From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 9: 0: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corten2.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32CD737B403 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:00:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8]) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 13luBt-0005bc-00; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:27:37 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:31:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: Subject: Re: Slides for speech In-Reply-To: <86n12pavef.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Message-ID: System-ID: SunOS 5.8 i86pc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 18 Oct 2001 it looks like Wayne Pascoe composed: wayne.->Hi all, wayne.-> wayne.->Can anyone advise me on a good tool to generate slides for a talk wayne.->under FreeBSD? I want these to be printable as well. wayne.-> wayne.->I looked at Staroffice's presentation module, and this looks OKish, wayne.->but is a bit klunky and slow. wayne.-> Without a doubt, "Magicpoint" at Homepage: http://www.Mew.org/mgp/ Download: ftp://ftp.mew.org/pub/MagicPoint/magicpoint-1.07a.tar.gz I used it for my "Unix" presentation at Linuxworld in August. Make sure to check out (run) all the "sample" files that come with it, full color backgrounds, animated text, font sizes etc, it's all run from a basic ASCII text file that you edit like HTML. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message