Interesting Esther I had not heard of the Skim app before. Looks rather nice. Do you use it much?
Donal On 15 Jan 2010, at 19:18, Esther wrote: > Hi Dónal, > > Since I'm late to this (and your earlier) thread on presentations, I'll just > mention that another option for displaying your PDF presentations from Beamer > or from Keynote (when you save them as PDF files) is to use Skim instead of > Preview. Check out the "View" options listed under Skim's menu bar. You'll > actually want to use "Presentation" (Command-Option-P) instead of "Full > Screen" (Command-Shift-F), and you can set up presentation options such as > the kind of transition, duration for page display, etc. with "Presentation > Options…" (Command-Control-T) under this same menu. If you're asked for > presentations as PDF output files (to avoid font incompatibilities between > Windows and Mac presentation programs), you can also display such files with > Skim this way (e.g., if you provided a Keynote file as a PDF output in this > format, such as by using the "Export…" option under the "File" menu of > Keynote and choosing "PDF" as your format, you can run the output from Skim > in presentation mode and just use the arrow keys to advance slides). > > Cheers, > > Esther > > Donal Fitzpatrick wrote: >> Thanks Anne,. I can quite happily live with "buggy". It resembles my own >> efforts at software development so I won't complain... <smile> >> Anne Robertson wrote: >> >>> Hello Dónal, >>> >>> I've managed to translate slides using Keynote. This was a presentation >>> imported from PowerPoint. I found that VO crashed every time I moved to the >>> next slide, but it recovered quickly and I just carried on as though >>> nothing had happened. >>> >>> So, it's a bit buggy but it's manageable. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > >
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