Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il writes: at the very least, i want to point it at a directory of images, and cycle through them, pausing for a couple of seconds on each picture. If it's only images (no text slides), than

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:58:59PM -0800, Michael Shiloh wrote: What's a good way to automatically create a pdf file from a bunch of images? hmm haven't tried it, but I guess that convert (of ImageMagick) would do the job). And speaking of impressive PDF presenters, it used to be called

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2009-01-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:46:48AM +0200, Erez D wrote: That message is both off-topic for this list (I have no objection for reciving it in private mail and for being off-topic I won't comment here regarding its content) and worst of all: had incorrect encoding. us-aascii instead of UTF-8 .

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2009-01-22 Thread Erez D
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Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-22 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com writes: What's a good way to automatically create a pdf file from a bunch of images? Hmm... It is easy to convert each image to PDF, e.g., with $ for i in *.jpg; do convert -resize 1024x768 $i ${i%.*}.pdf; done or similar, but you want to create a

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-22 Thread Jason Friedman
Following on from Oleg, once you have convert the images to PDF with imagemagick $ for i in *.jpg; do convert -resize 1024x768 $i ${i%.*}.pdf; done you can then combine them all into one PDF file using pdftk: pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf Jason -- Jason Friedman Postdoctoral

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:20:09PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com writes: What's a good way to automatically create a pdf file from a bunch of images? Hmm... It is easy to convert each image to PDF, e.g., with $ for i in *.jpg; do convert

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-22 Thread Michael Shiloh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:20:09PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com writes: What's a good way to automatically create a pdf file from a bunch of images? Hmm... It is easy to convert each image to PDF, e.g., with $ for i in

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-22 Thread Danny Lieberman
--001636e90b75ce4aae04611695b1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael Of course there is. It's built into Ubuntu - just use F-Spot Slideshow. Should have everything you need I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 and I have used it a few times for family events.

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-22 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2009-01-22 01:58, Michael Shiloh wrote: What's a good way to automatically create a pdf file from a bunch of images? I use this script: http://tromer.org/misc/pages2pdf Help text: Converts a bunch of image files (in any common format) into one PDF file. Optionally, reduces resolution

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-22 Thread Michael Shiloh
Amit Aronovitch wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il writes: at the very least, i want to point it at a directory of images, and cycle through them, pausing for a couple of seconds on each picture. If it's only

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-22 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il writes: convert *.jpg presentation.pdf Cool... It is not at all clear from the help that convert works this way, and I never knew it did, but apparently it does... Thanks, Tzafrir. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org