On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 03:34, Gregory Pittman wrote: > 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
Gregory Thanks for sharing that. That sounds like a great idea. I've been frustrated that Open Office presentation program has so little eye candy....and I can't find any tools / instructions for creating any..though I admit I have not looked in the past 2-3 months. --
