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Powerpoint (ppt) alternative for linux client

Asked by Federico Allegretti

Hello.

I always used (still from amiga 500 times) scala to display my slideshows
(here a vintage demo video :( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydBd-yBFR20 ) but in this period i decided to move on the linux platform, so have to replace scala products with some other stuff.

My collegues need to use some pretty easy tool to draw pages (open office impress?) and don't care about the way they are displayed.

Any chance to use the powerpoint clone (or the powerpoint files generated in some mistery ways) with linux clients?

Thanks a lot and have a nice day :D

Federico

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

You probably want to look at converting the Presentation to a video file. That's trivia on Office 2010 but I've never tried with Open Office.

That's where I'd look

Alex

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Federico Allegretti (allegfede) said : 		#2

video? but xibo do not have 5 Mb limit for video files?

30 or 40 pages (30sec each) at 1280x720 with cross dissolve .... i suppose it wil be larger then 5MB :(

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Joerg Schuster (joerg-schuster) said : 		#3

Hi,

there is no Video limit, maybe you mean the php file size limit:

https://answers.launchpad.net/xibo/+faq/510

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Federico Allegretti (allegfede) said : 		#4

interesting, i give it a try :D

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Rick Squires (r-t-squires) said : 		#5

FWIW we use video output from Powerpoint 2010. It's much more reliable in our system(Win 7 clients/Xibo 1.2.2 on a Windows server). We found that powerpoint was crashing regularly with our files - basically lots of slides with a runtime of 5-6 minutes.

The video files play sweetly(plus you get all the fancy transition effects too)

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Joerg Schuster (joerg-schuster) said : 		#6

Hi,

we use a lot of Xibo Clients (70+) and tons of powerpoints without any crashing....

But I had some registry settings that I write every boot into the registry, since that, we had no troubles with it.
(Officially Microsoft fixes for Powerpoint)

The cool thing with the video is, you dont need a office license for every client!

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