The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micro$oft go bankrupt?

[sdavmor]

Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 May 2009 16:02:23 Franz Waldmüller wrote:
>> Ashley Benton schrieb:
>>> Thanks I will try as yesterday my son try a Ubuntu presentation
>>> saved in ppt and when watched on Windows the pictures had
>>> disappeared and only the text remained,
>> If you inset pictures in impress with drag and drop they are only
>> linked into the presentation. Insert-Object-picture is better.
>> Check the preferences, too. When sending presentations use the
>> pdf-export. I'll try it your way and see how that works. I am
>> 
>>> sure that what is happening is due more to not knowing how to
>>> than to open office and any advices are welcome as I'd like to
>>> have my sons use Ubuntu more often but don't want them to have
>>> trouble at school for it neither.
>> Try to convince your school to use open standards.
> 
> Ah!  I think that you have it, Franz.  Linked pictures can only be
> accessed on the computer on which the presentation was made - it
> would not run any better on a Linux machine running OpenOffice.org.
> We hit that block - the first presentation my granddaughter made
> wouldn't run on my computer, so we had solved that one before ever
> she tried to run it on Powerpoint.
> 
> Lisi

[flashing lights]

Yes, that has to be it. Linked vs embedded. You only have to be bitten
by that once!
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