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 way to do

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 (usually

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 and

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

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 [ or

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: 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 deprecating

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 PowerPoint?

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 deprecating

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 my

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

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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

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 into pdf

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

2007-05-16 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

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

2007-05-16 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

can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-15 Thread Serena Cantor
Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food Drink QA. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396545367 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

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]

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 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