OpenOffice Presentation [was Re: [Israel.pm] YAPC submissions guidelines (light!)]

[Shlomi Fish]

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On Sunday 04 January 2004 02:10, you wrote:
> On Saturday 03 January 2004 18:21, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Generally, I think it is ironic that open source advocates like us do not
> > accept the most common open source presentation tool for our own
> > conference.
>
> You are completely right in this (IMO). Did you try to export as PDF?
> (Acrobat Reader should be available even on inferior-non-free platforms,
> while on Linux you have in addition xpdf(1) and gv(1)).

I did. However, it seems that the effects are lost. (all these cross-fading, 
one points at a time, etc.). And so it detracts from the presentation value.

BTW, are you planning to give any lecture to Haifux or Israel.PM (or Telux) 
soon? I don't believe I ever heard you giving a talk.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> "Software is like Entropy: it's hard to grasp, weighs nothing and obeys the 
> Second Law of Thermodynamics, i.e. it always increases" 
>        -- Norman Augustine 

See this discussion:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hackers-il/message/1587

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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