Imported equations from Powerpoint

[benwei]

Hello,
I'm having some trouble with imported equations from Powerpoint documents. I have a PowerPoint document, created in PowerPoint 2003, and I'm trying to open it in Impress. Most things translate over fine, but the equations look like they have all the text bunched up in the lefthand corner (example of what I'm talking about here). When I double click on the equations, however, a new window opens and they render perfectly (example here, same exact equation as before).

Why are the equations not rendering correctly in the slides themselves?

Thanks,
Ben

(By the way, this is with NeoOffice/J, but I've had the same problem on the most recent OOo stable version on Linux also)[/img][/url]

[yorick]

[benwei]

Hi Yo,

Thanks for the suggestion about using the beta version, that was able to open the file and the equations rendered fine. It also fixed several smaller issues with the presentation.

I am aware of the fact that Microsoft's document formats are proprietary, and I did not mean the question in a demanding way at all. Since the equation was able to render perfectly in OOo when I viewed it alone, I figured the OOo could understand it, but was just having trouble displaying it in the context of the slide, which seemed odd, and I wanted to be sure it wasn't a configuration problem of some kind.

Anyway, thanks for the help!
Ben

[yorick]