Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:48:04 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: any ways to look at powerpoint slides? Message-ID: <20001124214804.A78335@citusc17.usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <3A1F4DBD.1161E7D9@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:27:25PM -0700 References: <3A1EFA3F.5EEEE620@elischer.org> <3A1F4DBD.1161E7D9@softweyr.com>
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--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
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