On 2/18/07, Marc Hug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With OpenOffice, you can open each Powerpoint slide, but there are some
problems, e.g. if there is music playing during the whole presentation,
it will not be displayed. I am not specially used to this part of
OpenOffice, and I hope others will give you more detailed information.
Marc H.
Ken Montanye a écrit :
>My primary reason for downloading OpenOffice would be to allow my children to
e-mail PowerPoint presentations they are doing at school to our home (as
attachments), working on them at home, saving the changes and e-mailing back to
their school e-mail addresses. Can this be done if their school uses PowerPoint
and our home uses OpenOffice?
>
>Ken M.
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Hello Ken,
I do this regularly when I do not manage to finish what I am doing at
work :-). Other possible issues include:
- sometimes Impress (the OOo equivalent of PowerPoint) "forgets" to
honour the paper size of PowerPoint
- sometimes the rendering of the fonts make so that for example, a
sentence that in PP fits a line spans over two in Impress or viceversa
- (this is probably not a big issue) at work I have some
company-specific fonts, if I use them they are substituted with other
fonts which ruin the layout of the text. The simple solution is to
stick to microsoft core fonts
- if you create too advanced graphics e.g areas with complex
transparency gradients or text rotated of awkward angles, PP does not
handle them correctly.
- I have also had experience of importing presentations made in PP
with hierarchically structured lists which were not imported correctly
- slides with loads of manual formatting you increase the risks of
having problems when importing in the other program. Although neither
PP or Impress excel in the use of styles (they both lack a character
style definition) you should make an effort to use them as much as you
can.
- finally (something I never use but I know a lot of people who love
it), PP automatically fits the text in the text area by reducing the
font size, changing the line spacing or both. Impress does not do
that, so importing or exporting may have some problems. By the way,
not resizing fonts or changing line spacing automatically is a *good*
thing because (a) presentations look *much* better when few font sizes
are used; (b) it forces you not to try to cram too many words in each
slide.
Cheers,
Michele
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