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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KPresenter - Powerpoint filter [Re: KOffice for KDE3]
From:       Brad Hards <bhards () bigpond ! net ! au>
Date:       2002-02-14 0:26:25
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:44, shaheed wrote:
> > > It seems like any presentation with a design template will crash (Maybe
> > > because of LZW compressed container??). The filter extracts the text
> > > out of all the other ppt files i used.
> >
> > How interesting. BTW: I did some looking into LZW and could not come to
> > any real conclusion if we wold be legally safe to decode it. Did you
> > learn anything on this topic?
>
> And to answer my own question...
>
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html says:
Decode == good
Encode == bad.

So the export filter may not be able to generate templates?

Brad
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