Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress: Problems with slides imported from Powerpoint

On 09/09/2011, mlevison <mark@mlevison.com> wrote:
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> Is this is a common problem. I'm at the point of just asking my client to
> pay for MS office licenses because it will be cheaper than the time I'm
> spending on this.

Classic cost benefit analysis. In this case the business opportunity
is to either receive payment from your customer for you to perform the
conversion (either automated batch process or manually) or to
recommend that m$o licence is used to access legacy documents, whilst
using LO to create odf documents in future.

Assuming m$ licences are valid in perpetuity, it is surprising that
business do not make a strategic decision to use m$ for legacy
documents and LO for future odf documents. As an hypothetical analogy,
it is legal to use a computer with m$windoze98 in perpetuity,
regardless of whether m$ support it; so such a computer could be used
to access a legacy m$ document, whilst using another computer with
gnu/linux distribution installed to create LO odf documents.

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