Following your discussion, I was very surprised about this possibility. The only thing I might miss is a way to use two-screen display (monitor/beamer) to be able to click into a certain page while the presentation is running. Do you know if Adobe Reader for instance offers this way?
Am 29.09.2010 15:34, schrieb Steven Dayton: > As others have said use PDF for your presentation. Besides Adobe > Reader there are several other PDF readers out there that are fast > downloads and fast installs that can be used to display simple PDFs. > > If you wanted to add some punch to the presentation and you have > access to Acrobat 9 Professional you can add movie clips and Flash > elements to the PDF presentation. Maybe you are wanting to use open > source software which excludes expensive Acrobat but I thought I would > just mention the possibilities. > > Good luck. > > StevenD > > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:08 AM, peter linnell<plinnell at scribus.info> > wrote: >> >> On 9/29/10 7:54 AM, a.l.e wrote: >>> >>> hi john jason, >>> >>> >>>> But after downloading it I discovered that (evidently) OOo Impress >>>> cannot place any vector files. In the Insert Picture menu the only >>>> formats listed are raster image formats. But I know I can place vector >>>> images in Writer documents, so now I'm off to OOo mailing list to see >>>> if there is some library or another missing from my OOo 3.1. It >>>> doesn't make any sense that I cannot place vector images in Impress. >>> >>> you may use scribus to create your presentations... >>> >>> iirc, it can place vector files. >>> >>> ciao >>> a.l.e >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> scribus mailing list >>> scribus at lists.scribus.info >>> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> >> I second this... I've not done a presentation in anything but Scribus for >> years. >> >> You can include transition effects etc in PDF. >> >> http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=pdfexport4 >> >> Seeing my colleagues here struggle with Office/OpenOffice "helpfully" >> changing the layout depending on the machine which opens the files. >> >> Once in PDF format the presentation displays exactly the same. I do >> recommend using Adobe Reader for the demo/presentation. >> >> Hope that helps, >> Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> scribus mailing list >> scribus at lists.scribus.info >> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > > > -- > StevenD > > So you want it fast, good, and cheap. Choose any two. > > A bad day at the beach is better than a good day at work. > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
