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

2009-02-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:21:07 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Big Lesson: Big lesson learned: It took us a long time to get the projector to

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

2009-02-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:52:47 +0200 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:21:07 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote:

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

2009-02-11 Thread Meir Kriheli
Michael Shiloh wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Big Lesson: Big lesson learned: It took us a long time to get the projector to display from my laptop. It took a combination of the screen resolution

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

2009-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
Sorry, sent only privately by mistake On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:06:11 +0200 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:21:07 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800 Michael Shiloh

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

2009-02-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Meir Kriheli wrote: Michael Shiloh wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Big Lesson: Big lesson learned: It took us a long time to get the projector to display from my laptop. It took a combination of the screen

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

2009-02-10 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hey, I wanted to let everyone know the follow-up to this conversation, as it was an interesting exercise with a valuable lesson. Big Plus: I ended up using kuickshow, as it was the only program I could find that would scale (for display only) every image during a show to the maximum screen

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

2009-02-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I wanted to let everyone know the follow-up to this conversation, as it was an interesting exercise with a valuable lesson. Big Plus: I ended up using kuickshow, as it was the only program I could

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

2009-02-10 Thread Michael Shiloh
Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Big Lesson: Big lesson learned: It took us a long time to get the projector to display from my laptop. It took a combination of the screen resolution applet, the Thinkpad Fn

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

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

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

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
i need to make a slide show from a bunch of photographs. i can use openoffice impress, but perhaps there is something more lightweight and easier to use. 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.

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

2009-01-21 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 22 בJanuary 2009, Michael Shiloh wrote: i need to make a slide show from a bunch of photographs. i can use openoffice impress, but perhaps there is something more lightweight and easier to use. From impress you can export it to PDF. It's the best choice for general purpose

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

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
Perfect. I have yet to find out if they provide a computer or if i am to use mine. if theirs, then pdf is the obvious choice. if mine, then digikam sounds like a good candidate. using a directory to define a pool of anything is completely natural to use old-time *nix geeks! i'll check out

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

2009-01-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
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 you can simply point digikam at the directory and press the slide show

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

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
Oleg Goldshmidt 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 you can simply point digikam at the directory and

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

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
Oleg Goldshmidt 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 you can simply point digikam at the directory and