Here are links to the actual presentations:įor screenshots we'll start out with a pair of representativeĬomparisons so I can show slightly larger thumbnails: both of the ones Show that the 'click to edit the master subtitle' field doesn'tĭisappear during presentations, so I did those from presentation mode,īut I didn't want to go back to PPT to redo those.) When it came time for OpenOffice, I wanted to (If you're curious this was justįor expediency I took the PPT screenshots first and it was way faster Presentation mode, but in both cases it wouldn't make a difference,Īll the slides look the same both ways in both programs since thereĪre none of those ephemeral fields. The editing window and the Impress screenshots are taken from For the most part, the PowerPoint screenshots are taken from This gave six presentations, which are shown in the tableīelow. Used the 'format background' in the 'design' ribbon to set the.The background to solid red ( 'red' yes, this is really Right clicked the slide, choose 'format background', and set.Ignoring them doesn't help matters, and in fact hurts: the ephemeralįields don't load very well in Impress despite it supporting that (For the curious, leaving them present but Present ( 'titles') or selected both title fields and deleted I either typed something in for the two title fields that are.Presentation.) I then modified it along two axes: You don't modify the contents, they are invisible during the actual The title slide has a titleĪnd a subtitle text box, both of them 'ephemeral' in the sense that if (For those who only use OpenOffice, this consists I opened PowerPoint 2007 and let it createĪ default document. These tests are much simpler than the ones from Master slides), so I guess that's good news.] Presentation that Impress will render correctly (without editing the But at least it's now possible to make a PPTX Presentations that use the 'new' fancy shapes introduced in 2007 are Slides aren't the complete story see slide 13 as displayed Result they still look better under PowerPoint. Still a bit annoyed at the apparent lack of anti-aliasing, and as a Slides in this test are now rendered correctly, as shown below. Just released version 4.0 so I figured I'd give that a try.

I haven't updated this page in aĬouple years so I'm not sure when Impress improved, but LibreOffice

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