Alternate method (was Re: Presentation software)
The nearest resembling Power Point would surely be
Star Office. If you are using your own system for
presentation this is quite good enough.
The problem which I have faced is not in actually
preparing the presentation, but during the time of
delivery of the presentation at external facilities
(where I tour for lectures/ seminars/ talks etc).
Most institutions cater for projection systems and
allied facilities typically configured on Windows
based systems (for the predominant .ppt crowd) and
that too on differing versions of Win thus making
version compatibility of the .ppt file an issue.
To keep such presentations completely system inde-
pendent, of late I have started using plain HTML.
Graphic images are edited through gimp and linked.
Clicking a GIF arrow on each screen brings up the
next "slide" like in a .ppt presentation (without
animations though). Using frames, effects can be
created which cannot be done in .ppt! You can also
use any colour or GIF for a background as in .ppt.
If you are not conversant with HTML, any wp which
can save in HTML like Abiword or Word Perfect is
more than enough. Netscape composer is suitable
as well. In all of these Fonts, colors, bullets,
tables etc can be done in a WYSIWYG environment.
Works quite well. The zip file that I carry with
me is definitely more compact than corresponding
ppt presentation of the same thing.
The only "drawback" is the frame of the browser
hanging around when the presentation is made. In
Windows there is a program called HTML2EXE which
converts HTMLs to stand alone EXE (thus eliminting
browser requirements). Surely, if this system of
HTML presentations becomes more popular, somebody
would come up with a similar thing for Linux some
day !
Posting it to the list to generate a concensus for
non-proprietary computing (regarding which all of
us are aware) ... and with the hope that somebody
with programming skills capable of taking on such
a project is listening !
USM Bish
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 04:29:45PM +0100, Helgi Örn wrote:
> StarOffice perhaps?
> I installed it on my potato and it runs very well so far.
>
> Helgi Örn
>
> "Thomas R. Shannon" wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking for a graphics presentation progam similar to Power Point.
> > It has to be able to work in a full-screen slide mode and be able too
> > insert eps graphics files. The ability to directly insert wmf files
> > would certainly be a plus.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> > --
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