StarOffice: Slide sorter slow

[Joel Hammer]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:10:59AM -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> >I then run powerpoint with a macro that imports all the
> >images into the presentation, without linking them. I
> >thought that would be safer then having them linked.
> 
> Have you considered building the presentation natively in OO rather than 
> in PPt. OO may be at a disadvantage here because of having to work with 
> someone else's proprietary, closed format.
> 
> Worth a try ...

To do that, I would have to rewrite a bunch of macros. I
have spent much time writing some handy visual basic
routines to import and process images in powerpoint. I am
not going to redo them in SO!

But, I don't see why that should matter. The import into SO
seems to have worked very nicely, which says a lot of nice
things about the hardworking people at SunMicrosystems.

I will try to alter the macros in powerpoint to just
link to the image instead of inserting the image into the
presentation. That might be an advantage, whether you are
working in powerpoint or SO/OO.

Speaking of proprietary, it is very nice that SO will
publish its presentation to PDF. Very handy. I don't see
anything that allows that in PowerPoint. That is really
nice. MS should is slow to learn some things.

I notice that the newer acrobat reader for windows allows
you to export text or images from PDF files. No such luck
apparently in the linux version.  However, if you convert
the PDF to postscript (see acroread --help for details),
you can than use convert (ImageMagick) to get the
individual pages converted to jpg files. Or something
like that.

Joel