Hi Nan. First lotus symphony is in Beta and is free and considering that its source is OOo source code it should remain free - they might charge for additional services though.
On 10/9/07, nan budh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > while on open office, recently i had an experience i d like to share. > Couple of my students made a presentation in power point, containing around > 50 photographs on each slide. Then they transferred it onto a laptop which > had open office installed. Now when the presentation opened in ooimpress.... > it was painfully slow. the transitions did not work at all!!! Ok - i use open office extensively - writer, calc and impress i have also used M$ orifice quite a lot (earlier - now i don't remember many things) But somethings: OOo is normally a bit slower off the blocks - if you stick to pure OOo formats the performance is good and often even faster When you try and access M$ powerpoints there is initally a drop in performance - slower, bigger file size etc - BUT it works well no problems and there should be no significant consistent drop is performance. That may be because of other factors - links within the presentation , machines specs etc. If you convert a M$ file to OOo format the performance speeds up - however vice versa is not so good (i.e. if you used an OOo file converted to M$ formats) In OOo i have used and upto 60 -70 high quality images - with a total file size of about 200 mb and that has worked perfectly. The presentations also have a whole lot of gimmicky stuff and everything works. The later versions of OOo even have the play video features and sound which is was missing. Recently i had the opportunnity to work on fresh instal of M$ office XP or something and i was shocked that many of the basic text animations were missing and needed an additional download - which obviously Finally there is the GIGO theory - M$ files have a lot of bloatware and garbage and OOo - though a lesser mortal - does not know how to cope and this does affect the performance - so if making a presentation under OOo do it from scratch it will make a big difference. regards ram *"Ramnarayan.K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote: > > > > On 10/8/07, nan budh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > is this package free? the beta version i mean. > > > Yes its free for those who register. > > Also its based on the open office suite source code > what ever reviews i have read do say that OOo users may want to stick to > OOo itself as a few key features have been dropped while attempting to make > it be slicker > > ram > > > Has anyone tried the new lotus office suite - symphony > > > > > > > > > http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa > > > > > > > > > IBM Lotus Symphony BETA > > > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > > ------------------------------ > Bollywood, fun, friendship, sports and more. You name it, we have > it.<http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_groups_1/*http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups> > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > >
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