StarOffice: Slide sorter slow

[Net Llama!]

On 03/24/04 16:47, 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!

OK, then don't, but don't complain about how bloated PPT is on Linux 
when its forced to run VB.

> 
> 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.

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.

That's not learning, that's copying, something that M$ is quite good at, 
although they like to call it innovation.

> 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

Funny, its always worked for me for text.  Copy and paste.

> 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.

Or just get screenshots if you're that desperate to take what someone 
else didn't want you to have.

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