<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 30/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John G Walker</b> <<a href="mailto:johngwalker@tiscali.co.uk">johngwalker@tiscali.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:28:16 +0100 Tethys <<a href="mailto:sta296@astradyne.co.uk">sta296@astradyne.co.uk</a>><br>wrote:<br><br>> --------<br>><br>> Christopher Hunter writes:<br>><br>> >> 2. Presentation Software. (nothing competes with Powerpoint
<br>> >> unfortunately)<br>> ><br>> >The "flakiness" factor in Powerpoint makes it mostly unusable in<br>> >reality.<br>><br>> Wow. It's amazing how distorted a view of the world you can have
<br>> when you're cloistered in a small community. Powerpoint may have<br>> its faults, but to claim its unusable it just laughable, given<br>> the millions around the world that use it on a daily basis.<br>>
<br><br>Just as it's a bit strange to complain that Impress doesn't compete<br>with it. Unless you're running Windows 98SE. Impress doesn't work<br>properly on W98SE. But we're supposed to be talking about Impress under
<br>Linux here.<br><br>All the time, I take (non-flaky) PowerPoint presentations on USB sticks<br>and display them using (non-flaky) Impress,</blockquote><div><br> </div><br></div>Hmm Have not really used Impress but I will take a better look at it. It suffers from the bloat that is OO though and it does not have dual screen control (even under windows (like power point)
<br><br>Peter Childs<br>