[Cialug] LO & PPT

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Wed May 1 09:29:07 CDT 2013


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:22 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> I just downloaded a PPT, and LO *refused* to open it (it tried to
> 'import', which is garbage).
>
> Opened the SAME file in LO on Windoze, and it imported just fine! Saved it
> as an .odp, and now it also opens just fine on Linux.
>
> Has anyone experienced this sort of behavior? I seem to recall a number of
> import problems with LO on Linux in the past, but there are no uninstalled
> packages that might affect this behavior.

What version of LO were you using on Linux and on Windows?
Same/different?  Vendor-supplied or downloaded from LO? Plus there's
also the issue of what versions of supporting libraries were used to
compile, what features enabled, etc. etc.

--
Jeff Ollie


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