On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:21:47AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote (wyy sez):
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:17:18PM +0800, neuroticimbecile wrote:
>
> > > If it is so good and it is free, how come people do not use it on
> > > their office PCs and their notebooks? I think the problem here
> > > is inertia. People have been using Word, Excel and Powerpoint on
> > > Windows PCs, which by the way are excellent software, that it takes
>
> Many of my teachers <cough/> use Word documents and Powerpoint slides exclusively. I
>can't really complain - I'm just a single student, hardly enough to convince them to
>use PDFs instead - but it does make life a little bit hard.
>
> I use LaTeX for my lab reports, gnuplot for my graphs, and mgp for my presentations
>(sometimes LaTeX or HTML, too). I try to be as cross-platform as possible, but living
>in a Windows world can be difficult if other people don't even consider other
>platforms. ;)
>
hehehe.
> Still waiting for a small, command-line tool that can convert PPTs to a series of
>PNGs or HTMLs...
>
hmmm. powerpoint does have a feature that exports to HTML.... btw, i use
Acrobat 4 (expensive proprietary software) to convert some ppt slides to
pdf. hehehe.
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