Re: (solved, THANK Amy Templeton/Julian De Marchi/Yasar Sarcan) Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-15 Thread Amy Templeton
Serena Cantor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Amy Templeton wrote:
> > [...] if you have to present on a computer that hasn't yet
> > figured out how to deal with OpenOffice, you can save your
> > presentation as a PDF presentation and use (PDF reader of
> > choice)'s fullscreen mode to give a presentation [...]
> Thanks! I'll try pdf.

Cool. Just FYI, I don't mean to imply *not* to save in OpenOffice's
native format--if you *just* save as PDF you may not be easily able
to get back to it and alter it later on. Just something to keep in
mind :-) .

Amy

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(solved, THANK Amy Templeton/Julian De Marchi/Yasar Sarcan) Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-15 Thread Serena Cantor
Thanks! I'll try pdf.


--- Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint?
> 
> OpenOffice Impress is that same kind of point-and-click
> presentation-making tool, and if you have to present on a computer
> that hasn't yet figured out how to deal with OpenOffice, you can
> save your presentation as a PDF presentation and use (PDF reader of
> choice)'s fullscreen mode to give a presentation, or even save as
> (*shudder*) MS-Powerpoint if absolutely necessary.
> 
> If you're less into the point-and-click thing, LaTeX has a markup
> mode called Beamer that I think is pretty awesome for creating
> really nice-looking PDF presentations. If you don't know what I'm
> talking about, don't worry about it; it's probably not worth
> learning a whole new way of doing things unless you're a closet
> keyboard-only person.
> 
> Good luck with your presentation(s)!
> 
> Amy
> 
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