https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37932
--- Comment #9 from Rex Djere <dje...@dteenergy.com> --- NOTE: The opinions expressed below are my own only. I do not speak for or represent my employer, or any other organization. In my experience, Smart Art is being used extensively in the creation of new Power Point Lectures. In my opinion, this needs to be a major priority for inclusion into LibreOffice if LibreOffice is going eventually going to become a viable alternative to MS Office in the business environment. Not to mention that Smart Art is a VERY useful feature. It does drastically decrease the amount of time required to create a lesson plan. Exporting a PowerPoint file to .odp format does not always work. I took a .pptx presentation created in MS PowerPoint 2010, exported it as .odp, and opened it in LibreOffice Impress 4.3.3.2 and it crashed on a slide near the middle of the presentation. It crashes on the same slide every time, a slide that is very heavy with Smart Art events. I recommend not trying to copy Microsoft's vision of Smart Art, but to try to introduce a clean room implementation of a hierarchical separation of structure from content in Impress presentations. I envision mind maps, and other similar advanced organizational techniques. Since the organization of information by context is prior art (e.g. xml, css, etc.) I do not think that the LibreOffice Foundation would run into any patent issues implementing such features, even if MS has patented Smart Art in some way. I believe that separating content from structure has been so widely implemented that it is a concept that is really impossible to monopolize through patents. I have experience in C++ programming, but not enough to code this change to LibreOffice. However, I would be willing to help in other ways, if necessary. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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