Dear Jeff:
I also have used Oo for presentations during the 4 years I was in
Toastmasters.
At that time I was using it on an XT platform.
Since the purchase of Sun by Oracle, I have gone to LibreOffice, but
much is the same.
I also use LibO on Fedora 16, and with double screens on my laptop, I
use the external screen for the audience (or it could equally be a
projector) and the Laotop screen for the speaker's screen.
When I use my presenter, both screens change in synchronism. On the
speaker's screen there are 3 parts:
1) is a small image of the image on the audience screen, so I can see
where that is at without the need to turn my back to the audience.
2) is a similar image, but of the next screen to come up.
3) is a larger window with the annotatons (AKA "teleprompter"). This is
a real help if the content of the speech/presentation is complex. Also
it can speed getting back on track if you have an unexpected audience
distraction.
One more thing I have seen a great and too often neglected need for:
Wherever in a speech or presentation, the content is dependent on the
audience grasping the interrelations between a complex (often
circumstantial) arrangement of interacting concepts, especially if those
concepts are abstract ones, I have developped a strategy based on Draw.
I call this "organnigrammes". Organnigrammes is simply the French word
for flowcharts. I used the French word in English to infer a
distinction between traditional flowcharts and what I have done.
First, I downloaded a simple screen of traditional flowchart symbols
from the web.
I then vectorised them and thence made variations of my vectorisations
to represent added "Graphic vocabulary" to the project.
More recently, I had to add symbols for the Boolean algebra concepts,
AND, OR, NOT.
For this, being an electronic technician, I vectorised they symbols used
for AND and OR gates, added the little circle when a negation or
inversion was needed, added text labels inside, and there it was.
I also had created symbols to indicate reiterative loops and a few more.
Aside from technical presentations, I see this as being a practical way
to efficiently document and communicate personality sketches between
managers, HR people and psychologists.
(Note the ethical considerations are independent of the tools, as only
humans can make such moral judgements, thus abrogating any such
complaints that could be made against the tools rather than the user's
use of them.)
Since I save all the vectorised pieces in all the Draw work I do, they
add ongoing to my working library.
I also have a lot of tricks I use to do the tasks that a true CAD app
would do better, and Draw does not do directly.
Note that scale is a setting of Draw, not the .ODG file, so it may be
expedient to have an extra page at the end for scraps and annotations of
such items as scale and grid settings used for each file.
To me the biggest caveat is that Draw has a math accuracy limit of only
about 3 decimal places, rather than, say 12 for a true CAD app.
Therefore in some cases I have to use a callout to show exact dims.
This may help some out there who do presentations.
On 3/15/2012 00:31, Jeffrey Deutsch wrote:
Hello,
Some time back, I posted asking for advice with OpenOffice.org's
Impress. I just wanted to thank all of you for your help - my
presentation was a huge success!
Keep up the good work!
Jeff Deutsch
Speaker& Life Coach
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