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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 31 12:24:49 +0000 2007 ------- I've joined as an OOo forum member just to add my half-pence worth to this issue. I do have MS Office available to me via my employer, but on my own personal computers I have been sticking to Open Office on one and Star Office on the other. I'm not that keen on the new Office 2007 interface although I expect some like it, but I do find it a relief to come back to the more 'traditional' standard menu interface of OOo where I can easily find things. In short I have been fairly well disposed to OOo recently. I've just spend quite a few hours over the last couple of days putting together a slide show in Impress with my daughter to email to various family members. BTW, I've noticed of late that more and more people use (Powerpoint) slide shows for personal use communicating with friends and family. It is a powerful and graphically rich way of communicating, yet easy to learn. So I've got my Impress slide shown ready to send to various friends and family members - what now. Almost certainly some or all of them won't have Open Office instaled and may not even have heard of it. I've tried exporting to PDF but my little bit of animation is lost, besides which a PDF document doesn't have the same impact as a slide show. Impress has an export to SWF feature, but an ".SWF" is no more use than ".ODP". I have been hunting around for a free .SWF to .EXE converter but so far no luck. Even if there is one I don't know whether the Impress animations woud be retained. I found an .SWF to .AVI converter, but whoa, I've got better things to do, I've finished the slides now I just want to email them. Asking friends and family recipients to download and install OOo or OOo Lite(ish) is not a serious option. It rather takes the spontenaeity away from the Christmas/New Year slide show! Having spent longer than I would have wished trying to find a practical way of distributing my slide show, I now see only one practical solution: save it as Powerpoint .PPT (and maybe then open it in Powerpoint and then save it from there as a .PPS, Powerpoint show - effectively a read(show)-only .PPT. As someone who has recently re-kindled their interest in OOo and was well disposed I was disappointed to then find that, judging by this thread, after four years of consideration not only have the OOo team not provided a solution to what is IMO a show stopper, they still don't even 'get it'. If the response were "yes we understand the need, but because of the way OOo / Impress is structured we'd have to pretty well re-write all the Impress code and we don't have the resources", that I could understand. Come on guys, slide shows are a grea way of communicating with friends and family. Impress is a great way of producing slide shows. You just can't send the slides to anyone!!! Think of an OOo Impress viewer as a way of getting an OOo foothold on lots of PCs... 1. Receive an Impress slide show from a friend, with an Impress Viewer download link 2. Install the Impress Viewer and view the slide 3. The Impress Viewer politely informs the user that they can download OOo for free and create their own slides if they wish. One in every <n> such personal users is also an IT decision maker who has just got their first hands-on experience of OOo thanks to the Impress Viewer. Anyway for now my recipients with have to receive Powerpoint slides (although created in Impress). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
