And to repeat myself for the umpteenth time :-), I have put into place all 
the infrastructure for a Powerpoint import filter already. it even reas the 
text from at least one .PPT I have!

If someone feels like merging the OpenOffice stuff with what is there...

> > OpenOffice is the GPL version of StarOffice.  Would the KOffice project
> > be able to use the OpenOffice PowerPoint filters?
>
> What Nicolas meant is obviously: not right now, but one could, in theory,
> reuse code from the openoffice filters, if he wanted to (the primary
> questions being about modularity, readability, etc. Working code isn't
> enough to make a re-use worth it.)
>
> Note that this is a voluntary project, so nothing won't happen unless
> someone volunteers for the task. Feel free to give a hand :)