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holgerbrandl / opencards

A free flashcard learning application for PowerPoint and MarkDown files
http://opencards.info
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Does your app work with .odp files? #30

Open baimafeima opened 7 years ago

baimafeima commented 7 years ago

I prefer open standards instead of proprietary formats. Does your app work with .odp files and if not, are you planning on implementing this?

holgerbrandl commented 7 years ago

That's actually how I started it. See http://extensions.openoffice.org/de/project/opencards-free-flashcard-learning-extension-impress

However, I moved it away from it because progress in OpenOffice seemed very slow at the time.

OpenCards supports powerpoint and markdown files. The latter are totally open. But also powerpoint can be processed with many opensource tools these days.

Best, Holger

baimafeima commented 7 years ago

Thanks for your feedback. Many people have replaced OpenOffice with LibreOffice which is much more actively maintained. Is there any chance I can convince you to add support for .odp files again?

holgerbrandl commented 7 years ago

I would definitely do so, if there would be some java-library that would allow to read and render odp-files. There's http://www.jopendocument.org/ and http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/ but both seems no longer maintained. So I'm afraid there's no easy way into odp from java.

Alternatively you can also save documents as ppt in OpenOffice/LibreOffice.

baimafeima commented 7 years ago

I see. Unfortunately, I cannot help with this. In any case, I'd welcome a viable solution. It makes more sense to work with open standard files when already using an open source tool.