Re: Plagued by PPTX again

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todd glassey wrote:
> 
> Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> >
> > Should the system reject PPTX files ? If people can't read them, why
> > are we accepting them ?

I would appreciate if that datatracker simply rejected PPTX on upload.

It is several mangnitudes more efficient to have the uploaded simply
select a different option on save rather than to bother dozens of
consumers with having to spend hours and/or $$ to obtain a computing
environment that is capable of visualizing PPTX.


> 
> Because the world has evolved since Office v0 was released unlike the IETF.
> 
> PPTX is Office 2007 format and there are formal readers and format API's 
> for office so that this is a no brainer.
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=6

And where is the download URL for an officially *FREE* license
of Microsoft Windows that is a prerequisite for this player?


While I do have OpenOffice on about half of my dozen computing environments,
none of them is sufficiently "new" to process PPTX.  I'm a developer
and need my time for work, rather than constantly wrangling of software
updates of software that I hardly use myself, like OpenOffice.


-Martin
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