Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> "Jens" == Jens Grivolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jens> Hi, I am looking for a good presentation program (something like > Jens> PowerPoint) for Linux. > > There are several packages for making nice slides with LaTeX. The best > one I've seen so far is prosper (available as a Debian package). If you > use Acrobat Reader as your viewer, you get a few nice transitions too > (although I personally find transitions a waste of time).
Very nice. I might seriously reconsider using LaTeX, especially because formulas are really a pita when using anything else. So far I had only been using the "dull kind" of LaTeX slides, having nice templates makes all the difference for me. I will have to look at the possibilities of the Acrobat Reader, too, unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a dual screen mode as I recently saw with somebody's PowerPoint presentation. > Jens> Do you think that using SVG is a good idea? If so, what good > Jens> (easy to use) authoring tools are there? > > sodipodi (available as a Debian package) is the only Linux-based editor > I know of. It looks pretty nice (according to the web page), but isn't of course optimized for slide presentations. I will keep it in mind though as a vector graphics program. > The situation looks even worse for viewers, though. Mozilla's SVG > support is not very good, and you would probably need to build it > yourself, since the Debian packages (and the mozilla.org binaries) don't > include it. There is a beta version of Adobe's plugin, though, that you > may be able to make work. The Adobe plugin is working here with Mozilla/Galeon. But of course this is far from being a good presentation program. Ciao, Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
