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

[Jonathan Meek]

Ron,

Nothing against LibreOffice, I was just looking for something to expand my
horizons a bit. I have been using an office application for all my
presentations. Just needing a challenge because I need one :)

Regards,

Jonathan
On Oct 9, 2013 7:14 PM, "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >> > _______________________________________________
> >> > Ale mailing list
> >> > Ale at ale.org
> >> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> >> > See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> >> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Stephen Leonard
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Ale mailing list
> >> Ale at ale.org
> >> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> >> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> >> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
> >>
> >
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Ale mailing list
> >Ale at ale.org
> >http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> >See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> >http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>
> --
>
> Sent from my Android Acer A500 tablet with bluetooth keyboard and K-9 Mail.
> Please excuse my potential brevity if I'm typing on the touch screen.
>
> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
> call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
> mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new email messages very
> quickly.)
>
> Ron Frazier
> 770-205-9422 (O)   Leave a message.
> linuxdude AT techstarship.com
> Litecoin: LZzAJu9rZEWzALxDhAHnWLRvybVAVgwTh3
> Bitcoin: 15s3aLVsxm8EuQvT8gUDw3RWqvuY9hPGUU
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20131010/01ade8e0/attachment.html>