Does your app work with .odp files?

[baimafeima]

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]

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]

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]

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 There's http://www.jopendocument.org/ and http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/ but both seems no longer maintained.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]

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.