Posts tagged with "powerpoint"

Powerpoint corruption and lies Originally uploaded by mahnve.

I am so intensely mad right now. I have spent the afternoon working on a presentation I am to give at lunch time tomorrow.

To make it short: Powerpoint crashes, and takes my file with it in the fall. I can’t open it anymore.

I am redoing my presentation right now - in Keynote.

Coming up with the title of this entry cheered me up a little. You have to know your New Order to understand it.

The Oasis document format is really cool. My wife who is an architect (the original house building version, that is) - had created a presentation in PowerPoint with a lot of images, and the resulting file was 100M+.

I opened that file in OpenOffice2 and saved it as an .odt file. Then I unzipped it, bulk opened all images in the Gimp and changed their resolution. Finally I zipped it all up, an the presentation was now 8M and looking just the same. Ah, the power of openess.