[ale] NewbieQ on OO/Impress for photo slide shows

[Jim Kinney]

Freshmeat: dvd-slideshow
http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:29 PM, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> ALErs -
>
> With no prior experience I'm using OpenOffice 'Impress' to package about
> 100 digital photos as a slide show. Since the files are good quality
> photos, the resulting presentation is getting _BBEEEGGGG_ (c.250MBy). The
> problem: it's become glacially slow to work on!
>
> What is a good image size/resolution for JPEG slides to be viewed on
> computer display - say 1680x1050 (WSXGA) or smaller? Would the answer be
> very different for a typical digital projector (bearing in mind the
> viewing distance would be considerably larger and having no idea of the
> usual projector's resolution)?
>
> Is there some automatic way to have the slides imported (or alternatively
> saved) in a reduced format, or should I use some other tool like GIMP or
> ImageMagick to resize them? (They aren't all the same size due to some
> cropping and some images coming from different cameras.)
>
> If most users have Ms 'PoserPoint' to view the slides, should I expect
> major problems with a presentation exported from OpenOffice as '*.ppt'?
>
> I was targeting CD and planning to include the original photo files in a
> separate directory. (There would be space.) DVD would be OK if there were
> advantages to the medium or some especially handy packaging tool
> available.
>
> General suggestions welcomed as well.
>
> TIA.
>  - Mills
>
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