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[Discuss] Installing StarOffice 5.2 on modern linux?



Yes, that's enormously better than what I got from the current LibreOffice
opening the original StarOffice file.

I wasn't aware that there were animations in the file, as I've never opened
it myself in StaOffice.



On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 3:33?PM Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> On 7/7/25 11:39 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> > Sure.
> >
> > The worst of them is from the CUPS meeting in April 2003. The
> > StarOffice source file is on the BLU server at
> >
> > https://blu.org/meetings/2003/04/cups_and_imaging_for_BLU.sdd
>
>
> The OpenOffice 1.1.2 that is included in Ubuntu 4.10, "Warty Warthog",
> seems to open that presentation just fine. There are some cosmetic
> problems, but I suspect they are due to a non-graphic artist creating
> the presentation and not Openoffice having a bug.
>
> There are a lot of export options: PDF and a zillion mostly image
> formats, including Flash and PICT!
>
> The PDF doesn't handle the animations well, it shows the starting state
> from before the content animates in.
>
>
> But the "Save as?" includes old Powerpoint. When I open in a recent
> LibreOffice the animations are flattened to the final slide state, but
> that seems okay. Actually, better than what I see on the old Openoffice:
> higher quality typefaces.
>
> I attach the resulting file. (I suppose John will see it but not the list.)
>
>
> Look useful?
>
>
> -kb, the Kent who could probably save-as a bunch of these.
>


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