Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility

Hi :)

I agree.  You originally asked for help in this list over a week ago and no-one 
was able to give any good answers.  I gave a couple of pointers (i hope i 
remembered) and you put a lot of work into trying to get the slides working.  It 
is frustrating that we can't crack the ppt format yet.

My usual work-around is to give the LibreOffice download link to people i send 
stuff too but it's not always a viable option.  It works for Adobe's .pdfs but 
doesn't work for us often enough.

Apols and regards from
Tom :)




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From: "timi@iafrica.com" <timi@iafrica.com>
To: wborean@gmail.com; users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Mon, 18 April, 2011 8:26:08
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility

Do not forget that MS Op Systems and Office apps gave us universal 
communication. Apart 

from the occasional blue screen, my XP runs without hassle. With Linux I get the 
feeling that 

like dedicated lovers of Series 2 Landrovers, you have to be seriously technical 
and keep 

your spanners with you at all times.

I long for the day I can use LibO, knowing any document I create can be read by 
business 

colleagues world-wide on MS systems.

Right now that's not the case, for example each time I send an Impress file to 
an MS PP user 

and it blows up it further demonstrates the gulf that currently exists between 
open and closed 

systems.

Much as though I detest the latest edition of powerpoint and it's anal GUI, I 
have no choice 

but to use it.... I can't afford the time to write in Impress and then spend a 
day trying to make 

it work in PP.

If you really want to hurt Uncle Bob then LibO must get it's act to together 
asap and ensure 

all LibO office apps are compatible to the extent that it allows trouble free 
document 

exchange between the open and closed systems.

That way the MS user brigade will get confidence and hopefully may switch 
over... but until 

that day then Uncle Bob will rule the roost.

Maybe someone can answer this?.... when will a LibO developer(s) focus on 
compatibility 

between MS and LibO.... and realise the way to sink MS is to prove reliability 
and 

compatibility in LibO.

Meantime will someone please resolve why Impress (slides) with embedded sound 
files 

loses them when trying to convert to ppt? In addition why LibO Impress can 
sometimes lose 

the audiofile links (to MP3 files) all on it's own! without any help from PP,

Meantime i try and use LibO as much as is practical but am forced to use MS 
office 

whenever it's for distribution.

Sad.


Timi



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