From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-07-06T06:09:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.com

In article <3F0676E2.6060805@path.berkeley.edu>,
Joel VanderWerf  <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>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 

....well, depends on what ppt you're trying to read in.  I've not had great 
luck with it reading ppt's.

>and export to PDF. Actually, I've only tried on 
>linux, but it does a nice job.

Yes, OpenOffice does produce PDFs.  It also has it's own presentation 
maker which I've used to create a couple of presentations.

Phil