__/ [Karl S] on Sunday 25 December 2005 18:51 \__
> Yvonne wrote:
>> Yvonne wrote:
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> __/ [Dan C] on Saturday 24 December 2005 18:50 \__
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:59:43 +0000, Yvonne wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I wonder if anyone can tell me how to install Impress without
>>>>>> installing
>>>>>> the whole package Open office? I use Mandriva.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You can't do that, AFAIK.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think so too. This is a self-contained package with plenty of
>>>> overlap among
>>>> its pertinent modules. Take the variety of graphical objects, for
>>>> example.
>>>> These is being used in merely all components of OpenOffice, I suspect.
>>>>
>>>> Roy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have found a beta version of the application here
>>> http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/impress/Download.html.
>>>
>>> Yvonne
>>
>>
>> Hi again!
>>
>> What I want is an application to read pps-files and I don't like
>> openoffice since it takes too much recources. It doesn't need to be an
>> advanced application (for the moment), just a viewer. I also want to get
>> a presentationsoftware, that doesn't need to be able to read pps-files.
>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> Yvonne
As Dough pointed out, there is a viewer, but it's a Windows executable.
With the emulation overheads, I don't know if it will be any less of a re-
source hog than OpenOffice, sitting on top of Java Runtime Environment. It
sounds rather 'on par' to me. I often think of JRE as some form of re-
source-greedy platform, which makes development quicker and makes interop-
erability a thing of the past.
> Other than hard drive space, which is plentiful and cheap these days,
> OpenOffice Impress running alone shouldn't take any less of your
> computer's resources than installing the entire OpenOffice suite and
> then launching only the Impress module. That would give you a suite of
> presentation software of sorts, depending on your needs.
> Impress also creates pretty good PDF documents.
I couldn't agree more.
I thought about the possibility of deleting the Writer and Calc executa-
bles among others. That would only save a mere amount of desk space, which
is cheap these days. Getting accustomed to OO is worthwhile. Try it. It's
a skill worth acquiring, looking at the long run.
Best wishes,
Roy
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