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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KPresenter - Powerpoint filter [Re: KOffice for KDE3]
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2002-02-14 8:35:28
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Hi Shaheed!

On Wednesday 13 February 2002 21:05, shaheed wrote:
|   Hi Vadim,
|
|   > So far, import filter for PowerPoint was always crashing for me.
|   > (and experience with importing MS-originated docs is much worser with
|   > PowerPoint, comparing to Word 2000; word filter was always much more
|   > stable)
|
|   Can you send me a small one that crashes please please?

Big one (7Mb-10MB) - no problem :-)
As about small file - I guess I need to reduce one of existing presentations 
in some way. [I will do it today or tomorrow].
Usually all PowerPoint presentations have a lot of graphics (embedded), so 
most likely this causes a lot of troubles.

|
|   > Does someone work on Powerpoint filter for KPresenter?
|
|   No. Many people have said that they would, but no code so far...
|
|   > Having this filter working is critical for office migration to
|   > KDE/Linux. Just as an idea of it importance: from 11 people we have in
|   > office, 9 use PowerPoint.
|   > I understand that resources are limited.
|   > But, if it's not possible to write fully-featured PowerPoint filter in
|   > nearest future - may be, it's possible to have filter which does text
|   > extraction from PowerPoint presentations?
|
|   That's exactly what the current filter does when it works. It extracts
| the text, and puts them on a set of slides. At the moment, it always seems
| to create two extra slides at the beginning (possibly related to the master
| layouts?) but that is a rather benign "bug".

In fact I tried on two kind of presentations - from the company where my wife 
works, and from the company where I work (plus old ones from my archive)
And import filter was crashing, so basically I gave up on further testing.

but, as you kindly agreed to check small .ppt - I will try to reduce existing 
files to a small one, and reproduce crashes with them.

|
|   > Shaheed, you have mentioned that all MS formats are rather similar
|   > internally. Do you think that it's possible to extract text from .ppt?
|
|   See the attached for what happens when it works!
|
|   Seriously, this filter is one where someone with a modest amount of
| effort could probably make a LOT of progress in a short period of time.
| Unfortunately, that's not likely to be me in the near future...I am however
| happy to help anyone who takes up this challenge.
|
|   Thanks, Shaheed

Thank you!
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