Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Impress Health Warning!

Hi 
I think sticking with PowerPoint 2003 is smart.  Hopefully Impress will catch up 
and be able to do the things it claims to be able to do.  Sadly and annoyingly 
it's going to be a long while before that happens.
Regards from
Tom :)




________________________________
From: "timi@iafrica.com" <timi@iafrica.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sun, 29 May, 2011 10:42:47
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Impress Health Warning!

Hi Alex,

Re: Trivia

Much appreciate your open and transparent view. I like down to earth discussion. 
My (sad) 

conclusion is that I have to back off LibO Impress and cannot seriously consider 
changing 

from the shackles of MS. I also think maybe us Impress guinea-pig users are in 
the minority 

and it's only Write & Calc that get the majority of attention.

I do not believe it's unreasonable to request accurate information of product 
issues and 

scheduled fixes.

I think Libo should carry a health warning! Basically stating that you can use 
LibO at your own 

peril and that business users do so entirely at their own risk. In particular 
LibO Office suite of 

programs are not interchangeable with their MS counterpart and their 
functionality is not 

guaranteed.

[rant mode on]

My specific point here is the function in Impress "Interaction - Play 
Sound"..... on the surface 

this looks very similar to MS PP "play-sound" equivalent BUT (a) is completely 
different (b) 

utterly fails if you attempt to convert Impress to Powerpoint and (b) Frequently 
loses all paths 

(links) between icons on screen and associated audio files. (Any potential 
Impress users 

beware!)

[rant mode off]

Had I seen such information prior to attempting to seriously use Impress I could 
have saved 

myself much wasted time and effort. Not to mention the piss-poor quality of  
Impress "Help" 

documentation.

I also think LibO for Linux and LibO for MS is a world apart.... Linux users are 
by nature are 

more technically capable than your average MS Windows user (of which I am one - 
shouts of 

speak for yourself...).... So if LibO is to ever meet the needs of the "mass 
market" of which 

MS Office is the dominant platform you gotta give us lesser mortals a stable and 
well 

documented product. 

"Fatal Blue Screens" and years of MS abuse have taught us MS Office Users how to 

seriously bitch. When MS wrecked the old interface to MS -Office by introducing 
their anal 

GUI that's when I turned to Impress out of desperation, (not because it was 
free),  and hoped 

for some normality as I loved its User interface and much of it's functionality.

However as MS Users our hands are tied! If we use "alternative" programs they 
have to have 

interchange compatibility or our business communication is threatened.

I'm now licking my wounds ("open sores" ?) and have reverted to PP 2003 to 
retain my 

sanity.... what else can I do?

Impress - This Product can be hazardous to your health!








-- 
Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+help@libreoffice.org
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
-- 
Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+help@libreoffice.org
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted