> Where I work, we've used PowerPoint as a Poor Man's CAD to make assembly
> instructions for the factory. The "new and improved" PowerPoint 97 won't
> print a lot of the old files from PowerPoint versions 3 and 4. We get pages
> with only random pieces of the picture.
>
> I've been using StarImpress to edit and print those old documents, and it
> works without a hitch. I've noticed a nasty tendancy of PowerPoint 97 to move
> graphics around. Line images mutate, a very bad thing, and another reason why
> we ported a lot of those documents over to AutoCAD and Visio (versions 4 and
> 5, before it got assimilated into the M$ cube).
Have you tried Dia ( http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/ )?
I've found it useful for those types of things.
Levi
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