On 2010-03-15 5:19 PM, Fred Stluka wrote: > OpenOffice.org users, > > Anyone care to share recent experiences with OpenOffice.org and > MS Office 2007 XML documents? > > I received a *.ppsx file recently (MS PowerPoint 2007 XML format, > I assume), and tried opening it on my Mac with: > > - OpenOffice.org 3.1.0
Why would you try an older version first? > It prompted me with a list of 140 possible formats to import as. > I chose "Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 XML", and it opened the file. > It looks partly right, but not good enough to work with. > I can see that there are 10 slides, and can view each slide. > However, most of the formatting is bad enough that I can't read > the text of the slides, since many lines of text are overlaid > on top of each other, clipped, or missing entirely. Some of > the graphics are perfect. Others are missing. Impress is Openoffice.org's weakest component - always has been. That said, if Microsoft itself can't even get perfect comparability between different versions of its own software, imagine how much more difficult it is for 3rd parties. I think OOo does a great job, and anytime formatting is broken, I blame MS... -- Charles --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
