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How Do You Share Presentations Under Linux?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-the-same-page-in-different-locations dept.

Dr_Hajj asks: "I don't like giving presentations. I do my best to avoid having to. Unfortunately, I've been unable to dodge the latest request to give a little talk. This talk is to be presented to folks at several remote locations so there's a need for some sharing technology. How do Linux desktop users out there share presentations with others on the net?"

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  1. PDF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    PDF

    1. Re:PDF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      I don't hate PDFs. PDFs are a great file format. What I hate is clicking a link and having my computer slow to a crawl for several seconds as some bloated PDF-reader plugin loads.

  2. PDF by Skuld-Chan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know everyone on Slashdot hates PDF (I don't), but its a dandy presentation format. Acrobat Reader supports fullscreen transisitions and even if you don't like Acrobat - other PDF viewers suffice. Plus it works on most any Unix platform (Adobe natively supports AIX, HPUX, Linux and Mac).

  3. Presentation by md_lasalle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The best way to make sure your presentation works on every system, is simply making a swf Flash file...and target Flash 7 or less (very important since linux doesnt support flash 8 yet) and embed the .swf file in an HTML file. works great!

    1. Re:Presentation by moonka · · Score: 3, Insightful

      What if they need to print it out? I frequently print out teacher's slides.

  4. Missing the point? by Micah · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think nearly everyone here is missing the point.

    At my organization's recent annual meeting, we had several sites on two different continents. PowerPoint (I know, yuck) presentations were shared between locations with GoToMeeting. The presenter moved to the next slide, and all the remote sites updated automatically, in almost real time.

    Can *that* be done with Linux?

    (The Java JXTA mentioned above is the only response so far that may be an answer.)

  5. Re:PDF using Evince by Novus · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Xpdf may be fugly as hell (it's a motif/lesstif app), but there really isn't any replacement for it yet.


    How about KPDF? Based on the xpdf engine, integrates nicely with KDE, more compatible than Acrobat Reader 7 in my experience (either that, or my students use really weird PDF generators).