Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 09:54, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. From other responses you'll see there are quite a number of options. I guess you need to try a few to see which best suits what you have in mind. I suggest you also take a look at xnview, at the very least it seems to be resource conservative. In addition it will handle many, many graphical formats, but does not itself generate graphics. You need something like xfig or a paint program (or something else with which I probably have no experience) to do that. I also find xv handy for cropping and resizing. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Sunday, 5 October 2003 at 1:23:50 +0100, Rus Foster wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. How about saving it as HTML then using netscape? On Saturday, 4 October 2003 at 21:34:43 -0400, Todd Stephens wrote: On Saturday 04 October 2003 08:23 pm, Rus Foster wrote: How about saving it as HTML then using netscape? I think he wanted something that /wasn't/ a resource hog :-) Seriously, if you have KDE installed (which you probably don't if you are worried about system resources) there is KPresenter. The HTML suggestion is a very valid one though, and there is a port for converting PowerPoint to html in /usr/ports/textproc/xlhtml but I've never tried it. There are a few in the 'misc' ports. Look for MagicPoint or Pointless. I think Pointless uses OpenGL, so you might not want that one either. There is another in /usr/ports/multimedia/slideshow that is supposedly very powerful. I have only glanced at it. I'd be very interested to hear from people who are picky, who have actually used any of these packages, and who can tell me how to use them well. (Amongst other things, this is a roundabout way of saying that I don't know anything good myself). My issues are: - OpenOffice: a real pig to work with. I also have font problems which I'm sure I could fix if I found it worth the trouble, but after preparing a presentation with other people who didn't have the font problems, I don't think it's worth it. OpenOffice is really a Microsoft clone, and it doesn't fit well into UNIX. - MagicPoint: something to make the GUI approach look good. Fonts are rough, features were pretty minimal when I tried it, and the syntax blows my mind. I haven't tried the others. I need something that will interface with UNIX text files, and I suspect that MagicPoint's the only choice there. Personally, I use groff and ghostscript to create the slides in PDF form (ghostview has a helper application called ps2pdf to create the PDF), and then I use acroread to display them. It works OK, but acroread is very slow, and I'd be happy to find something better. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
Hi, give the Latex Prosper Package a try (you have to fetch it separately). With it you can create pdf files. These you can present using xpdf -fullscreen (I think xpdf doesn't need too much ressources ;-)) Peschmä Am Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:24:33 +0200 schrieb Gabriel Striewe: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. Thanks for any hints Gabriel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:24:33AM +0200, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. Thanks for any hints What about OperaShow? http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/operashow/ mf -- What do you care what other people think? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Sunday 05 October 2003 02:56 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'd be very interested to hear from people who are picky, who have actually used any of these packages, and who can tell me how to use them well. (Amongst other things, this is a roundabout way of saying that I don't know anything good myself). Out of the applications I mentioned the only one I have done any real work on was KPresenter. It could certainly be more... (better?) ... but it was sufficient for my needs. It lacks animation and is probably every bit the PowerPoint clone that OpenOffice is. I stay away from OpenOffice as much as possible because it is such a resource pig. I haven't tried the others. I need something that will interface with UNIX text files, and I suspect that MagicPoint's the only choice there. Slideshow seems like an impressive application to me from looking at the web site http://www.alobbs.com/slideshow. It has an option to create ASCII Slides, so I don't know if that means it can read from a text file or not. I might try it out just to see, but I am trying to cut back on what I am installing these days. The ports system almost makes it *too* easy to install things and I've gone a little crazy with it lately. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Sunday 05 October 2003 09:22 am, Todd Stephens wrote: Slideshow seems like an impressive application to me from looking at the web site http://www.alobbs.com/slideshow. It has an option to create ASCII Slides, so I don't know if that means it can read from a text file or not. I might try it out just to see, but I am trying to cut back on what I am installing these days. The ports system almost makes it *too* easy to install things and I've gone a little crazy with it lately. Follow up to this. Slideshow is indeed a very powerful presentation program. The problem lies in figuring out how to use it. It appears to me that you have to write the slides in XML, then program the actual slideshow in Python, since slideshow is apparently a Python module. The 'example' slideshow that is installed doesn't really tell me much, and the docs installed simply refer you to the sample slideshow. