Reply to post: Re: Error during Transmogrification. Insert despair to continue.

Oh dear, Microsoft: UK.gov signs deal with LibreOffice

Fred Dibnah
FAIL

Re: Error during Transmogrification. Insert despair to continue.

The Task: Convert some PPTX presentations to PDFs, as slides + notes.

1. On work XP machine with MSO 2003, MSO file converter, and Acrobat 7. File opened OK, but when printing to AdobePDF 'printer' some of the notes came out as square blocks instead of text. Fiddled with installed fonts to no avail.

2. Saved file as PPT. Same result.

3. On my own PC with MSO 2003, MSO file converter, and Acrobat 7. Same result.

4. On my own PC with Open Office (can't recall which version). PPTX opened and printed to AdobePDF just fine.

I've used Open Office ever since. Now jumping to Linux as well, due to W10 & W7 'telemetry' issue.

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