[Nottingham] Suggestions for viewing Powerpoint slides...

[Eaton, Jon (Corp)]

Thanks for all the suggestions, looks like openoffice is the answer.
Especially as I've been able to locate a higher spec laptop with more
disk space etc.
 
Regards,
Jon
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[mailto:nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Richard
Morris
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 8:03 AM
To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Suggestions for viewing Powerpoint slides...

On Friday 29 Apr 2005 12:52, Joe Wrigley wrote:
> Spandex wrote:
> > EJC> I've thought about converting them to PDF's and doing it that
way
> > but EJC> I've been unable to find any sw to do that in the windows
world
> > without EJC> introducing significant defects in the graphics.
> >
> > Have you had look for powerpoint to flash converters?  I don't know
> > any off the top of my head, but there's a reasonable chance that one
> > exists I reckon.
>
> Err, like OpenOffice? It can export to Flash, I believe.

Microsoft have a free viewer for powerpoint, most versions work under
wine.

Richard




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