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File format
Authored by: alunapr on Jan 11, '03 07:10:09AM

I also was very excited when I saw this. I would be very happy to dump PP, but others in my company use windoze, so I am relieved that they have put both import and export there, as well as pdf. If I write the whole thing, I would export as pdf, which is what we use for presentation at the moment anyway, but for collaborating I need the import/export.

There is one other question, though: what is the file format? I thought I saw a suggestion that it was XML-based? One problem with powerpoint for distributed development is that it would go into a Perforce repository, and this works best for text documents, since it need only store the diffs, and it is easy to see what the differences are if two people make changes at the same time. With a binary format, such as ppt or pdf, you can't do that.



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File format
Authored by: hagbard on Jan 11, '03 07:47:08AM

check on http://www.macslash.org/, someone posted what he found about the file format:
http://macmerc.com/
(I found the link on macslash which deserves being quoted)



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