Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-06-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:33:48PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:04:07 +0200 > Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Quite the opposite: latex gives you exact positioning of text and > > images, ppt does not. > > > > I'd love to hear about a (relatively) easy

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-06-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:04:07 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Micha Feigin wrote: > > The downside with the latex option is videos open in an external window and > > for better or worse you have less support for transitions

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha Feigin wrote: > The downside with the latex option is videos open in an external window and > for > better or worse you have less support for transitions (usually better because > they tend to distract the crowd) and exact positioning of text an

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-30 Thread salahuddin pasha
On 5/20/07, Jhair Tocancipa Triana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Serena Cantor writes: > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? I would recommend foiltex + pdflatex. -- --Jhair http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html -- --salahuddin66 salahuddin66.blogspot.com sal

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-19 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Serena Cantor writes: > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? I would recommend foiltex + pdflatex. -- --Jhair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-18 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 5/17/07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:26:23 -0400 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:46PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? > Lots of folks create a presention in tex [

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:26:23 -0400 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:46PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? > Lots of folks create a presention in tex [ or similar markup languages] > and then turn them int

[Fwd: Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?]

2007-05-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-05-17, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Serena Cantor wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? Openoffice.org has Impress, which is probably what you're lo

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:46PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? Lots of folks create a presention in tex [ or similar markup languages] and then turn them into pdf file or to html/javascript. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-17 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-17, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> That would be great news, but why do you have that impression? >> Powerpoint is still the standard at my school and at any conferences I >> have attended in the last year. > > OpenOffice's format is the only format recognized by many of

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 04:30 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Serena Cantor wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? > > Openoffice.org has Impress, which is probably what you're looking for. > It's depre

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Tyler Smith wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On 2007-05-17, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Serena Cantor wrote in Article >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to >> gmane.linux.debian.user: >> >>> Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoin

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-17 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-17, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serena Cantor wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > >> Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? > > Openoffice.org has Impress, which is probably what you're looking for. > It's deprecat

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Serena Cantor wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? Openoffice.org has Impress, which is probably what you're looking for. It's deprecating Powerpoint at this point. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP

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 present

(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 >

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-15 Thread Amy Templeton
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 presen

RE: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-15 Thread Yasar Sarcan
Openfice Impress -Original Message- From: Serena Cantor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:33 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: can you recommend any open source presentation tool? Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? __

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-15 Thread Julian De Marchi
Serena Cantor wrote: Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? Look at the openoffice. It has what you are after. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]