Freshmeat: dvd-slideshow<br><a href="http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page">http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:29 PM, John Mills <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnmills@speakeasy.net">johnmills@speakeasy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">ALErs -<br>
<br>
With no prior experience I'm using OpenOffice 'Impress' to package about<br>
100 digital photos as a slide show. Since the files are good quality<br>
photos, the resulting presentation is getting _BBEEEGGGG_ (c.250MBy). The<br>
problem: it's become glacially slow to work on!<br>
<br>
What is a good image size/resolution for JPEG slides to be viewed on<br>
computer display - say 1680x1050 (WSXGA) or smaller? Would the answer be<br>
very different for a typical digital projector (bearing in mind the<br>
viewing distance would be considerably larger and having no idea of the<br>
usual projector's resolution)?<br>
<br>
Is there some automatic way to have the slides imported (or alternatively<br>
saved) in a reduced format, or should I use some other tool like GIMP or<br>
ImageMagick to resize them? (They aren't all the same size due to some<br>
cropping and some images coming from different cameras.)<br>
<br>
If most users have Ms 'PoserPoint' to view the slides, should I expect<br>
major problems with a presentation exported from OpenOffice as '*.ppt'?<br>
<br>
I was targeting CD and planning to include the original photo files in a<br>
separate directory. (There would be space.) DVD would be OK if there were<br>
advantages to the medium or some especially handy packaging tool<br>
available.<br>
<br>
General suggestions welcomed as well.<br>
<br>
TIA.<br>
- Mills<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Ale mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III <br><br>