Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility

Hi,

Sorry if I'm repeating things already said, but the thread seems broken,
so I may have missed some responses...

PDF export is usually the best fall-back solution if you don't have any
jazzy effects etc. Simply works on 99% machines and is pretty fast.

Asking people to download and install Libreoffice is indeed not feasible
especially in work environments where even if they may be willing to
install, they may not have the rights to, should call a sysadmin etc.

Maybe it would make sense to have a lighter, portable Impress Viewer,
similar to PDF viewers to possibly bundle or link to when sending
presentations?

One interesting thing I've seen and experimented with lately is a tool
enabling to create presentations from Inkscape [1] called JessyInk [2].
While making a presentation in a vector graphics program may sound a bit
crazy and certainly geeky, the most interesting thing is that slideshows
created this way are saved to SVG format and in turn can be presented in
a 'modern' browser (like Firefox 4 and chrom[ium][e]) including cool
effects, zoom-in zoom-out etc. So... maybe it would make sense to have a
SVG exp[/imp]orter in Impress?

Just some thoughts.

Lorenzo.

[1] http://inkscape.org/
[2] http://code.google.com/p/jessyink/

Tom Davies wrote:
> 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 :)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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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