On Tuesday 15 February 2005 17:33, "Dr. Iglói Gábor" wrote: > Dear Developers! > > My name is Gábor Iglói. I'm a medical doctor in Hungary. I'm fond of > opensource software and using OpenOffice.org for 1,5 years now. I like > it very much actually I have written all of my important documents using > this suite including my graduate essay. > > I follow the ongoing development of the OpenOffice.org 2.0 and I find it > very promising. I have welcomed that the insertion of movie clips in > Impress presentations has been developed. In fact, in the academic world > it is very important to create and perform nice presentations for > education. Unfortunately in this world M$ software has the monopoly - > you just can't replace the PowerPoint because everyone uses it so when > you bring your CD to anywhere you must supply your presentation in > PowerPoint format. With Impress you can produce quality presentations > but you can't transfer it to congresses. Even if you export it to ppt > format there are some incompatibilities. And until now you could embed > very limited video clips in your Impress presentations. > > I've also read about and searched for OpenOffice Viewer tools. I've read > about developers' opinions about this topic: too much effort to create a > stuff like that for all platforms, instead OO.o gives good support for > HTLM, PDF or Flash export... > > This way it will be hard to give the academic world a working option for > migration. You can't reproduce all effects of an Impress presentation in > these formats and you can't embed movie clips either. > > I would suggest that maybe it would be a very good idea and this could > make OO.o even more popular if you would create an Impress Viewer. You > wouldn't need to support all platforms and all OpenOffice components > because > > 1. Unix/Linux users have already installed OpenOffice/StarOffice on > their machines - this is the ultimate office suite for *nix users (I'm > in this group too:) - so they don't need a viewer app > 2. OO.o Writer documents can be exported to PDF quite well so everybody > can handle them - so a Writer Viewer wouldn't be so important (and OO.o > has good support for the DOC format) > 3. You would develop an Impress Viewer for only the MS Windows platform, > because other platforms' users probably has and use OpenOffice.org already. > > That's why I think a standalone Impress Viewer is the most lacked > component of OO.o. With the availability of a small standalone, > installable or simply executable official Impress Viewer for Windows we > could conquer the academic and perhaps the business scene. > > Thank you reading my letter, > Gábor Iglói, M.D. >
I don't know whether it whether it will help, but you can install OOo on a USB key. There is a How-To at http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/various_topics/USB_key.sxw Barrie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
