From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 12:20:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A6737B401 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thuis.piwebs.com (t-indiv5-74.athome.tue.nl [131.155.241.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 704D543FE5 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:20:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avleeuwen@piwebs.com) Received: (qmail 35379 invoked by uid 85); 23 Jun 2003 19:21:10 -0000 Received: from avleeuwen@piwebs.com by thuis.piwebs.com by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.15 (uvscan: v4.1.60/v4210. spamassassin: 2.x. Clear:SA:0(-4.2/5.0):. Processed in 11.137739 secs); 23 Jun 2003 19:21:10 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.2 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO 192.168.0.109) (192.168.0.109) by 0 with SMTP; 23 Jun 2003 19:20:58 -0000 From: Arjan van Leeuwen To: Julian Stacey , Friedrich Steven E CONT CNIN Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:20:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200306231645.h5NGjBNF042990@tower.berklix.org> In-Reply-To: <200306231645.h5NGjBNF042990@tower.berklix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306232120.02293.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/ports/misc/magicpoint X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:20:17 -0000 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. > > - > Julian Stacey Freelance Systems Engineer, Unix & Net Consultant, > Munich. Ihr Rauchen => mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Schnupftabak > probieren. _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"