At Sun, 25 Aug 2019 19:52:59 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services heller at deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services