Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-06 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 09:54, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. From other responses you'll see there are quite a number of options. I guess you need to try a

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 5 October 2003 at 1:23:50 +0100, Rus Foster wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. How about saving it as HTML then

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Simon Rutishauser
Hi, give the Latex Prosper Package a try (you have to fetch it separately). With it you can create pdf files. These you can present using xpdf -fullscreen (I think xpdf doesn't need too much ressources ;-)) Peschmä Am Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:24:33 +0200 schrieb Gabriel Striewe: Hello! Can

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Michal F. Hanula
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:24:33AM +0200, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. Thanks for any hints What about OperaShow?

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Todd Stephens
On Sunday 05 October 2003 02:56 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'd be very interested to hear from people who are picky, who have actually used any of these packages, and who can tell me how to use them well. (Amongst other things, this is a roundabout way of saying that I don't know

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Todd Stephens
On Sunday 05 October 2003 09:22 am, Todd Stephens wrote: Slideshow seems like an impressive application to me from looking at the web site http://www.alobbs.com/slideshow. It has an option to create ASCII Slides, so I don't know if that means it can read from a text file or not. I might

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:16:07AM +0200, Simon Rutishauser wrote: Hi, give the Latex Prosper Package a try (you have to fetch it separately). With it you can create pdf files. These you can present using xpdf -fullscreen (I think xpdf doesn't need too much ressources ;-)) Peschmä I

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Simon Rutishauser
Am Sun, 05 Oct 2003 08:57:10 -0600 schrieb Tillman Hodgson: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:16:07AM +0200, Simon Rutishauser wrote: Hi, give the Latex Prosper Package a try (you have to fetch it separately). With it you can create pdf files. These you can present using xpdf -fullscreen (I

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 13:26:31 +0200, Michal F. Hanula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:24:33AM +0200, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources.

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Todd Stephens
On Sunday 05 October 2003 07:26 am, Michal F. Hanula wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:24:33AM +0200, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources.

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Michal F. Hanula
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:21:43PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote: What about OperaShow? http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/operashow/ Assuming one knows how to author an html document. Is this part of the Opera port? On the web page is says it is part of Opera for Windows, but

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Gabriel Striewe
Hello! I found this website with information on LaTeX- and HTML-based screen presentation tools. http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html I hope this is any helpful. Gabriel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-04 Thread Gabriel Striewe
Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. Thanks for any hints Gabriel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-04 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. How about saving it as HTML then using netscape? Rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-04 Thread Todd Stephens
On Saturday 04 October 2003 08:23 pm, Rus Foster wrote: How about saving it as HTML then using netscape? I think he wanted something that /wasn't/ a resource hog :-) Seriously, if you have KDE installed (which you probably don't if you are worried about system resources) there is KPresenter.