StarOffice: Slide sorter slow

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004, Joel Hammer wrote:
>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!

I go back to my original suggestion, create your presentations in HTML, and
forget the powerpoint stuff.  It's far easier to deal with images, html is
easy to create from databases with standard text processing tools, and the
presentation can be run from any browser.

Bill
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