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Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.orgMeeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.orgPosted Oct 16, 2008 14:15 UTC (Thu) by kamil (subscriber, #3802)In reply to: Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org by forthy Parent article: Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org
No offense meant, but I think you must be very young...
I'm with you on the use of LaTeX for document writing. I too use gnuplot for my graphs, but I did switch from xfig to inkscape (the GUI of the former would drive me nuts).
I made a few presentations in LaTeX, but then I switched to OOo. Why? Because of issues with sharing. Slides are shared a lot more than documents. In a collaborative environment (aren't they all?), people exchange slides from each others' presentations all the time. Unless you don't have any co-workers, or they are all as huge LaTeX fans as you are (in my experience, unlikely, even among programmers), using something radically different for your slides than the rest of the crew is a big PITA. OOo is close enough to PowerPoint to make importing and exporting practical, and that really helps.
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Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org Posted Oct 25, 2008 16:27 UTC (Sat) by linuxrocks123 (guest, #34648) [Link]
I also use LaTeX for presentations, and my approach to the sharing slides problem is to first convert other people's slides to PDF (if they aren't already in PDF), then create a Makefile that uses GhostScript to splice and reweave the output of SLiTeX with the slides I want to import.
If someone wants to use my slides in PowerPoint ... well, they have the PDF, and PowerPoint can import PDFs as images at least, right?
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