On 30 October 2010 22:18, Grant Sewell <dcg...@thymox.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:42:20 +0100 (BST) > dianne reuby wrote: > > > I've got an Open Office slide show on my laptop (running Ubuntu > > 10.10) and I want to use it with a digital projector. I've looked at > > grandr, but I can't find a lot of info - is this the best option? Or > > does it depend on my laptop specs and video card etc.? > > > > I could convert it to Windows format and use a windows laptop, but > > I'd have to remember to keep copying any updates over, and also > > remember which laptop I'd used! > > > > TIA > > Dianne > > Hi Dianne, > > It depends on what you want to achieve and on your laptop's hardware. > For instance, if you have a laptop with an nVidia graphics chip, and if > you're using the nVidia drivers, then I'd recommend using the > nvidia-settings tool to set up your displays appropriately. You can > quite easily set up a cloned-screen (both laptop display and the > projector showing the same output) or a multi-screen (each attached > display device having a different output on it) setup. > > Also, if you are considering using the files on a Windows machine, > don't forget that you can quite easily install OpenOffice on the > Windows machine too. Then you wouldn't have to keep "changing formats". > > Grant. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
Also you could setup a free dropbox account between the two laptops to sync the presentation. Steve
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