I am not sure about that, but I suspect that if instead of using
PowePoint to present the slides, you create pdf from the PP presentation
and show it with Adobe acrobat or Reader, everything will be shown as it
was meant to.
EK
On 06/02/2010 01:42 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
On 6/2/2010 12:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
Your point about Powerpoint is legit -- if both your source and
destination
machines are Windows, have the same fonts, and both have Powerpoint,
Powerpoint's the easiest way to do it. Sort of. With Powerpoint, it's
all too
easy to fingerpaint yourself into oblivion and then not be able to
restore the
defaults. But yeah, Powerpoint's much easier when you're placing
graphics.
There's also the question of mathematical notation. I happen to think
that entering math in LyX is much easier than using MS's equation
editor, but that's not the main issue to me. A couple of years ago I
was at an operations research conference where presenters split about
50-50 between using Powerpoint and using Beamer. At these
conferences, it's typical that one presenter brings a laptop and all
presenters use that laptop ... which means that unless you are the one
providing the laptop, you cannot be sure which fonts are installed. A
whole bunch of presenters discovered blank spaces where math had once
lived. I think I saw that happen once with a Beamer user (maybe), but
it happened numerous times to Powerpoint users. In my personal
experience, necessary fonts are usually embedded in the PDFs that
Beamer produces. Not so with Powerpoint.
/Paul
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Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor
Director, The laboratory of Visual& Computational Neuroscience
Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural& Chemical Biology,
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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