On 2011-11-15 23:13, Warren Kumari wrote: > On Nov 15, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Ray Bellis wrote: > >> On 15 Nov 2011, at 16:26, Bob Hinden wrote: >> >>> +1 >> The Datatracker does officially support PPTX, so I don't believe it's >> unreasonable to use it. If you don't like that policy, I'm not sure where >> you would take that up.
I missed the discussion of that change. >> It also hadn't occurred to me that people might actually prefer PPT over the >> more open PPTX format. I haven't fallen for the notion that OOXML is open. I saw too much of that particular sausage been forced through the ISO sausage machine. It's just a pragmatic issue for me - PPT was successfully reverse engineered many years ago. I will update my OpenOffice to see if it really handles PPTX properly, when I get a chance. >> I've also noticed that you can get problems when exporting to PDF using >> Office for Mac 2008. It mangles ligatures when you copy&paste the PDF >> contents into something >> else. > > > Yes… This part is REALLY annoying… > > Wanting to be a good jabber scribe, I try insert the slide titles into the > jabber room so that folk can follow along at home…. > > Cutting and pasting from PDFs exported by Office (including on Windows) gives > me things like: "Algorithm*MigraFon*Documents*" I don't know the Mac situation, but this isn't an uncommon class of problem; I see it quite often in random PDF documents. Nothing is perfect. One approach is to "print" the document via a virtual PostScript printer to a .ps file and then convert the .ps to .pdf using ghostscript. That usually seems to produce sane PDF. > Sure, I can type / retype the slide tutles, but I tpye raelly pooorly... ;-) Brian _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
