Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:20:02 +0200 From: Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com> To: Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org>, Friedrich Steven E CONT CNIN <friedrich_s@crane.navy.mil> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/ports/misc/magicpoint Message-ID: <200306232120.02293.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> In-Reply-To: <200306231645.h5NGjBNF042990@tower.berklix.org> References: <200306231645.h5NGjBNF042990@tower.berklix.org>
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OpenOffice also has a presentation tool ('Impress') that might be more
attractive to PowerPoint users. Ditto for OpenOffice's Excel replacement
('Calc').
The KDE Office suite, koffice (editors/koffice-kde3) also offers a
presentation tool similar to PowerPoint and a spreadsheet program similar to
Excel. OpenOffice is better at importing Microsoft's proprietary file formats
though.
I agree that MagicPoint is an excellent tool, but some users might find it far
too complicated to work with. These alternatives are arguably a better choice
for them.
All in all, enough tools to forget about PowerPoint :).
Regards,
Arjan
On Monday 23 June 2003 18:45, Julian Stacey wrote:
> > Don't you mean MS Powerpoint?
>
> Yes, thanks for the correction. I can never remember names for MS
> products, so I added a reminder table at the top of my
> http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/free/
>
> It'd be a few mins well invested, if anyone tries:
> cd /usr/ports/misc/magicpoint ; make install; rehash
> mgp /usr/X11R6/share/doc/mgp/sample/sample.mgp
> vi_or_any_editor /usr/X11R6/share/doc/mgp/sample/sample.mgp
>
> Magicpoint wouldn't appeal to MS zombies scared of a keyboard
> to compose a presentation though.
>
> -
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