StarOffice: Slide sorter slow

[Roger Oberholtzer]

You really should have made XML macros. Then you could either: import
into SO/OO, convert to HTML, and probably generate PDF. I would imagine
that PP and that group can do XML import as well. XML seem to be more
generic. 

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 04:26, Joel Hammer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 05:42:14PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I looked into html and pdf before I decided I had to use
> powerpoint.  Four people prepare presentations using this
> system. Powerpoint (or SO/OO) allows:
> 1. One click importation of images (after you write the macros yourself).
> 2. Labelling of images.
> 3. Insertion of text slides into the presentation.
> 4. Sorting of the slides.
> 5. Some image editing like arrows and brightness. 
> 
> Slide sorting was actually the biggest single reason why
> I had to go with powerpoint. I couldn't find any other
> way in windows to sort slides. In linux, I wrote my own
> slide sorter software using XV and the visual schnauzer
> as the directory viewer, but this was clumsy compared to
> software like SO and powerpoint.
> 
> Joel
> 
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