I fully appreciate the importance of using open file formats. Still
I am struggling with a problem because the powerpoint skeleton in
the "house style" of my university is not properly processed by
OpenOffice Impress.
Actually, your message is a proof of what I say in the seminar.
Proprietary file formats must be avoided period. The right thing to do
is to complain with your university. Why do they distribute templates
which only work with one (expensive) program?
I could not agree more. But it is hard to cure a Microsoft addict. I even
argued that the use of the university MS Office licence was illegal for the
work I was doing at the time, because the licence is only valid for
education, and I did consultancy at the time (for the European Commission),
which was under a commercial contract. I also complained that the staff
talks about "a powerpoint" if they mean: a presentation using a PC, but they
bluntly replied that the word "powerpoint" has become synonymous with any PC
presentation tool. Incidentally, I am aware that such use of the word
powerpoint is an illegal use of a trademark (because it may dilute the
trademark). If the European Commission decides one day that all trademark
infringements are crimes, it is even a crime to denote a PC presentation as
a powerpoint.
So for my presentation next week, I look forward to the confusion.
"Do you use powerpoint?"
"No"
"But I do need a beamer projector to show my slides"
And they will be flabbergasted.
reinier
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