From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 24 21:47:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD1F237B4CF for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:47:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAP5m5R78381; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:48:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:48:04 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Wes Peters Cc: Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: any ways to look at powerpoint slides? Message-ID: <20001124214804.A78335@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <3A1EFA3F.5EEEE620@elischer.org> <3A1F4DBD.1161E7D9@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A1F4DBD.1161E7D9@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:27:25PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:27:25PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > >=20 > > I have looked in the ports xlhtml seems to extract out the text > > but it's not exactly easy to see what is in the ppt slides. > >=20 > > I've seen ppt presentations moved to some free S/W at usenix and BSDcon= .. > > how was that done? >=20 > StarOffice seems to read most PowerPoint presentations. The worst I've > seen so far is some ugly fonts, and a lot of slowness. If you install a truetype-capable font server (XFree86 4.0.1, or xfstt) and use the Microsoft windows fonts, does it get any better? It certainly makes netscape much nicer to use. Kris --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjofUpQACgkQWry0BWjoQKVreACeLhoN0GSwpfN0P6Xb50dajsYH iA0AoOfUlVqKrdR3IxVZ52ilU+aayO5c =/yah -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message