[PLUG] web/flash slide show tools

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for an alternative to OpenOffice.org for slide shows,
> and thinking about web-like alternatives that I can run through
> with firefox.  The major problem now is OOo Impress's poor support
> for embedded movies and animation - you have to add many extra
> java packages, and it is slow.  Portability is also an issue.
>
> My slide shows are graphics heavy and text light - I am not
> interested in fancy moving arrows and text and frame-to-frame
> dissolves.  I build a lot of my slides with C programs and libgd.
> I can use the open source "swftools" to turn PNG frames into
> Flash movies.
>
> Content creation is not much of an issue, but displaying it the
> way I want it is a big issue.  I want to use a USB wireless
> presenter style remote, which generates the keyclicks and
> mouseclicks that OOo Impress and Powerpoint and others can be
> driven with.  I don't want to be tied down to a mouse (even a
> wireless one) if I can avoid it.
>
> Suggestions?

I haven't used this, but it looks pretty good. If you go with this, I
can help you get the Ruby piece set up. :)

http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/tutorial.html

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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