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Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't.

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On 11/5/18 9:25 AM, SilverSlimer wrote:
> On 2018-11-05 10:50 a.m., DFS wrote:
>> https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/
>>
>>
>> So I opened a .pptx file with LO 6.1.0.3 for Windows.
>>
>> Nearly every page is extremely garbled, if not completely unreadable.
>>
>> https://imgur.com/a/mcN1D7M
> 
> Clearly, you've edited the image to make it look worse than it is and we 
> will all now demonize you as a spawn of Snit and such.
> 
>> Here's the .pptx file
>> http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=49764924794247096223
> 
> D'oh! I can confirm that it doesn't open properly here on the latest 
> version of LibreOffice. The first two slides seem okay but the third is 
> clearly garbled up. However, I wonder whether a similar presentation 
> produced in LibreOffice Impress would have ended up in the same way if 
> opened in Microsoft Office. If not, wouldn't it be correct to assume 
> that maybe the _format_, not the software, is the issue?
> 
> I don't entirely trust the OfficeOpen XML format.
> 

While it is different mistakes, Keynote also has problems with it.

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LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 10:50 -0500
  Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-05 11:25 -0500
    Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 08:55 -0800
    Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-05 10:29 -0700
    Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-05 10:30 -0700
  Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 08:28 -0800
    Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-05 18:48 +0000
      Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 10:56 -0800
      Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 11:01 -0800
      Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-05 19:10 -0500
  Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-05 17:01 +0000
    Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. fr314159@gmail.com - 2018-11-05 09:16 -0800
    Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 12:18 -0500
      Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 09:58 -0800
  Re: LO liars: "LibreOffice is compatible with PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)" No, it isn't. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-05 10:40 -0700

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