On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:26:23 -0400
Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:46PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote:
> > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint?
> Lots of folks create a presention in tex [ or similar markup languages]
> and then turn them into pdf file or to html/javascript.
>
With the advantage that the presentation is in pdf so you know that it will
appear properly on any machine and only requires pdf viewer to display the
presentation.
It does help to use some presentation class though. My favourite is beamer
although there is also prosper and texpower I'm aware of and probably a bunch
of others.
Personally, I use lyx to edit the presentation and it has support for beamer
(including a template).
ooimpress is also nice and can export to pdf.
The downside with the latex option is videos open in an external window and for
better or worse you have less support for transitions (usually better because
they tend to distract the crowd) and exact positioning of text and images
(usually makes you make better presentations).