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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 15:48:02
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On Thursday 14 February 2002 00:26, Brad Hards wrote:
|   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?

well, my plan was to take around 15 company/product presentations in 
PowerPoint, and convert them to KPresenter.
Than, develop new presentations, using KPresenter, and export them to XHTML 
after all (put on web, CD-ROM, etc.)
Plus, one more option: to produce PDF files from those presentations, for use 
by Windows users.

There were no plans from mjy side to support Microsoft (exporting to .ppt), 
after all this is done!..

BTW: when such conversion is done, you can alway convinience users to swicth 
to Linux in following way:
"Do you want this presentation? Take PDF.
 Do you want to edit it, after all? Than you need to install KOffice, running 
on latest KDE release"

Well, I remember pretty well how HP (Hewlett-Packard) guys were pushing me 
(around 6-7 years ago) to use Ami Pro (wordprocessor) and Lotus 
presentations, as their corporate standard was Lotus (and in company where I 
was working  - corporate standard was Microsoft). Finally we installed Lotus 
Notes, just to be able to communicate to HP database, but said "sorry!" about 
Ami Pro...

So, while at a first glance my plan can sound unreal, I believe in such 
scenario. You need to work hard in that direction, and it will work out!

|
|   Brad

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