slides
Forum: Apps
Topic: slides
started by: acentomo
Posted by acentomo on April 26 2005,09:53
Which software is avaliable in DSL to create slides for a presentation?I did not found MagicPoint :-( Is there something like it?
Thanks
Andrea
Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on April 26 2005,11:11
I haven't tried it out yet, but I think the OpenOffice package usually has a "Powerpoint" compatible slide creator. I've only tried OO under windoze (yeah, I'll get to it under dsl soon), so I don't know if the package is the same, but the windoze one was very nice, even exported as swf (Flash).But you need a fair bit of RAM (at least 128MB recommended last I checked) to run OO.
Don't know about any stand-alone packages, never had the need to look for one yet. Maybe you could enquire whether a MagicPoint .dsl can be made?
Posted by DeeJay on April 26 2005,15:10
The OpenOffice act-alike for Presentations is Impress.Details here -
< http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html >
I don't know if this is included in the tarball on the MyDSL repository - 'Robert' packaged it, I wonder if he knows, please? Note on MyDSL says "requires 384M RAM".
MagicPoint is a source-only release, 880KBytes. It builds cleanly on a debian system (not attempted on DSL) with gcc version 2.95.4. I think it will need some nice fonts to go with it.
DeeJay
Posted by ke4nt1 on April 26 2005,15:22
I'm not sure why the info file says 384MB ram needed.Perhaps that info is dated.. , or an extreme circumstance.
I've run it on MUCH less...
Here is the requirements text, cut from openoffice.org itself..
| Quote |
How much memory do I need ? Generally 64-128MB is needed, but it is system and version dependent. For Windows and Linux a minimum of 64 megabytes is recommended but 128 megabytes or more would be better. Several people have run OpenOffice.org on 16 MB machines and even though it takes quite a while to start, they were very quite happy with its usability. How much disk space do I need ? For version 1.1 you will need about 215 MB for a complete installation. |
and yes, the impress is included with the version found here, and works very nicely.
I'm looking forward to a newer 2.0.x.dsl version soon, I've read some wonderful things about it.
73
ke4nt
Posted by davide on April 26 2005,16:37
also you may want to try < imposter > an application that is meant to SHOW presentations you create with impress.if you happen to have a low-resource hardware, you cannot take advantage of impress and openoffice (believe me, you really can't
) but maybe you have another pc where you can use impress..and then..use imposter for showing those files in a public presentation..or just for yourself.
that's the goal of the program.
don't know if it's available via synaptic, but a debian package exists.
Posted by cbagger01 on April 26 2005,16:51
If you run the OpenOffice UCI package instead of the tar.gz package, you can run it with MUCH less than 384MB of RAM. Probably with 128MB or even less if you have a swap file or swap partition activated.Also, the siag office extensio should have the Egon animator program which is kinda like a presentation software. But I would suspect that magicpoint is the ideal solution.
Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on April 26 2005,21:35
You wouldn't need OO installed to view a presentation if you export it as an SWF and you have the Flash plugin installed for Firefox. Just load up the SWF file in Firefox and put it in fullscreen mode.Actually, I was looking around on the mozilla extensions site the other day, quite a few handy little extensions, one of them makes your fullscreen really fullscreen, ie. no bars, navigation, etc. Though not sure how you'd get out of it if you were viewing an SWF fullscreen, as I think it uses a menu added to the right-click to exit, and, well, you'd get the Flash menu if you right-click on an SWF...
Posted by SaidinUnleashed on April 26 2005,21:51
The 384mb comes from having all 5 applications in OOo running at the same time.They take up ~=384mb.
Writer, Calc, Impress, Design, and there's one more, but I can't remember what it is...
Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on April 26 2005,21:59
RE: the fullscreen extension, it's here:< Mozilla Extensions - AutoHide >
The settings are under Preferences/Advanced, you can set auto-hide menu-bar, which will give you your menu-bar when you put your mouse at the top of the screen, so you can access usual menus plus get out of fullscreen mode. 'Cause I tried it and you don't get the right-click option to escape fullscreen if you are right-clicking on an SWF file...