Presentation programs may find IndeView useful. :-)

Hello,

just read your very interesting text on presentation programs
http://lwn.net/Articles/101846/
and I wonder if you might want to add a few words on IndeView?

:-)

Since you spoke about OpenOffice and about KOffice, it might be
interesting for readers, to learn that IndeView was made to convert
Impress and/or KPresenter presentations into a platform-independent
format that can be pressed onto a CD together with the small viewer
application.

So the user can send this CD to her customers/friends/whomever and let
them watch the presentation slides on their Linux, Mac OS/X or Windows
boxes: without the need of installing anything on their local harddisk.

Have a look: http://www.indeview.org

Note: IndeView is still in early development stage.
      It _is_ used in practice by many people already but it
      is limited since the current version can only show static
      images: no slide transision effects, no moving nor interactive
      parts inside a slide, no sound.

Still we like it - and work on making it better!  :-)

Cheers
Karl-Heinz
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