Good question. I would also ask: why do people insist on using animations, ugly fonts, text that blends in with the background? why do they insist on sending Word documents as e-mail attachments when they just contain plain text? or sending files in difficult formats (.pub...)?<br><br>No original answers here. I guess these people just do what they're used to or what they've been shown. I imagine (but might be wrong) that many people using OpenLP are reasonably technically-minded. They might not know how to program but they understand roughly what's going on in the background and why things work the way they do. In our case, most of the people who preach or organise worship or prepare announcements to be displayed are able to use their computer once they've been shown how but don't think critically about the methods they use. I suspect there would be quite a lot of resistance to moving away from Powerpoint: using new software, especially Photoshop or GIMP would be too much of a challenge. I also suspect that a lot of slides that we see are based on ones borrowed from elsewhere, at least the design, if not part of the content.<br><br>Powerpoint and Impress allow you to edit and save the file more easily than any graphic software. We can also fix typos and errors at the last minute or even live. This shouldn't be necessary but in practice it happens.<br><br>If themes are set up and used correctly, the presentations from Powerpoint (and perhaps Impress) can look amazing. However, getting a presentation or an image to look good is quite challenging. It's easy for me to be critical about other people's slides but even if my criticism is justified I am unable to create a decent looking presentation myself. Using images will solve some of the technical issues but might make it more difficult to make slides that look good (minus the animations).<br><br>I believe some people export their presentations as images and then import them into OpenLP.<br><br>It would be nice to have native OpenLP slides for our sermons and pre-service notices, but it's not really designed for that at the moment. With better support for images (background and foreground), the ability to import/export custom slides, and maybe the possibility to create slides outside of OpenLP (eg. simple slide editor or text file format), this might be an option.<br><br>I personally feel that slides for a sermon should only consist of Scripture, which OpenLP can do very easily. Nothing wrong with the occasional illustration but I generally find that typical slides are distracting and don't bring much to the words being spoken.<br><br>Sorry, must stop procrastinating. Would be interested to hear from others.<br>