From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-07-05T16:22:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel VanderWerf" <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 1:57 AM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.com


> Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> ...
> > Powerpoint can't export as .ps or .pdf -- it can
> > do a few formats such as .rtf and some graphical
> > formats.
> 
> There's openoffice, which runs on windows (as well as linux) and can 
> read PPT quite well and export to PDF. Actually, I've only tried on 
> linux, but it does a nice job.

Hmm, I have OpenOffice 1.0.1 on Red Hat. I can
certainly open the .ppt, but I can't see a way
to save as a .pdf -- for some reason, Export 
has more options than Save As (counterintuitive
to me), but the nearest thing is .eps I think.

Hal

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