[ale] NewbieQ on OO/Impress for photo slide shows

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey)]

John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> With no prior experience I'm using OpenOffice 'Impress' to package about 
> 100 digital photos as a slide show. Since the files are good quality 
> photos, the resulting presentation is getting _BBEEEGGGG_ (c.250MBy). The 
> problem: it's become glacially slow to work on!

After putting some thought to this, I'm wondering if you wouldn't be 
better off doing it in html.  They simply open the index.html file with 
the browser and you use the refresh  meta tag or a simple click arrow 
for the next image.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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