2008/7/14 Radoslav Dejanović <>:
> David Gerard wrote:
>> What's the standard for .odp files? Presentations do in fact require
>> the elements to stay in a particular place to some degree for
>> interoperability between apps to be meaningful for such files. If an
>> .odp created in OOo looks like rubbish in KOffice or the other way
>> around, that's completely missing the point of "presentation."
> I think you're right about odp files - presentation is in their core.
> That's one more problem to solve. :) What I was thinking all along are
> text documents and spreadsheets. Presentations do have that issue of
> aligning elements to the right places. However, I still don't think they
> have to be "pixel perfect" - just close enough. But then, what "close
> enough" should be?
Surely there must be working definitions of this that the implementors
use. There are implementors on this list - if they could help, that
would be most useful.
- d.