Re: [MLUG] powerpoint-style presentations

[Matt Klaric <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 17:58, Mike Miller wrote:
> Is that working for you?  Does it make files that PowerPoint can read?  Can it 
> output handouts like PowerPoint?

I use Impress in the openoffice.org suite for my presentations.  I'm a
grad student so I do a fair number of presentations for both my work and
for the classes that I teach.  

It does allow you to open and save PowerPoint files.  Although I can't
say that my experiences are at all exhaustive, the only thing that I've
noticed that can get kinda screwy when opening PowerPoint files is that
connectors between shapes that you've drawn (ie. arrows) sometimes don't
appear as they did as they were in PowerPoint.  They are still there,
but the geometry sometimes changes.  Haven't figured out what the rhyme
or reason is, but i've noticed it sometimes.  

As for outputting handouts....Impress can print a handout type page. 
The difference between it's handouts and those in PowerPoint is that it
contains 4 slides per page as opposed to 6 in PowerPoint (or is that
variable?  I don't recall.)  

In short...it does the job for me.  

> I think some of you have been using PDF files for presentations, but what 
> have you used to make those files?

The openoffice.org programs can output to pdf files if you don't already
have a "printer" to do that.  

-- 
Matt Klaric (klaric.com) <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
public pgp key @ http://pgp.mit.edu

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