On Friday 14 March 2008 00:05:05 Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 13/03/2008, Andy Chaplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 13 March 2008 20:59:46 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > On 12/03/2008, Brittany Ricci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is their a way to make a slide show just like power point using open > > > > ofice? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Use the Impress component: > > > File -> New -> Presentation > > > > Hi Dotan > > > > I might be guessing wrong here, but I think Brittany is referring to the > > same feature that I was asking about - the "pack and go" feature in > > PowerPoint. That feature produces a self-contained slide show, whereas > > your suggestion creates a presentation file which may or may not be > > automated. > > By self-contained, do you mean an executable file? I hope not.
Basically, it's a powerpoint presentation with an embedded player. > > Of all the reasons that you don't want to send a presentation as an > excecutable, I'll only list two. One, I cannot run it (I don't use MS > Windows). So if you sent it to someone like me, then you would get a > letter back requesting the file in another format. Maybe from you, but not from any major company I work with. And although I and a number of friends use Linux exclusively at home, I have yet to find a company that has refused a file because I've sent it in a windows format. > Two, executable > files can contain all forms of malware. Nobody would run it, even if > they could. > Don't take offence at this, but I have never in the past 6 or 7 years sent a pack & go file to a customer who has then refused it. > Impress can export to PDF, shockwave flash, and even an animated gif. > Not that I would recommend those formats, but they are all safer and > more portable that a Windows executable. > That's very nice for you, and whilst I agree with you in most respects, the rest of the business world is not ready to change. Until they are, I am forced to work with their standards whether I like it or not (and unless open source software is prepared to play by those rules it is going to take it a very long time to make serious inroads into the Microsoft-oriented dominance). -- All the best Andy Chaplin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
