The nearest resembling Power Point would surely be Star Office. If you are using your own system for presentation this is quite good enough.
The problem which I have faced is not in actually preparing the presentation, but during the time of delivery of the presentation at external facilities (where I tour for lectures/ seminars/ talks etc). Most institutions cater for projection systems and allied facilities typically configured on Windows based systems (for the predominant .ppt crowd) and that too on differing versions of Win thus making version compatibility of the .ppt file an issue. To keep such presentations completely system inde- pendent, of late I have started using plain HTML. Graphic images are edited through gimp and linked. Clicking a GIF arrow on each screen brings up the next "slide" like in a .ppt presentation (without animations though). Using frames, effects can be created which cannot be done in .ppt! You can also use any colour or GIF for a background as in .ppt. If you are not conversant with HTML, any wp which can save in HTML like Abiword or Word Perfect is more than enough. Netscape composer is suitable as well. In all of these Fonts, colors, bullets, tables etc can be done in a WYSIWYG environment. Works quite well. The zip file that I carry with me is definitely more compact than corresponding ppt presentation of the same thing. The only "drawback" is the frame of the browser hanging around when the presentation is made. In Windows there is a program called HTML2EXE which converts HTMLs to stand alone EXE (thus eliminting browser requirements). Surely, if this system of HTML presentations becomes more popular, somebody would come up with a similar thing for Linux some day ! Posting it to the list to generate a concensus for non-proprietary computing (regarding which all of us are aware) ... and with the hope that somebody with programming skills capable of taking on such a project is listening ! USM Bish On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 04:29:45PM +0100, Helgi Örn wrote: > StarOffice perhaps? > I installed it on my potato and it runs very well so far. > > Helgi Örn > > "Thomas R. Shannon" wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a graphics presentation progam similar to Power Point. > > It has to be able to work in a full-screen slide mode and be able too > > insert eps graphics files. The ability to directly insert wmf files > > would certainly be a plus. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Tom > > --
