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Which software is avaliable in DSL to create slides for a presentation?

I did not found MagicPoint :-( Is there something like it?

Thanks
Andrea

I haven't tried it out yet, but I think the OpenOffice package usually has a "Powerpoint" compatible slide creator. I've only tried OO under windoze (yeah, I'll get to it under dsl soon), so I don't know if the package is the same, but the windoze one was very nice, even exported as swf (Flash).

But you need a fair bit of RAM (at least 128MB recommended last I checked) to run OO.

Don't know about any stand-alone packages, never had the need to look for one yet. Maybe you could enquire whether a MagicPoint .dsl can be made?

The OpenOffice act-alike for Presentations is Impress.

Details here -

http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html

I don't know if this is included in the tarball on the MyDSL repository - 'Robert' packaged it, I wonder if he knows, please? Note on MyDSL says "requires 384M RAM".

MagicPoint is a source-only release, 880KBytes. It builds cleanly on a debian system (not attempted on DSL) with gcc version 2.95.4. I think it will need some nice fonts to go with it.

DeeJay

I'm not sure why the info file says 384MB ram needed.
Perhaps that info is dated.. , or an extreme circumstance.
I've run it on MUCH less...

Here is the requirements text, cut from openoffice.org itself..

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How much memory do I need ?

Generally 64-128MB is needed, but it is system and version dependent.
For Windows and Linux a minimum of 64 megabytes is recommended
but 128 megabytes or more would be better.
Several people have run OpenOffice.org on 16 MB machines
and even though it takes quite a while to start,
they were very quite happy with its usability.

How much disk space do I need ?

For version 1.1 you will need about 215 MB for a complete installation.

and yes, the impress is included with the version found here, and works very nicely.
I'm looking forward to a newer 2.0.x.dsl version soon, I've read some wonderful things about it.

73
ke4nt

also you may want to try imposter an application that is meant to SHOW presentations you create with impress.

if you happen to have a low-resource hardware, you cannot take advantage of impress and openoffice (believe me, you really can't

)
but maybe you have another pc where you can use impress..and then..use imposter for showing those files in a public presentation..or just for yourself.

that's the goal of the program.

don't know if it's available via synaptic, but a debian package exists.

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