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[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Following your discussion, I was very surprised about this possibility. 
The only thing I might miss is a way to use two-screen display 
(monitor/beamer) to be able to click into a certain page while the 
presentation is running. Do you know if Adobe Reader for instance offers 
this way?

Am 29.09.2010 15:34, schrieb Steven Dayton:
> As others have said use PDF for your presentation. Besides Adobe
> Reader there are several other PDF readers out there that are fast
> downloads and fast installs that can be used to display simple PDFs.
>
> If you wanted to add some punch to the presentation and you have
> access to Acrobat 9 Professional you can add movie clips and Flash
> elements to the PDF presentation. Maybe you are wanting to use open
> source software which excludes expensive Acrobat but I thought I would
> just mention the possibilities.
>
> Good luck.
>
> StevenD
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:08 AM, peter linnell<plinnell at scribus.info>  wrote:
>>
>> On 9/29/10 7:54 AM, a.l.e wrote:
>>>
>>> hi john jason,
>>>
>>>
>>>> But after downloading it I discovered that (evidently) OOo Impress
>>>> cannot place any vector files. In the Insert Picture menu the only
>>>> formats listed are raster image formats. But I know I can place vector
>>>> images in Writer documents, so now I'm off to OOo mailing list to see
>>>> if there is some library or another missing from my OOo 3.1. It
>>>> doesn't make any sense that I cannot place vector images in Impress.
>>>
>>> you may use scribus to create your presentations...
>>>
>>> iirc, it can place vector files.
>>>
>>> ciao
>>> a.l.e
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>> I second this... I've not done a presentation in anything but Scribus for years.
>>
>> You can include transition effects etc in PDF.
>>
>> http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=pdfexport4
>>
>> Seeing my colleagues here struggle with Office/OpenOffice "helpfully" changing the layout depending on the machine which opens the files.
>>
>> Once in PDF format the presentation displays exactly the same. I do recommend using Adobe Reader for the demo/presentation.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Peter
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> StevenD
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> So you want it fast, good, and cheap. Choose any two.
>
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