[plug] OO.o - slide from hell

[Bill Kenworthy]

I have been working ppt's under OO for a couple of years now, and
usually find its just simpler to redo the offending slides and move on. 
There are quite a few gotcha's with OO vs ppt and compatibility is only
good with simple layouts, where you can open in both and resolve the
visual conflicts.

I have had only one case where someone turned up to a presentation with
one that wouldnt work under OO, so had to boot XP because of time
constraints - same situ for you i guess.

Also saw an example of a pdf generated under OO used as a fullscreen
presentation under windoze, so I copied the method and used it for a
presentation last week - it looks like a better way to go.  Other than
not being able to do super fancy effects, it looks like a viable method
of getting compatibility in that what you see under OO is what you get
on doze.

BillK

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 09:45, Denis Brown wrote:
> Dear PLUG list members,
> 
> A user (from a related but different UWA site) has prepared a PowerPoint 
> slide presentation in Office-XP.   Most slides in this Cecil B. DeMille, 
> cast of thousands, glorious living Technicolor extravaganza cooperate 
> nicely with OO.o (and with Office 97 for that matter) but two 
> fancy-transition slides in particular fail to display legibly.
> 
> The slides in question comprise multiple graphs and annotations, each of 
> which is supposed to disappear, to be replaced with its successor upon a 
> key-press from the operator, while common heading text remains on 
> display.   The same effect could be achieved by having several slides, each 
> with common heading text and each having its own graph.  The user would 
> then select between the slides in the usual manner (timed or press spacebar).
> 
> Given the urgency of the situation the presenter will supply and use their 
> own XP-equipped laptop but I am curious to know if others have faced this 
> sort of challenge and if so, has it been dealt with successfully?   I would 
> add that my standard roll-out to my clients includes nothing beyond Office 
> 97 and over the next few years I'll move them to OO.o and then Linux as the 
> OS.   <rant>  I have no objection to Cecil B. DeMille productions per se 
> but wonder at the need to employ such for what is after all a scientific 
> presentation, not a game show. <end rant>
> 
> TIA,
> Denis
> 
> 
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