Lightweight Presentation Application

hank863 · 2009-04-05 04:58:27

Can anyone give me the name of a lightweight presentation application? I like OpenOffice Impress but I don't want all the bloat of OpenOffice.

skottish · 2009-04-05 05:27:08

I've never used it before, but I've heard about wink a few times. There's a package in AUR.

Berticus · 2009-04-05 06:06:51

Nowadays, if I need to give a presentation, and there are graphics to be displayed, I just use feh to display them. IMO, presentation software is highly ineffective and overrated.

firecat53 · 2009-04-05 06:36:09

You could create your presentation using the Latex beamer package or similar, then just use fullscreen evince, acroread, xpdf, or equivalent.

Scott

mikesd · 2009-04-05 07:04:29

I vote for the Latex beamer solution with xpdf. epdfviewer is a good gtk based viewer.

hank863 · 2009-04-05 18:41:16

I need something with support for .ppt files and editing them directly though.

keenerd · 2009-04-06 15:28:17

If you want to edit ppt, OO Impress is the only real game in town. Koffice and Goffice have some support, maybe they'll work for your files. Heck, give Lotus Symphony a try, though I doubt it is lighter than OO.

Personally, I use PDFs (made by whatever, everything from Inkscape to Beamer) and render them with Impressive. For pure shiny UI, it surpasses even Keynote. Seems Impressive recently made it into community, hooray. No excuse not to try it now :-)

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