Having just recently bought an LCD projector, I was in the process of putting together a presentation.
I was going to use Presentation in OpenOffice, but was dissatisfied with the quality of the fonts, color transitions, and well as the chronic hassle with the very structured formats for the slides. I then tried making HTML, and again not happy with the font-handling capabilities of Mozilla or Mozilla Firebird. Just for the heck of it, I decided to try out Scribus, then export to PDF, then use acroread ---> it looks GREAT! Acroread has all the basic features you need for a presentation, with full screen views, settings for the display (automatic or by mouse click), antialiasing. Color gradients are superb. (And transitions that just as cheesy/visually distracting as they are in Presentation or PowerPoint) I think this brings up a whole new arena for using Scribus, and you also automatically have printing/publishing capabilities either in Scribus or acroread for printing a syllabus. I haven't tried some of the clickable features of PDFs yet, but that's another possibility. Gregory Pittman Louisville, KY
