Re: [libreoffice-users] PowerPoint templates and choice of .pot vs .potx?

On 06/13/2012 08:32 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Educational institutions and students can sometimes get discounts as do some charitable 
> organisations.  
>
> I think my route would be to try to set-up the template in LibreOffice but use the .otp (native 
> ODF template format) for the main original, then use that to Save As a .pot rather than a .potX 
> to create one that MS Office can open and then use MS Office to tweak the .pot to fix any 
> problems.  Scott has more experience with doing presentations tho but that is what i would do for 
> spreadsheets or word-processor files.  
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)  
>
> --- On Wed, 13/6/12, Scott <sbicknel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Scott <sbicknel@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] PowerPoint templates and choice of .pot vs .potx?
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Wednesday, 13 June, 2012, 23:14
>
> On Wednesday June 13, 2012 1:27 pm avamk wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My group is in the process of setting up a slideshow template, and
> > unfortunately for practical reasons need to save it as a PowerPoint
> > template.
> >
> > My question is twofold:
> >
> > (1) What are some of your experiences in opening and using PowerPoint
> > templates in LibreOffice? I prefer saving in the template in a format that I
> > can reasonably expect good support for in LibreOffice.
> Templates created in PowerPoint, regardless of the file format, often have 
> issues in LibreOffice. The most common issues I have encountered are elements 
> that are misplaced on the slide and font effects that do not transfer to 
> LibreOffice from PowerPoint. But the most faithful reproduction seems to occur 
> when using ppt files, regardless of whether they were created from a pot or a 
> potx. pptx files are not as well-supported under LibreOffice as .ppt files are. 
> But that's just my experience using a couple of templates I created in 
> PowerPoint 2010.
>
>
> > (2) We prefer a format that is as future proof as possible (in terms of
> > consistent look and format using it between different software, Micro$oft or
> > otherwise). With that in mind, which of the following would be a better
> > choice? Microsoft PowerPoint 97/Xp/2000/2003 Template (*.pot), Microsoft
> > PowerPoint 2007/2010 XML Template (*.potx), or Office Open XML Presentation
> > Template (*.potm; *.potx)?
> That's a difficult question to give a blanket answer for. It will depend on what 
> features you include in your template. You will need to ensure that the fonts 
> you use are available on all systems where the templates will be used, for 
> instance. Your templates will need to be tested on all the software where it 
> will be used to ensure that formatting is consistent. This could be an ongoing 
> process.
>
> One thing you might consider is whether you need the presentation in any of 
> those formats. PowerPoint and Libreoffice can export presentations to PDF, which 
> can be presented with some limited transition effects in many PDF viewers. Not 
> many viewers offer a presentation mode with suitable features, though. Okular 
> seems to have the best presentation mode among the PDF viewers I have tested, 
> and there is a Windows version of that available from kde.org.
>
> > Our work environment consists mainly of computers running Micro$oft
> > PowerPoint 2010, a couple with PowerPoint 2007, and only one with
> > LibreOffice 3.5. (Unfortunately switching all to LibreOffice is not
> > practical for numerous reasons that I wish weren't true, but beyond the
> > scope of this email.)
> You will have far fewer headaches by obtaining an Office license for the one 
> machine that doesn't have it than to try to make all presentation programs 
> happy with whatever format is the least common denominator, unfortunately.


-- 
Jay Lozier
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