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Gnobody
April 22nd, 2005, 01:01 AM
Is there anything like Gnumeric or Abiword for PowerPoint?
KiwiNZ
April 22nd, 2005, 01:12 AM
Open Office has a brilliant alternative and will open Power Point presentations no probs
Adrenal
April 22nd, 2005, 01:19 AM
Open Office has a brilliant alternative and will open Power Point presentations no probs
OpenOffice2 does, Openoffice1's is pretty weak
jordanau
April 22nd, 2005, 01:23 AM
make sure you run your presentation in openoffice. If you convert it to microsoft powerpoint, it will look like crap without some changes. I learned that the hard way, in front of about 50 people.
benplaut
April 22nd, 2005, 02:57 AM
OpenOffice2 does, Openoffice1's is pretty weak

personaly, i think even Impress pre2.0 is also weak, compared to PowerPoint 2003/XP... for now i am content using cxoffice with powerpoint XP until Impress 3.0 comes out :)

just IMO
poofyhairguy
April 22nd, 2005, 04:12 AM
Is there anything like Gnumeric or Abiword for PowerPoint?


Unfortunately the answer is no.

http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/
benplaut
April 22nd, 2005, 05:34 AM
Unfortunately the answer is no.

http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/

i don't think Gnobody meant specific for Gnome... just open source...

correct me if i'm wrong....
dejitarob
April 22nd, 2005, 05:48 AM
personaly, i think even Impress pre2.0 is also weak, compared to PowerPoint 2003/XP...Why do you think so? It's presentation software. Not much to it besides text, pics and maybe sound if you want to be annoying ;-) I like Impress better actually due to the extra viewing modes.
benplaut
April 22nd, 2005, 06:25 AM
Why do you think so? It's presentation software. Not much to it besides text, pics and maybe sound if you want to be annoying ;-) I like Impress better actually due to the extra viewing modes.

well... i guess i am lying a bit... becuase i used 1.1.x alot, but have only played around a bit with pre2.0 ... one of the things really important (to me) is the ability to do advanced effects and animations. When you are presenting a food web, for example, it's nice to be able to gradually draw the lines onto the web as you talk about them (that was my latest escapade... took me 2 hours for one slide #-o
poofyhairguy
April 22nd, 2005, 07:49 AM
When you are presenting a food web, for example, it's nice to be able to gradually draw the lines onto the web as you talk about them (that was my latest escapade... took me 2 hours for one slide #-o

Ever tried using flash?
benplaut
April 22nd, 2005, 07:55 AM
Ever tried using flash?

yes.

Unfortunately, when putting flash into a .PPT... [-X (our school practically runs on .PPT)
TravisNewman
April 22nd, 2005, 12:21 PM
yes.

Unfortunately, when putting flash into a .PPT... [-X (our school practically runs on .PPT)
See, flashy powerpoint and flash just get in the way of information, IMO. Some flash doesn't, if it's done well, but information should be presented as clearly and concicely as possible.
Lovechild
April 22nd, 2005, 03:11 PM
What you want is Criawips, it's not ready yet though.
poofyhairguy
April 22nd, 2005, 05:08 PM
What you want is Criawips, it's not ready yet though.


Good call. Link:

http://www.nongnu.org/criawips/