Gauvain Pocentek wrote: > > Jelle de Jong wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Hi fellows, >>> I'm using Ubuntu since about 3 years, especially Xubuntu due to it's >>> good performance in low profile PCs, I'm really good surprised with >>> those results. BTW I want to congratulate all of developer team for >>> Xubuntu, however my email is not for praise, I have a doubt about >>> recommended software. >>> In my last "case of use" I'm trying to use only GTK software to >>> achieve the best performance (at least I think so), It's not matter of >>> "GTK's religion", the really thing is I'm trying keep in use a very >>> old laptop (only 64Mb of RAM). So far so good, I'm using Xubuntu and >>> everything is working fine (really fine !!!). In this case is really >>> impossible to use Gnome or KDE's based application and I tried it. >>> My only problem is with powerpoint presentations. I've browsed a lot >>> in Internet without get anything really useful. Most of the people >>> only recommend OpenOffice and KOffice. Other recommend me to try using >>> pptHtml tool but it only accepts 95/97 formats and moreover only send >>> to stdout the text so its results are quite poor. Finally others use >>> pptview but it's not a native Linux program so I have to run it over >>> wine, so I don't think it'll be a good choice. Before trying with >>> pptview I want to try with other native solution so that's why I'm >>> here asking your opinions/experiences/recommendations. In the Xubuntu >>> Desktop Guide I found (under Finding the Right Program) useful >>> software recommendations but none about presentations (porwepoint or >>> .PPT). Can you help me with some recommendation ??. >>> Thanks a lot in advance >>> ivan >>> >> Hi Ivan, >> >> Learn Latex, there are good books out there, use Geany to write and edit >> it and use xpdf to present it. This is the best way to create >> professional presentations that work on every machine. (32> Mem) >> > > latex can read .ppt's? I didn't know that...
No LaTeX can not read *.ppt files, with LaTeX you can create very good presentations in open standard *.pdf format. It was an advice on the good presentation software for Linux question. > > Ivan, I've been looking for such software too, but AFAIK only openoffice can > do the work (speaking of GTK apps). If you find something else please let us > know. > > Gauvain -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
