CentOS - Aug 2005 - impress viewer for openoffice

Hi,

I am attempting to find an openoffice powerpower point viewer.

I found imposter but when I run my file it says "Cannot find zip
signature".
I though I would zip it up an try it again but that did not work either.

Also I dont think there is a way from the command line to go fullscreen? 
not sure.

Anyone know of a good power point viewer for centos?

or a way to make impress startup and go into slideshow mode?

Either is fine...

Jerry

Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am attempting to find an openoffice powerpower
> point viewer.
<attitude=on>
Don't call it that.  If you want people to stop calling any
presentation "Power Point" start by referring to it as a
"Presentation Viewer" or more OpenOffice.org/StarOffice
centric, an "Impress Viewer."  Some of us were using
StarImpress back in the mid-'90s, especially when it was far
better than PowerPoint.  ;->
</attitude>
> Also I dont think there is a way from the command line to
> go fullscreen?  not sure.
> Anyone know of a good power point viewer for centos?
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^
STOP!  I'm serious, this is the problem in the community
right now.  StarImpress has been around for over a decade,
and the generic term is "Presentation" not "Power Point(R)".
> or a way to make impress startup and go into slideshow
> mode?
You could actually build a self-contained, self-executing
StarImpress slideshow back in StarOffice 5.  I used to do it
all-the-time.

In OpenOffice.org/StarOffice 6+, you can now export a Flash
presentation.  It works very good, assuming you use fonts
that are Flash-friendly.


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Bryan,


THanks for the info. Correct terminology always helps.

I need to presentation files others send me.
After searching google for staroffice presentation player the viewer
was removed in staroffice 5.2. Crazy if you ask me....

So is there an alternative that you are aware for a presentation player?

Thanks so much.

Jerry



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Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com
<http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>>
wrote:
>/ Hi, I am attempting to find an openoffice powerpower
/>/ point viewer.
/
<attitude=on>
Don't call it that.  If you want people to stop calling any
presentation "Power Point" start by referring to it as a
"Presentation Viewer" or more OpenOffice.org/StarOffice
centric, an "Impress Viewer."  Some of us were using
StarImpress back in the mid-'90s, especially when it was far
better than PowerPoint.  ;->
</attitude>
>/ Also I dont think there is a way from the command line to
/>/ go fullscreen?  not sure.
/>/ Anyone know of a good power point viewer for centos?
/                        ^^^^^^^^^^^
STOP!  I'm serious, this is the problem in the community
right now.  StarImpress has been around for over a decade,
and the generic term is "Presentation" not "Power Point(R)".
>/ or a way to make impress startup and go into slideshow
/>/ mode?
/
You could actually build a self-contained, self-executing
StarImpress slideshow back in StarOffice 5.  I used to do it
all-the-time.

In OpenOffice.org/StarOffice 6+, you can now export a Flash
presentation.  It works very good, assuming you use fonts
that are Flash-friendly.

Bryan wrote: 
} Herein lies the problem.

it gets worse
:)
just reinstalled wine again to see it it works (still had the same home
dir with the windows apps in it) Opened a ppt file someone sent me with
the MS PP viewer to test it...all the pics are upside down! At least OOo
views it the right way up. Go figure.