From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 20 07:38:32 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 CE86116A4CE for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 07:38:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E1543D31 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 07:38:32 -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 i1KFcTr10322; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:38:29 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200402201538.i1KFcTr10322@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: martin.vana@vslib.cz (Martin Vana) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:38:28 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20040220082615.44673003.martin.vana@vslib.cz> from "Martin Vana" at Feb 20, 2004 08:26:15 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:38:32 -0000 > > 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. You might prefer installing Openoffice as a precompiled package because it is very large and takes a long time and a lot of resources to build from ports. Go to: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ They have a package for FreeBSD download it to /usr/local and run pkg-add on the .tgz file. Then run /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/soffice Unfortunately, the instructions incorrectly says to run openoffice instead of soffice to get the setup going. Also, the install allows you to replace the installation path. I suggest you leave it as /usr/local, but change that OpenOffice.org1.1.0 part to something a little more friendly. The essential callable binaries will be put in /usr/local/bin so you will need to have that in your path and do a rehash. Also, there are two files - one is soffice.cfg and I don't remember the other at the moment (and am not near my system with openoffice) that it will complain it can't find when you try to run something. Just go to the directory they are expected to be in .../openoffice/conf I think, and do touch soffice.cfg and the same to the other one. An empty file is OK. You may add config things later if you discover the need. Also, don't wory about when it complains some Java stuff isn't present so certain features won't be available. I haven't found anything that won't work because of it. Probably something obsure or cutsie. Have fun, ////jerry > Thank you > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >