On Tuesday 13 July 2010 05:24:27 Pratik Anand wrote: > @steve > > I am referring to the much-longed arrow key navigation in normal > mode (not in presentation mode). Why to go for pgup/pgdown for it. > > And, the design and orientation change issue, I am referring to, is > not only limited to pptx but in office 2003 formats too.... > What kind of document specification you want?
M$office does not publish specifications without an NDA, which amongst other things claims Patent rights on all sorts of rubbish. When you read an expalnation of a patented technology (well actually anything abouta patented technology) you are debarred from implementing that technology and are liable to several times higher liabilities as a deliberate infringement. So think very carefully before reading an M$ spec - you will be barred from using your brians on those parts of the tech. > i have been involved in making more and more ppl in my college to > use OO than going for pirated MS Office (or asking themm to shift > to Linux because OO exists), So, these are some of the weak points > of OO I have found myself. Once college gets open, I can give you a > much bigger list based on large user experience. But I am not much > worrying about it as OO ppl are doing an impressive job of > improving the software but not implementing a simple feature which > saves lots of time is a strange thing (read above). Afaik you can simply reassign shortcut keys anyway. Regarding imitation of M$ formatting, M$ has not been able to document their rubbish for doc files, even when faced with the ignominy of being discarded as a standard, on the grounds of ERRONEOUS and INSUFFICIENT DOCUMENTATION . Instead they choose to go on global manupilation and mud slinging spree (including calling Prof. Pathak of IIT biased). This after massive efforts by very many pragmatists to actually help M$ identify and ironout the shortcomings. As a final parting kick to all their supporters they have abandoned their own ECMA standard - no further improvements or bug fixes. Moral of the story: never waste your resources on anything M$, your efforts will be relgated to the scrap heap. As an aside there was this crazy announcement by M$ about a patented battery tech which can be plugged both ways. Ease of use they called it. Hope they stick to mucking about in software. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
