Hi
I want to ask a question.
Has anyone else observed this behaviour?
I test this relatively regularly at the college.
A) I have a perfectly legal copy of MS Powerpoint (tm) and made many presentations with it before I moved to Linux. I always keep several backups of everyting because MS quickly started complaining that the presentation was "corrmpted" and had to "replace" several, random, slides with "a white sheet". Well, as I showed years ago at another forum it is a script in the .xml file that MS puts onto the file when the script is removed the white sheets disappear.
There is a whole cottage industry on the net for "fixing" these supposedly corrupted presentations.
B) I started by using Libre Office to produce .ppt and later .pptx (both tm) and by and large, if they were set to "read only" things generally worked ok.
But,
C) I quickly learned to made a .pdf version which MS would always accept but it did not allow for "animations".
D) So, as a "thing" I have for many years made the original presentation in what is now Calligra Stage and exported to L. O. for .ppt and .pptx and thence to a .pdf.
A lot of people harangued me for going to the trouble but the point was that I always started a session at the college by trying the Calligra ".odp" version first and recently it has been working ok but usually there was a problem with formatting the text. The text always got very big and it was unusable for a lot of the slides.
Well...a few weeks ago this changed.
E) the Calligra Stage version of the presentation has been opening without formatting problems and animations have been working! :0
F) So the question is...has anyone else observed this behaviour in a MS setting?
SIDENOTE: I wonder if this is in any way an end result of the infusion of $100K by Handshake to the Calligra Suite devs?
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I want to ask a question.
Has anyone else observed this behaviour?
I test this relatively regularly at the college.
A) I have a perfectly legal copy of MS Powerpoint (tm) and made many presentations with it before I moved to Linux. I always keep several backups of everyting because MS quickly started complaining that the presentation was "corrmpted" and had to "replace" several, random, slides with "a white sheet". Well, as I showed years ago at another forum it is a script in the .xml file that MS puts onto the file when the script is removed the white sheets disappear.
There is a whole cottage industry on the net for "fixing" these supposedly corrupted presentations.
B) I started by using Libre Office to produce .ppt and later .pptx (both tm) and by and large, if they were set to "read only" things generally worked ok.
But,
C) I quickly learned to made a .pdf version which MS would always accept but it did not allow for "animations".
D) So, as a "thing" I have for many years made the original presentation in what is now Calligra Stage and exported to L. O. for .ppt and .pptx and thence to a .pdf.
A lot of people harangued me for going to the trouble but the point was that I always started a session at the college by trying the Calligra ".odp" version first and recently it has been working ok but usually there was a problem with formatting the text. The text always got very big and it was unusable for a lot of the slides.
Well...a few weeks ago this changed.
E) the Calligra Stage version of the presentation has been opening without formatting problems and animations have been working! :0
F) So the question is...has anyone else observed this behaviour in a MS setting?
SIDENOTE: I wonder if this is in any way an end result of the infusion of $100K by Handshake to the Calligra Suite devs?
woodhasalwayspromotedCalligragoingbacktoLinuxforum ssmoke
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