Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:20:42 +0100 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: "Markus Hoenicka" <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de> Cc: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: presentation application (other than OpenOffice)? Message-ID: <3a142e750811260620m2c234f13v255e3b2e37650d3a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081126150210.paxicrpz6scws0ww@webmail.df.eu> References: <d356c5630811260526k9a7577fsf0647273b0ac4ba5@mail.gmail.com> <20081126150210.paxicrpz6scws0ww@webmail.df.eu>
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On 11/26/08, Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de> wrote: > Quoting Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com>: > >> I'm browsing around for smaller office apps. Abiword and Gnumeric are >> great. Does anyone have any recommendations for a presentation software? >> I'd rather not compile OpenOffice; and I'm just not "getting" KDE4. >> > > Hi Andrew, > > if you're into LaTeX, then prosper > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/prosper/) might be an option. If > you're into XML and don't need no fancy effects, then DocBook Slides > (http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/slides/3.4.0/RELEASE-NOTES.html) may > > come in handy. Also, if you don't need any effects or transitions you > may consider any tool that creates multi-page PDF files. Adobe Reader > has a full-screen option which turns it into a presentation viewer. xpdf also support full-screen option and is much lighter than Adobe Reader, and doesnt depends on linux stuff. evince can be of use if you already have it installed, because it supports fullscreen and presentation mode. -- Paul
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