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Anastassis Perrakis (NKI) wrote:
Power Point is an excellent tool for making your presentation (and I
have to admit that Excel is great ... even Word is the best word
processor I have seen so far - and yes, I am very good at using LaTex
and wrote my thesis on it, but at some point in life we have to face
facts... Word, in my opinion, is still better than Apple's Page as a
processor although not aesthetically as good... I guess Open Office is
simply trying to reproduce Word's functionality with no impressive
results or innovative ideas to be honest, although it gets better and
better).
I agree, but I prefer Textedit if I'm not pluged into a socket. My PB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (when using Word) goes into sleep after 2:15 h - Word is just
a waste of battery life when I type the same stuff in Textedit it's more
like 4:00 h (and I switched the 10 minutes backup option to every 30
minutes, in Textedit I do it manualy after I feel that this was a bit of
work). If you don't have to worry about that, then Word is fine. Pages
is good as an alternative for Webpage design and is less powerful.
Whereas Keynote 2 is much better than Powerpoint - although I still miss
the ability to draw simple figures within the program I use.
I would not recommend to anyone to use HTML or PDF for presentations:
sure you can do so, but if you are starting now making presentations,
using Power Point is faster and will give better results. If you had
been doing it for 10 years in HTML or PDF, who cares, go on, of course
people had given impressive quality presentations in HTML (Dan van
Aalten comes into mind now...) but it IS more difficult to handle these.
PDF has a great advantage when you're not presenting on your laptop -
it's WYSIWYG - never worry about wrong fonts on the stupid presentation
computer. Apple Powerpoint and PC Powerpoint don't use the identical
Times font for example - that just screws your presentation. If you use
Palatino - for a better reading experience - you can be certain, that
what fitted into one line on your Mac will most likely not fit into one
line when transferred to a Windows PC using Powerpoint.
What I noticed is that Keynote2 exported to Powerpoint works better than
using MS Office Powerpoint on Mac and then copying the files to a
Windows system. Why can't an MS product be self consistent ?
At the end of the day, if you are religiously against Microsoft (as I
am) then buy a Mac and a Keynote license - it rocks.
Yes, indeed. Ever wanted to know why Tassos gives such great
presentations ? Have you ever tried the "Presenter Preview Mode" showing
the current total time and time spent on the current slide ? Probably
you'll now check out the function :-)
And btw, I cant help noticing, since we are in the presentation tools
topic: Your display is typically 1024x768 on a beamer. The biggest
picture you ever want to show will take 80% of that, lets say 800x600
to be generous. In RGB color this is less than 1.4 Mb. Do yourselves a
favor, and don't use for your talk your 400dpi, 20x30 cm figure you
made for your last poster, which is 45 Mb, thirty times bigger.
Because, you will slow things down, the computer will crash and you
will think you need a new laptop, while you only need to think a bit
more ... same advice goes for making figures: don't only think in dpi,
think of the expected print size before you render the panels in your
favorite ray tracer: since you need at most 400dpi dots-per-inch, so
if you know that this figure is only 1x1 inch (a panel in a paper) you
need 100 times less pixels (and size) than 10x10 inch than for your
poster: 'pixels' - 'dpi' - 'size': make sure you understand the
difference.
Back now working in Word - i said I am religious against MS, but I did
not say I don't do any sins ;-)
The only reason for keepin Word on a Mac is Endnote :-)
Apologies for the definitely off-CCP4 topic lecture, it seemed a good
way to kill 5 mins typing it, and I hope people find it useful, I have
given the advice in private and seems that most people appreciated it
in the past.
A.
dito
Juergen
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