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Hi haakoo, Despite my teaching skills ;-), I doubt I can convince an entire community to abandon PPT immediately, although I agree that this can be done at the team/lab level. Yes, one can copy parts of a PDF, but then it is uneditable... or the formatting is lost, which may not be the initial intention.

Hi fde101 and GarryP, As a scientist, I have used Quark XPress, InDesign and now I am following the trend towards Affinity Publisher to produce thousands of "Powerpoint" presentations. For me, presenting from a PDF is simply ideal and I personally do not need anything more for my own presentations. The only limitation to this practice is that many colleagues I work with will never use or share my content if I am not able to generate a PPT file from which they can copy slides. This is why I liked John-W's suggestion. LEB

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Hi Stefan, My own process using Affinity Publisher: - either export the PPT to PDF and open the file, or just cut and paste content, - unzip the PPTX file (sic), delete all except the ppt/media folder. - replace integrated images by links to the images inside this folder. Hope this helps, LEb

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Hi all, Since the first edition of Indesign and switching to Affinity Publisher when the beta was released, I have been using them to generate my presentations quasi exclusively. And I love it! I am making typically 1 new presentation a week and am fond of the way these software allow a far better use of styles, fine image placement, still visual effects. I am not using any animation (but often find them more distracting than useful). I am exporting to PDF and this is always ok where I have to talk. Of course it would be even simpler if Publisher: - had a way to switch directly to presentation view mode for tests rather than the sequence discussed in other posts, - could export to PPT files - could import movies ... but it is already great as it is and I never regret PowerPoint. LEb

Hi garrettm30, Yes this is exactly what I meant:

Hi, Using Publisher, under the "Studio" on Paragraphs [FR : paragraphe], spacings are indicated wrongly with a colon instead of a comma such as in: [20;4 pt] or [1;5] which is very confusing. LB

Le problème est de nouveau présent avec la 1.7.2 !