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Re: [idn] Powerpoint
- To: "Adam M. Costello" <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>
- Subject: Re: [idn] Powerpoint
- From: Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:54:07 -0600
- Cc: idn working group <idn@ops.ietf.org>
- Delivery-date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 14:53:18 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 04:33 PM 3/22/2001, Adam M. Costello wrote:
>Does Powerpoint allow presentations to be saved in an open format, like
>PDF? (Or PostScript, though I have yet to see correct PostScript come
>out of any Microsoft application. I heard that there's a printer driver
>option that allows you to "optimize for portability", but apparently
>very few people know about it.)
PDF is not an open format.
Neither is GIF, which is what the presentation would have to use if the
data were characterized as an HTML web page.
In reality, neither is Postscript.
At any rate there are free powerpoint viewers.
d/
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