Impress & PowerPoint

users
#1

All,

Has anyone been able to get PowerPoint´s to display correctly in LibreOffice
Impress? I am having a lot of trouble with .ppt and .pptx presentations, as
they simply do not display well in LibreOffice. The background, the text,
the formatting, is all messed up and distorted.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Here are the details of my environment:

Ubuntu Linux 11.04, 64bit
LibreOffice 3.4.3, OOO340m1 (Build: 302)

Cheers,

Jack

#2

i usually do not face problem with ppt.with pptx there are lots of problems
but never with ppt.if possible,could you share the offending ppt file?
regards,

#3

No, why should it?

The priority is display of odf format documents. Since you are
experiencing difficulty, pay m$ and use their formats; they are
irrelevant to LO.

It would be higher priority and more interesting to know:

does m$ view odp documents correctly?
is any failure due to LO failing to adhere to the odf standard?
is failure due to m$ failing to adhere to the odf standard?

Answering these questions should enable you to send your questions to
the appropriate software supplier :wink:

#4

Please stop spamming this list with insults to people asking for advice. Do their question sound stupid to you ? Your problem.
Or are you a M$-paid troll whose job is to scare away people who want to try non-M$ products ?

#5

+ 1

#6

Am 03.10.2011 11:52, Marcello Romani wrote:

Please stop spamming this list with insults to people asking for advice.
Do their question sound stupid to you ? Your problem.
Or are you a M$-paid troll whose job is to scare away people who want to
try non-M$ products ?

It is reasonable, well founded advice, particularly for the presentation formats.

On topic: Yes, I have several PowerPoint presentations that are presentable in both programs.

Since Impress is smaller, simplier than PowerPoint. It is logical that it can not support the same set of features in the same way as the more complex software.
The compatibility goes exactly the other way round. The simple ppt you created in this program should be OK in the other program.
If you happen to run Windows and all you need is viewing PP presentations you can install the free PowerPoint viewer from the Microsoft Office home page.

#7

There are at least two ways to express a good idea: by writing a polite and thoughtful response, as you did, or by mixing it with insults. I think the first form acheives the best results. That's all.

#8

Hi :slight_smile:
+1
Insults are unnecessary and unhelpful.  Personal arguments and criticisms would be better off-list too.  Just my opinion, clearly a lot of people disagree, but i agree with Marcello.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#9

Thanks.

I admit my comments in the last few days have not added much useful content for lurkers or the OPs. I just wanted to stress the fact that I fear newcomers to LO / OOo might be scared away if they receive "hard" responses in "general help"-oriented mailing list like this. Which, btw, I think most users see as "official", and from which they thus expect "official" support. Whether or not this is a reasonable expectation is a different matter... :slight_smile:

#10

> Hi :slight_smile:
> +1
> Insults are unnecessary and unhelpful. Personal arguments and criticisms would be better off-list too. Just my opinion, clearly a lot of people disagree, but i agree with Marcello.
> Regards from
> Tom :slight_smile:
>

Thanks.

I admit my comments in the last few days have not added much useful
content for lurkers or the OPs. I just wanted to stress the fact that I
fear newcomers to LO / OOo might be scared away if they receive "hard"
responses in "general help"-oriented mailing list like this. Which, btw,
I think most users see as "official", and from which they thus expect
"official" support. Whether or not this is a reasonable expectation is a
different matter... :slight_smile:

i do not know about "official" support but polite support definitely. I
think there are two problems, user who think they can bully a volunteer
and trolls acting as if they were a volunteer. Most of the regulars
recognize each others email addresses and respect the other regulars. I
have notice most of the regulars are actually very knowledgeable, much
better than most paid support - we are all users. The users asking a
question should be given a polite and accurate answer(s) to their
question. I hope I do this. Now trolls, I do not know how we can stop
them totally.

#11

Hi :slight_smile:
+1
Insults are unnecessary and unhelpful. Personal arguments and criticisms would be better off-list too. Just my opinion, clearly a lot of people disagree, but i agree with Marcello.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Thanks.

I admit my comments in the last few days have not added much useful
content for lurkers or the OPs. I just wanted to stress the fact that I
fear newcomers to LO / OOo might be scared away if they receive "hard"
responses in "general help"-oriented mailing list like this. Which, btw,
I think most users see as "official", and from which they thus expect
"official" support. Whether or not this is a reasonable expectation is a
different matter... :slight_smile:

i do not know about "official" support but polite support definitely. I
think there are two problems, user who think they can bully a volunteer
and trolls acting as if they were a volunteer. Most of the regulars
recognize each others email addresses and respect the other regulars. I
have notice most of the regulars are actually very knowledgeable, much
better than most paid support - we are all users. The users asking a
question should be given a polite and accurate answer(s) to their

That's what I would expect as a user asking a question in a support mailing list. I think I could forgive a little inaccuracy, but would find it hard to accept less than polite answers, event to (supposedly) stupid questions...

question. I hope I do this. Now trolls, I do not know how we can stop
them totally.

Probably the best we can do is ignore (i.e. don't feed) them.