[H-GEN] Generating Powerpoint presentations under Unix

[Mark Venz]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:35:18PM +1000, Rod Hurford wrote:
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> On 8/11/05, Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> wrote:
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> > I'm looking for software that runs under Unix variants that can
> > generate Powerpoint presentations (suitable to be displayed by
> > Windows machines).
> 
> Open Office Impress is supposed to be comparable. I'm not sure if all
> of the "features" of Powerpoint are supported but certainly the basics
> seem to be there. I've not had too many problems _viewing_ powerpoint
> presentations with it (version 1.1.3). I haven't tried the other way
> though.

I've used Impress in both directions, from and to powerpoint, and it 
seems to work - however this was a while back.
Animated gifs didn't transport very well.

While this is not answwering the question and is not a wysiwyg 
solution: Adobe pdf viewers have a full screen mode that works 
similarly to powerpoint, and there are number of presentation 
packages for LaTeX that can generate slides in pdf to take advantage 
of this.  The last presentation I did, I used LaTeX Beamer: 
http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/

Mark

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