I appreciate the detailed answer to me, Graham Lauder With Warm Regards
V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 914422396480 On 4 February 2013 13:31, Graham Lauder <g.a.lau...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Kadal Amutham <vka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > By exporting to pdf, one may loose all the animation. There is no viewer > > for OpenOffice, and logically it is not required. Install OpenOffce, > where > > you want to run the presentation. > > > > With Warm Regards > > > > V.Kadal Amutham > > 919444360480 > > 914422396480 > > > > > You can choose to save animations in the PDF dialog. However animations > are non-critical and in fact a pointless decorative fancy that serious > users of impress shouldn't use in any case. The critical factor is the > Enduser, as Stephen has pointed out, the Enduser of his presentations is > Digitally Challenged and installing a new piece of software just to view > a single presentation is not an optimal solution. PDF is, which is why > we have export to PDF, just for this very situation, a factor that has > put us ahead of the opposition for quite a number of years. AOOs > handling of the PDF format is one of it's great strengths. Something to > be celebrated, not suppressed. Use of an open format like PDF also > means that we don't have to force people to install our software, just > to view it, another of our strengths. > > Cheers > GL > > > > > > > > > > On 4 February 2013 09:32, Graham Lauder <g.a.lau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Stephen J. Lemmons < > > stevejl....@gmail.com > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > Dear Sir; > > > > > > > > I've been looking at and experimenting with Open Office. In > > > > particular your presentation package. I like what I see, however, I > > > > haven't been able to find one thing. How do you put your > presentation > > > on a > > > > CD with a viewer so it can be viewed on another PC that doesn't have > > Open > > > > Office? I'm trying to set up some class material for my minister > who > > is > > > > computer illiterate. I need to give him something that he doesn't > > have > > > to > > > > try and search all over his computer trying to find a particular > piece > > of > > > > software. Can you help? After what I've been through the past two > > > weeks > > > > I really don't want to use any version of MS Office. > > > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > > Hi Steve, > > > > > > Your best bet in this circumstance is to Export to PDF. Use the File > > > > Export to PDF dialog. This opens a window that allows you to tune how > > the > > > receiver views the file in Acrobat Reader. Click on the "User > Interface" > > > and "Initial View" tabs to view those options. For instance you can > set > > it > > > to open in Fullscreen mode and view it like a presentation. Ideal for > > > people who are "Digitally Challenged". Most people have Acrobat reader > > on > > > their computers already so there is no need for the recipient to > install > > > new software, it should just work for them. > > > > > > Cheers > > > GL > > > > > >