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:16:07AM +0200, Simon Rutishauser wrote: Hi, give the Latex Prosper Package a try (you have to fetch it separately). With it you can create pdf files. These you can present using xpdf -fullscreen (I think xpdf doesn't need too much ressources ;-)) Peschmä I also recommend Prosper with LaTeX. It looks great - I have some up at http://www.rospa.ca/documents/ under Presentations if anyone would like to take a look. It presents well under acroread in full-screen mode. xpdf -fullscreen also works well, though the slide transition effects are lost (most likely considered a feature ;-) ). -T -- Page 356: Part of the charm of Unix is, all of a sudden, having a great insight and saying to yourself, So THAT's why they did it that way. - Harley Hahn, _The Unix Companion_ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
Am Sun, 05 Oct 2003 08:57:10 -0600 schrieb Tillman Hodgson: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:16:07AM +0200, Simon Rutishauser wrote: Hi, give the Latex Prosper Package a try (you have to fetch it separately). With it you can create pdf files. These you can present using xpdf -fullscreen (I think xpdf doesn't need too much ressources ;-)) Peschmä I also recommend Prosper with LaTeX. It looks great - I have some up at http://www.rospa.ca/documents/ under Presentations if anyone would like to take a look. It presents well under acroread in full-screen mode. xpdf -fullscreen also works well, though the slide transition effects are lost (most likely considered a feature ;-) ). Well, the transition effects look ugly and always the same. Thus I don't use them ;-) Anyway Acrobat Reader doesn't work properly on my system so I don't use it. And it needs plenty of ressources... Peschmä ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 13:26:31 +0200, Michal F. Hanula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:24:33AM +0200, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. What about OperaShow? http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/operashow/ A very good suggestion, as the pages can be written in HTML with CSS to change the presentation as appropriate when displaying on a website or as a series of slides. The other benefit is when you are finished you can instantly put it on the web. TjL -- Tim Tracey Ethan http://tntluoma.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Sunday 05 October 2003 07:26 am, Michal F. Hanula wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:24:33AM +0200, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. Thanks for any hints What about OperaShow? http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/operashow/ mf Assuming one knows how to author an html document. Is this part of the Opera port? On the web page is says it is part of Opera for Windows, but does not mention it being part of Opera for Linux or otherwise. It is an interesting idea though. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:21:43PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote: What about OperaShow? http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/operashow/ Assuming one knows how to author an html document. Is this part of the Opera port? On the web page is says it is part of Opera for Windows, but does not mention it being part of Opera for Linux or otherwise. It is an interesting idea though. It does work with native FreeBSD port at least since 6.11. mf -- What do you care what other people think? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
Hello! I found this website with information on LaTeX- and HTML-based screen presentation tools. http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html I hope this is any helpful. Gabriel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. Thanks for any hints Gabriel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. How about saving it as HTML then using netscape? Rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Dontations made to Debian, FreeBSD t: +44 7919 373537 | and Slackware t: 1-888-327-6330 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Saturday 04 October 2003 08:23 pm, Rus Foster wrote: How about saving it as HTML then using netscape? I think he wanted something that /wasn't/ a resource hog :-) Seriously, if you have KDE installed (which you probably don't if you are worried about system resources) there is KPresenter. The HTML suggestion is a very valid one though, and there is a port for converting PowerPoint to html in /usr/ports/textproc/xlhtml but I've never tried it. There are a few in the 'misc' ports. Look for MagicPoint or Pointless. I think Pointless uses OpenGL, so you might not want that one either. There is another in /usr/ports/multimedia/slideshow that is supposedly very powerful. I have only glanced at it. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
