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andyprough
Thank you for the LibreOffice suggestion.
I have LibreOffice 7.0.4-4 on 32 bit and 64 bit machines. This is the latest in antix repos.Are you using an old version of antiX? I have 7.4.3.2 on my antiX machines. Be sure to use the antiX PackageInstaller program, and not just apt on the command line for installing the latest LO. apt is probably grabbing some severely outdated package from Debian stable.
DaveW
andyprough,
The Package Manager program (Synaptic) was showing 7.0.4-4 as most recent.
Following your advice, to use the Package Installer to install the latest version, I now have 7.4.4.4 (on the 64 bit machine).
Unfortunately, LibreOffice still does not like the SoftMaker Presentation files. (Therefore, update of the 32 bit machine can wait.)
But it was worth a try.
Thank you.andyprough
Unfortunately, LibreOffice still does not like the SoftMaker Presentation files.
Oh, that’s too bad. Well, if you want to try OpenOffice, I made a 32-bit AppImage called “OpenOfficex86.AppImage” on this page: https://archive.org/download/open-office
I made that a couple months ago for antiX users to have a lightweight office suite (lighter than LO) for their old 32-bit machines. With the AppImage you don’t have to uninstall LO before trying it (OOo and LO refuse to co-exist). It seems to work well for the users who tried it on 32-bit antiX, including on my 32-bit machines. Maybe it would have some way of opening those files, you never know.
andyprough,
Your OpenOffice appimage does much better than LibreOffice.
OpenOffice will not read the SoftMaker PRD files any better than L.O.
However, most of the PRD files were previously exported to PowerPoint (PPT) files with my old Softmaker Office program.OpenOffice plays the PPT slideshows with very few glitches (which can probably be corrected with minor editing).
LibreOffice starts the same slideshows okay, but text is sometimes misaligned, and most files get hung-up before the show is done.Thank you for sharing this. Hopefully, it will do what is needed.
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user2022
Hi, DaveW!
> FreeOffice 2016
There is ROSA Linux distributive.
In 2016 year ROSA and SoftMaker was in cooperation.
And ROSA repo has FreeOffice-2016 with not required key
ROSA use RPM-package, debian-family use DEB-package
But you can install ‘alien’ convertor
download
https://mirror.yandex.ru/rosa/rosa2016.1/repository/i586/non-free/release/softmaker-freeoffice-2016-759.2-rosa2016.1.i586.rpm
from repo
https://mirror.yandex.ru/rosa/rosa2016.1/repository/i586/non-free/release/
and convert to deb-package
alien -d softmaker-freeoffice-2016-759.2-rosa2016.1.i586.rpm
And install DEB-package…user2022,
I don’t know how you found that file, but your suggestion worked perfectly!
You answered the original question (where to find the file), and found one that requires no key!Thank you… and everyone who pondered my problem. It is now solved.
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