David Cantrell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:31:29PM -0400, Federico Lucifredi wrote: > >> True, but I have not yet done a single animated slide in my life. >> Bullets, code and occasionally pictures slapped on a background are all >> I need. If I can start writing my slides in text templates, my personal >> satisfaction with not having to ever look at Powerpoint or OO junk would >> be great. > > Am I a terrible heretic for quite liking Powerpoint? I think it's a > great tool, that is usually horribly abused. And yes, I've used > animation in my slides. Occasionally. Carefully.
I think Powerpoint is the best of the crop, actually (Keynote may be as good, but I just started using it). The bit I hate is the use of "yet another format", so I thend to simply distribute PDFs... which are not conducive to animations :) I personally have given a presentation on Powerpoint to a room full of F/OSS zealots, explaining that I was going to use the best tool for the job, not the "most Free". 90% of people understood, others came to me later to explain I could use markup to build HTML slides... missing the point entirely :) So the reason why I like the idea of these systems based on XUL is that they are web-friendly, there is a single format for everyone, and I can just type down the text and it gets aligned for me. I am not so much against Powerpoint as much as pro-outliners, especially text-based outliners. Best -F -- _________________________________________ -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - [email protected] - GnuPG 0x4A73884C _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
