![]() ![]() ![]() Then use that base image for 1 or more slides in OpenOffice where you draw over it with Arrows, Simple Blocks, and Text. Don’t add much text or any arrows showing flow, as OpenOffice does this reasonably. ![]() What I’ve recently found works best is to create a base image in inkscape with all your elements you are trying to explain. If you try, you can get stuff that is clearly 100x better. While it has the disadvantage of being a different tool then OpenOffice it has the distinct advantage that nearly anything drawn in Inkscape looks about 10x better than OpenOffice drawings, without even trying. Inkscape’s native format is SVG, which is vector based, and thus scalable to any size without looking bad. While Inkscape requires a little more freehanding of shapes, the control over those graphics, and how pretty they look on export, entire makes up for that. I originally stumbled upon it when creating block diagrams in Dia, which while pretty straight forward, again looks like poo if you’ve got anything that isn’t a vertical or horizontal line in it. Inkscape is largely designed for graphic artists (which I will not claim to be by any stretch), and has all the sort of drawing tools you would expect for that. Inkscape is a vector graphics program that would be comparable to Adobe Illustrator (though it’s been 9 years since I last used Illustrator, so I don’t claim any ability to compare them). What is a budding presenter that wants to stay on Linux to do?Ībout 2 years ago, I found Inkscape. Thus you end up with reasonably nice looking fonts, and graphics that look like MacPaint circa 1996. While OpenOffice will antialias fonts (making them smooth), it won’t do so for graphic elements. There is a drawing tool in OpenOffice to create them, which is a little clumsy, but works. OpenOffice Impress is a reasonable clone of PowerPoint, though certain things like Animation, work very poorly in OpenOffice, and you can’t insert a table (grrrrr….).Īny good presentation has graphics or diagrams in it. If you are a Linux user, and you have ever had to give presentations, you probably used OpenOffice Impress to do it. ![]()
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