Re: OpenOffice Impress

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From: Phil!Gregory
Subject: Re: OpenOffice Impress
Date: 19:27 on 28 Dec 2006
* Hakim Cassimally <hakim.cassimally@xxxxx.xxx> [2006-12-21 19:04 +0100]:
> This clever default didn't quite work for me, as I was in the rather
> unusual situation of preparing a presentation on one computer and
> presenting on another (silly of me really).  Of course, rather than
> storing confusing relative filenames, OOo had hard coded the links to
> the full path.

I recently had to deal with the exact same problem in PowerPoint;
non-embeddable files are referenced by absolute pathnames, including drive
letters.  This yeilds a similar level of nonportability for presentations.

Fortunately for me, search-and-replace on the path fixed the file without
corrupting it, so OOo is still more hateful.

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