On 08/25/2019 09:59 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Sun, 25 Aug 2019 19:52:59 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
I am looking for software to make slideshows/presentations on CentOS, incorporating photos, videos and text (possibly also music) allowing for transition effects etc. I'd like to be able to drag and drop/rearrange photos etc. from different folders into a timeline and eventually end up with something I can show. Ideally without having to make copies of photos and store them in a folder specific for this but drag and drop from whatever folder the photo etc. already exists in.
Impress and similar PowerPoint-like software excluded.
I have found a few packages on the net but nothing that is still being developed.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
LaTeX Beamer package will do much of that, I don't believe it will handle either videos or music, but without anysort of point and click or drag and drop GUI -- LaTeX Beamer is strictly CLI-based (well there might be GUI frontends out there for LaTeX, but I doubt anything specific for Beamer, and likely not partitularly like what you seem to be asking for).
What you are describing *IS* what LibreOffice's Impress does. In the mess-windows and MacOSX world, this nitch is covered by PowerPoint (pretty much to the exclusion of any other tools, except maybe some high-end [expensive] tools) and in the Linux world, Impress covers this nitch (again pretty much to the exclusion of any other tools). Quoting from the Highlander: "There Can Be Only One". So if you are excluding Impress and similar PowerPoint-like software, you are pretty much left with no options (as you seem to have already discovered).
Note: *I* have never used any MS-Windows software (including PowerPoint) and personally don't have much use for any of the LibreOffice package (I only use them from their laughable "CLI" interface [eg with the silly --headless option, that only works when the DISPLAY env var is actually bound to a X11 display, which needs to be there, to not use] to convert mess-word and excel files to PDF).
Thank you.
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I am looking for something that is more capable than Impress. Although I use LibreOffice/OpenOffice daily, Impress does not address this need.