Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread USM Bish
My personal preference is to use HTML presentation on a browser. Totally platform independent. Opera 5 supports full screen (F11 toggle), and it is *actually* the full screen with no browser borders, (unlike IE which still has the browser frame around). This is true for both the Linux and

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Rajkumar S.
On 12 Jun 2001, Graham Williams wrote: In a similar vane I use the LaTeX prosper package which does a very good job of bringing together texpower, hyperref, ifmslides, in a simple to use and familiar (LaTeX) environment and provides plug-n-play glitz just like powerpoint, all presented using

RE: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Chapman, Matt
-Original Message- From: USM Bish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:05 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint? My personal preference is to use HTML presentation on a browser. Totally platform independent. Opera 5 supports

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Thomas Halahan
yes latex rules, spend a bit of time getting your slide (color) template and pdf stuff ok, then save time, get better looking presentation (with less fluff) and have a truely sharable presentation. i have played with texpower with pdflatex and dvipdfm with good results. on the downside its

RE: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Chapman, Matt
] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 6:52 PM To: Chapman, Matt Subject: Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint? Matt, Got your point ... there is no denying that presentations made with StarOffice are almost like Powerpoint, if not better. The problem which I face is going around to different parts

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Matthias Richter
Chapman, Matt wrote on Tue Jun 12, 2001 at 03:28:05PM: I could totally lose window$ (other than work) if I could get something that would produce Flash (.swf) files like Swish www.swishzone.com under Linux (my preferred OS). Anyone out there know of such a beast? MING[1] is kind of a

RE: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread der.hans
Am 12. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Chapman, Matt so: I could totally lose window$ (other than work) if I could get something that would produce Flash (.swf) files like Swish www.swishzone.com under Linux (my preferred OS). Anyone out there know of such a beast? Tried PHP? Rasmus recently gave a

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-11 Thread Graham Williams
Matthias Richter wrote to debian-user on 09 Jun 2001 23:30:41 +1000: Is there anything for Linux that provides at least some of the facilities of Powerpoint? Matthias I've just completed a presentation using pdflatex Matthias (texpower, hyperref, ifmslides) \ldots so if you're

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-09 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there anything for Linux that provides at least some of the facilities of Powerpoint? -- Anthony Campbell - running Gnu/Debian Linux (Windows-free zone). For electronic books (Homeomythology and The Assassins of Alamut),

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-09 Thread Robert Voigt
On Saturday 09 June 2001 14:04, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there anything for Linux that provides at least some of the facilities of Powerpoint? Staroffice has a presentation maker called Impress. I read a review. They said it's pretty good. But I tried to load a jpg (just to try if it can

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-09 Thread mdevin
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there anything for Linux that provides at least some of the facilities of Powerpoint? I have not tried either of these, but you could check these: magicpoint - It is still in development though and not as fully functional.

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-09 Thread Matthias Richter
Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there anything for Linux that provides at least some of the facilities of Powerpoint? I've just completed a presentation using pdflatex (texpower, hyperref, ifmslides) \ldots so if you're already very familiar with (pdf)latex you might also use this cross-plattform

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Jun 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there anything for Linux that provides at least some of the facilities of Powerpoint? I have not tried either of these, but you could check these: magicpoint - It is still in

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-09 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Matthias, could you send your presentation (or something more simple and less confidential for you) for serving as template for me? Much thanks Em Sat, 9 Jun 2001 15:30:41 +0200, Matthias Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-09 Thread Matthias Richter
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote on Sat Jun 09, 2001 at 12:35:37PM: could you send your presentation (or something more simple and less confidential for you) for serving as template for me? Many examples are already in the packages I had mentioned and these are commented much

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-09 Thread John
On Saturday 09 June 2001 07:04, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there anything for Linux that provides at least some of the facilities of Powerpoint? Try Kpresenter. looks pretty good.