[ale] Non-flash, Non-Office Presentation tool

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi Jonathan,

I (personally) don't think Windows machines are evil.  I Use 'em all the time.  I use Linux Mint and Android too.  Whatever tool works.  Having said that, I may never buy anything past Windows 7.

To the topic of our post.  I'm not saying the following is the best way to do your presentation, but it is a possible way.

Most every computer OS has the following, a file manager, a photo viewer, and an image editor.  That's all you need to present.

Use the image editor to create your slides.  Size the canvas to the same proportions as your screen OR the proportions of the projector you'll use.  Create or load the background image.  Add text.  Add clip art and or photos.  Save the image as PNG or GIF.

Repeat for each slide.  Name them with identical case specific prefix names and add a numerical suffix.  Like: ale-2013-10-0001.png.

Open the file manager and display the directory of images.  Sort by name.

Double click the first one and the photo viewer should open.  Switch to full screen view.  You should be able to view the images in sequence just by clicking the next button in the viewer.

That's it.  A way to do a slide show with only the built in OS tools.

Just curious, why no Libre Office?

Sincerely,

Ron



Jonathan Meek <jonathan.l.meek at gmail.com> wrote:

>Thanks to everyone on the ideas thus far. I will make to make a note of
>which I ended up using for the presentation and I promise not to be
>presenting on a Windows machine like last time :-P. Looking forward to
>presenting next month!
>
>Regards,
>
>Jonathan
>
>
>On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Stephen Leonard
><stephen.leonard at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Check out HTML Slidy.  I don't have prior experience with it, but
>> I'm in the process of creating a presentation with it.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 11:07:31AM -0400, Jonathan Meek wrote:
>> > Hey everyone,
>> >
>> > I am looking for a way to do my upcoming ALE talk next month
>without
>> using
>> > LibreOffice or an online presentation service (e.g. Google Docs). I
>think
>> > recall that someone in our group gave a talk using basically a HTML
>app
>> that
>> > was a slideshow (I could be just imagining it, Masters Degree sleep
>> deprivation
>> > will do that to you). Anyways, if anyone has any ideas or thoughts,
>they
>> would
>> > be most helpful.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Jonathan
>>
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