On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking for an alternative to OpenOffice.org for slide shows, > and thinking about web-like alternatives that I can run through > with firefox. The major problem now is OOo Impress's poor support > for embedded movies and animation - you have to add many extra > java packages, and it is slow. Portability is also an issue. > > My slide shows are graphics heavy and text light - I am not > interested in fancy moving arrows and text and frame-to-frame > dissolves. I build a lot of my slides with C programs and libgd. > I can use the open source "swftools" to turn PNG frames into > Flash movies. > > Content creation is not much of an issue, but displaying it the > way I want it is a big issue. I want to use a USB wireless > presenter style remote, which generates the keyclicks and > mouseclicks that OOo Impress and Powerpoint and others can be > driven with. I don't want to be tied down to a mouse (even a > wireless one) if I can avoid it. > > Suggestions?
I haven't used this, but it looks pretty good. If you go with this, I can help you get the Ruby piece set up. :) http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/tutorial.html -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
