On 01/03/2012, Dag Wieers <d...@wieers.com> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, e-letter wrote: > >> On 28/02/2012, Roger Sawkins <ro...@sawkins.name> wrote: >> >>> I have Powerpoint on one machine and LibreOffice on another. I want to be >>> able to edit and save PowerPoints on either machine. However, when >>> loading >>> Ppt in Presentation it does not always convert font and layout properly. >>> Occasional tabs or spaces are missing or duplicated; occasional text >>> boxes >>> have text outside the slide, etc. >> >> Your are wasting your time. Make a cost-benefit analysis and decide >> whether to use either LO or m$; do not bother trying to use both. > > Are we being rude today ? >
No we are asking a sensible, direct question. > The case Roger describes is something we all encounter when > exporting/importing PPT documents. And while we do not control how > (various) Microsoft products behave when using ODF, we can undoubtedly do > a better job at making sure the import from and export to PPT (and PPTX) > is smoother. > No thank you, instead m$ can do a better job interpreting odf12. > And if this is something Roger wants to help (waste time?) on, who are we > to decide whether that is useful or not. Instead of providing no hope to > users, I would prefer if we would clarify how users can help > developers improve our product. > Improving the native odf behaviour is more important than m$ formats. You want m$ output? Buy a legal copy of m$o. > > So can we be a bit more polite next time and provide hope, rather than > despair ? ;-) > Polite for odf, yes, but helping m$ remain dominant? No. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
