I just opened this with Star Office 8 without a hitch. Star Office 8 is free from Google by the way using their excellent Google Pack http://pack.google.com/intl/en-gb/pack_installer_new.html?hl=en-gb&gl=uk&ciN um=11 Also exported it out successfully to PDF. I'm running Windows XP, so have all the usual MS True type fonts installed. I'm guessing that anyone trying Open Office from a Linux distribution would have problems. Free SUSE 10.3 (which I have as a dual boot on one of my machines) has the option to download and install the MS font set, so that should solve the problem. Not sure about other Linux flavours. Looks like John Vig used Arial for most of it anyway. Rob K -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-bounces@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces@febo.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Harris Sent: 10 December 2007 19:36 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] John Vig elected President of IEEE Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <001901c83b60$30880960$0800a8c0@pc52>, "Tom Van Baak" writes: > >> Right click and SaveAs this 7.4 MB PPT file to your PC: >> >> Quartz Resonator & Oscillator Tutorial >> http://www.ieee-uffc.org/freqcontrol/tutorials/vig3/vig3.ppt >> >> Then open the 298 page document with PowerPoint and >> print as "note pages". > > I wish somebody could make a pdf of that, I don't have (and don't > want!) access to Powerpoint[1]. Sure you do, it is called: "OpenOffice.org" ;-) -Chuck Harris _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

Star Office is a stable version of OpenOffice.org that has support from Sun. OpenOffice.org is the bleeding edge development version. OpenOffice.org appears to open it just fine, but when you look closely, you notice that most screens overlap their page numbers, and some table entries are larger than the space alloted. Rob Kimberley wrote: > I just opened this with Star Office 8 without a hitch. Star Office 8 is free > from Google by the way using their excellent Google Pack > http://pack.google.com/intl/en-gb/pack_installer_new.html?hl=en-gb&gl=uk&ciN > um=11 > > Also exported it out successfully to PDF. > > I'm running Windows XP, so have all the usual MS True type fonts installed. > I'm guessing that anyone trying Open Office from a Linux distribution would > have problems. Free SUSE 10.3 (which I have as a dual boot on one of my > machines) has the option to download and install the MS font set, so that > should solve the problem. Not sure about other Linux flavours. > > Looks like John Vig used Arial for most of it anyway. The problem is MS has all of their font sizes wrong. What they call a 12 pt is really smaller than a true 12 pt... [well, either MS has it wrong, or the rest of the world has it wrong.] -Chuck Harris