Dear Open Office: I found your site today by visiting http://www.masternewmedia.org/2004/04/14/powerpoint_to_flash_conversion_tools.htm
Your projects look to be exciting and useful, and the philosophy of access for all platforms underlying the projects is certainly one I can embrace. My question to you is whether your Open Office download is useful for a specific purpose: I am converting my power point based lectures (also keynote) to Flash, and wish sound and captioning to run with the files. Is your product able to provide that for a Mac OSX user? I need to provide as much access as possible for all of my community college students--some of whom have disabilities and others simply have slow, dial-up Internet connections. Clearly, the .swf files are the best for these purposes (Java and QuickTime load too slowly for the dial-up connections). Sound and captioning are crucial as is interactivity: being able to allow students to control navigation, playback speed, hyperlinks, etc. I am already familiar with other products including Flash MX2004 itself, Keynote (converting the sound files to play in Flash for individual slides is cumbersome), and the Windows compatible products--I want to use my Mac solely, if possible. Clearly, if I were to join your community, my contributions would be at the end-user side of the spectrum :-) I look forward to your response, and thank you for your consideration. Hardware and Software Information: iBook G3 Mac OS 10.3.9 900MHZ Apple X11 installed Office for Mac 2001 iWork '05 Natasha Fratello Professor of Psychology American River College (916) 484-8610 Web Address: http://ic.arc.losrios.edu/~frateln
