From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 21 10:56:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75CB116A4CE for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:56:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E3743D1F for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:56:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i1LIufl15211; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:56:41 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200402211856.i1LIufl15211@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl (Alex de Kruijff) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:56:41 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20040220231250.GD854@alex.lan> from "Alex de Kruijff" at Feb 21, 2004 12:12:50 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Jerry McAllister cc: Martin Vana cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: power point X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 18:56:47 -0000 > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:38:28AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > > hi, > > > is there a way to convert ms powerpoint presentation into jpegs? > > > or to view it under Freebsd? > > > > Install Openoffice. It has a presenter that can open Powerpoint > > files to show them or incorporate them in to presentations. > > > > You might have to tinker around to get things like you are used > > to, but it should work. > > It takes about 8 to 12 hours to compile it. But, only a few minutes to install as a package. Again, check out: http://projects.imp.ch.openoffice/ ////jerry > > -- > Alex >