OpenOffice and Powerpoint

[Joel Hammer]

Hmmm....

What I am going to have are four or five directories, each containing 4 or
5 jpg images. The contents of each directory must be displayed in proper
order, but the order of presentation at the directory level will be random.

Since these presentations are at least a weekly event, what I am trying
to do is work out a system where presentations can be generated with
very little effort. I was wondering how I could generate Powerpoint
presentations semi-automatically. That idea sounds dumb, when I write
it down and look at it on paper.

HTML might be better suited for this. It would be no sweat to create the html
with sed and a little knowledge of html (That's describes my knowledge of
html). Given the excellent results I have been getting with html2ps and
ps2pdf, maybe the whole thing can be made into one big pdf file. In full
screen mode, this might make a very nice presentation.  Now, that would
give 'em something to talk about.

It is interesting how many possibilities come to mind when you stop
thinking in terms of MS software!

This idea has merit. Got any more ideas?

Thanks,

Joel

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 10:27:55AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:26:33AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
> >Does anyone have experience exporting from OpenOffice to PowerPoint?
> >I want to export simple presentations, just images slides and text slides.
> 
> Have you thought of doing the presentation using html and a standard
> browser instead?  That way it's not proprietary, and can be viewed
> anywhere.
> 
> Bill
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