On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:34:53 -0600 Steven Dayton <daytonmeister at gmail.com> dijo:
>As others have said use PDF for your presentation. Besides Adobe >Reader there are several other PDF readers out there that are fast >downloads and fast installs that can be used to display simple PDFs. > >If you wanted to add some punch to the presentation and you have >access to Acrobat 9 Professional you can add movie clips and Flash >elements to the PDF presentation. Maybe you are wanting to use open >source software which excludes expensive Acrobat but I thought I would >just mention the possibilities. > >Good luck. > >StevenD > > >On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:08 AM, peter linnell <plinnell at scribus.info> >wrote: >> >> On 9/29/10 7:54 AM, a.l.e wrote: >>> >>> hi john jason, >>> >>> >>>> But after downloading it I discovered that (evidently) OOo Impress >>>> cannot place any vector files. In the Insert Picture menu the only >>>> formats listed are raster image formats. But I know I can place >>>> vector images in Writer documents, so now I'm off to OOo mailing >>>> list to see if there is some library or another missing from my >>>> OOo 3.1. It doesn't make any sense that I cannot place vector >>>> images in Impress. >>> >>> you may use scribus to create your presentations... >>> >>> iirc, it can place vector files. >>> >>> ciao >>> a.l.e >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> scribus mailing list >>> scribus at lists.scribus.info >>> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> >> I second this... I've not done a presentation in anything but >> Scribus for years. >> >> You can include transition effects etc in PDF. >> >> http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=pdfexport4 >> >> Seeing my colleagues here struggle with Office/OpenOffice >> "helpfully" changing the layout depending on the machine which opens >> the files. >> >> Once in PDF format the presentation displays exactly the same. I do >> recommend using Adobe Reader for the demo/presentation. OK, y'all are convincing me to give Scribus and PDF a try for the presentation. But that's only because Impress is starting to frustrate me.
