered) and you put a lot of work into trying to get the slides working. It is frustrating that we can't crack the ppt format yet.
My usual work-around is to give the LibreOffice download link to people i send stuff too but it's not always a viable option. It works for Adobe's .pdfs but doesn't work for us often enough. Apols and regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Mon, 18 April, 2011 8:26:08 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility Do not forget that MS Op Systems and Office apps gave us universal communication. Apart from the occasional blue screen, my XP runs without hassle. With Linux I get the feeling that like dedicated lovers of Series 2 Landrovers, you have to be seriously technical and keep your spanners with you at all times. I long for the day I can use LibO, knowing any document I create can be read by business colleagues world-wide on MS systems. Right now that's not the case, for example each time I send an Impress file to an MS PP user and it blows up it further demonstrates the gulf that currently exists between open and closed systems. Much as though I detest the latest edition of powerpoint and it's anal GUI, I have no choice but to use it.... I can't afford the time to write in Impress and then spend a day trying to make it work in PP. If you really want to hurt Uncle Bob then LibO must get it's act to together asap and ensure all LibO office apps are compatible to the extent that it allows trouble free document exchange between the open and closed systems. That way the MS user brigade will get confidence and hopefully may switch over... but until that day then Uncle Bob will rule the roost. Maybe someone can answer this?.... when will a LibO developer(s) focus on compatibility between MS and LibO.... and realise the way to sink MS is to prove reliability and compatibility in LibO. Meantime will someone please resolve why Impress (slides) with embedded sound files loses them when trying to convert to ppt? In addition why LibO Impress can sometimes lose the audiofile links (to MP3 files) all on it's own! without any help from PP, Meantime i try and use LibO as much as is practical but am forced to use MS office whenever it's for distribution. Sad. Timi -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
