Is LibreOffice truly cross-platform?
E.g. I hope to create an Impress presentation, complete with timings, images, videos etc. in LibreOffice for Mac and find the file working exactly the same in LibreOffice for Windows. That would be true cross-platform portability.
Thanks for all responses to date, much appreciated. To clarify the ambition:
As a small group of volunteers, with an almost equal mix of Mac and Windows home devices and each working from home, we seek a means of creating presentations, such as outlined above, exchanging the files, and PLAYING them reliably on each others computers and on our church's A/V system. We had hoped that installing LibreOffice on all the devices would enable this.
If this is not the case we may have to seek a different solution.
Any further ideas welcome!
Thanks.
This is what is supposed to happen but you must be aware that fonts are not universal. Those you select may not exist on the other platform.
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in addition to @ajlittoz and more generally: Of course applications use services of the respective operating system and hence everything served by the operating system may be different on different platforms (file picker dialogs, audio & video support and probably more ...). In that sense there is no such thing you called "truly cross-platform"
No it is not "truly cross-platform" in your terms. Specifically, "create an Impress presentation, complete with timings, images, videos etc. in LibreOffice for Mac" will not result in "the file working exactly the same in LibreOffice for Windows", because e.g. "videos" will depend on system codecs (see "Supported media formats" in help). Unfortunately, efforts to embed some media support into LibreOffice have not (yet) resulted in anything usable.