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acentomo

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Posted: 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

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Posted: 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?

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DeeJay

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Posted: 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.

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ke4nt1

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Posted: 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..

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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.

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davide

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Posted: 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

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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.

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