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 find that > would scale (for display only) every image during a show to the maximum > screen size, without having to know that screen size in advance. This > was important because I didn't know the projector resolution beforehand. > > I actually had two kuickshows running on different virtual windows: one > was cycling through an assortment of slides, while the second I would > advance manually to correspond to my talk. I jumped between the two by > jumping between the virtual windows. > > Big Minus: > Big disadvantage of kuickshow: I couldn't see an option to cycle through > slides randomly. I may look into filing a feature request. > > 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 buttons, and rebooting, and truthfully, I'm not > sure exactly what did it. We finally got it to work mirroring my laptop > screen, so I didn't have any secrets - whatever I typed was in front of > the audience. This actually was amusing because I opened a terminal to > invoke kuickshow. Later someone from the audience came up and said "Wow, > you do robots, fire, and command line. Really cool." (The talk was about > machine art.) > What thinkpad and what graphics card? > I have to figure out how to enable an external monitor reliably before I > talk in public again (which will be in Israel next month). > > Thanks everyone for your input - as always you are a very helpful and > informative group, and I learned from all of your replies, not just the > one I ended up using. For instance, I had no idea that ImageMagick had > so many features. > > Shalom, > Michael > > > > > > 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 press the slide show button. > > > > Another option (images only, your computer, KDE app) is kuickshow. > > > > If you don't know which computer you will be using, and/or it is a > > general presentation (not just images), go with PDF. On Linux I > > actually prefer kpdf to display slides, but acroread may be more > > common and more familiar. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
