libreoffice-impress
This package contains the presentation component for LibreOffice.
Latest reviews
ALWAYS crashes when adding (with preview) or viewing the second OpenGL slide transition. First one works perfectly. Second one, BAM! Crashes
I've prepared 52 presentations per year since 2005. Keynote was great... but when I broke free of the iChains to jump elsewhere, I found that Apple's propriotary file formats didn't port well. (Apple only supports Apple... if you keep buying their new hardware) MS's PowerPoint was pretty handy. Impress lacks the animations/transitions Apple users depend on, and lacks the raw power of PowerPoint (IMHO), but it does do something that these other packages hadn't been able to deliver... By shifting the focus to the content, rather than the presentation, it forced me to actually have something worth saying. Slides went from hogging the lesson to illustrating the lesson. It also forced me to become creative in building my own artwork, instead of relying on a preset of 'California Designer Approved' art. Each update seems to open up new features. Simple and straight forward, remains a wonderful replacement for other major presentation software packages. If I HAD to find a gripe, it would be with the presenter notes feature that could use a little polish. Overall, I've found that my Impress docs are a smaller file size than my PowerPoint docs ever were. Scoring 5 all day long with this one! Thank you, LibreOffice crew! The short description above doesn't do this amazing package justice!
Impress has less functions then powerpoint which is a huge advantage:
- focuse to the content
- it forces more simplicity
- you will save time
- listeners to the presentation get less dizzy
- your employees spent more time on their tasks but playing powerpoint
- first step to migration to freeware is made
- pretend to know more than you really do
- your presentation focuses on your presentation abilities not the content
- your subject is not interesting enough and you need special features to keep the auditory awake (when blender is of better use than powerpoint)
I use it for all my presentations, but usually export to PDF as not all conference computers have LibreOffice installed.
