On 06/13/2012 08:32 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Educational institutions and students can sometimes get discounts as do some > charitable organisations. > > I think my route would be to try to set-up the template in LibreOffice but > use the .otp (native ODF template format) for the main original, then use > that to Save As a .pot rather than a .potX to create one that MS Office can > open and then use MS Office to tweak the .pot to fix any problems. Scott has > more experience with doing presentations tho but that is what i would do for > spreadsheets or word-processor files. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > --- On Wed, 13/6/12, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Scott <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] PowerPoint templates and choice of .pot vs > .potx? > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, 13 June, 2012, 23:14 > > On Wednesday June 13, 2012 1:27 pm avamk wrote: >> Hello, >> >> My group is in the process of setting up a slideshow template, and >> unfortunately for practical reasons need to save it as a PowerPoint >> template. >> >> My question is twofold: >> >> (1) What are some of your experiences in opening and using PowerPoint >> templates in LibreOffice? I prefer saving in the template in a format that I >> can reasonably expect good support for in LibreOffice. > Templates created in PowerPoint, regardless of the file format, often have > issues in LibreOffice. The most common issues I have encountered are elements > that are misplaced on the slide and font effects that do not transfer to > LibreOffice from PowerPoint. But the most faithful reproduction seems to > occur > when using ppt files, regardless of whether they were created from a pot or a > potx. pptx files are not as well-supported under LibreOffice as .ppt files > are. > But that's just my experience using a couple of templates I created in > PowerPoint 2010. > > >> (2) We prefer a format that is as future proof as possible (in terms of >> consistent look and format using it between different software, Micro$oft or >> otherwise). With that in mind, which of the following would be a better >> choice? Microsoft PowerPoint 97/Xp/2000/2003 Template (*.pot), Microsoft >> PowerPoint 2007/2010 XML Template (*.potx), or Office Open XML Presentation >> Template (*.potm; *.potx)? > That's a difficult question to give a blanket answer for. It will depend on > what > features you include in your template. You will need to ensure that the fonts > you use are available on all systems where the templates will be used, for > instance. Your templates will need to be tested on all the software where it > will be used to ensure that formatting is consistent. This could be an > ongoing > process. > > One thing you might consider is whether you need the presentation in any of > those formats. PowerPoint and Libreoffice can export presentations to PDF, > which > can be presented with some limited transition effects in many PDF viewers. > Not > many viewers offer a presentation mode with suitable features, though. Okular > seems to have the best presentation mode among the PDF viewers I have tested, > and there is a Windows version of that available from kde.org. > >> Our work environment consists mainly of computers running Micro$oft >> PowerPoint 2010, a couple with PowerPoint 2007, and only one with >> LibreOffice 3.5. (Unfortunately switching all to LibreOffice is not >> practical for numerous reasons that I wish weren't true, but beyond the >> scope of this email.) > You will have far fewer headaches by obtaining an Office license for the one > machine that doesn't have it than to try to make all presentation programs > happy with whatever format is the least common denominator, unfortunately. >
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