Presentation tools for Linux?

[bsdstud]

I like Powerpoint well enough. I think that Keynote is a great presentation tool. I find that OpenOffice Impress falls flat on its face on many counts. Some of the features are pretty nice, but the interface is buggy, and it crashes often

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[madhatte]

I haven't had any trouble with any of the bits of OpenOffice. In fact, I once had it open a PowerPoint presentation that PowerPoint wouldn't open!

What about StarOffice? I haven't looked at it in years, so I have no idea what those guys are up to.

[bsdstud]

Well, so StarOffice became OpenOffice, so it's gone.

Things that crash OO.o for me:

Toy around with bullet points and look at the tab stops. Sometimes it gives you 2 tabs instead of one, so tab back. That'll screw around with the line above the bullet you're typing sometimes. If you fight with it, OO.o will go boom.

Try cutting and pasting slides or loading large presentations, sometimes that goes boom.

[adamch]

I've used OpenOffice for my last 5 or so conference presentations, and I've not really had any trouble. I wonder what you're complaining about in particular re: its performance.

[bsdstud]

The two points that bugged me were the behavior of the bullet points in the editor (shift-tab to move the bullets to the left didn't always behave as expected), which was a bit inconsistent, and the copy/paste behavior on slides.

There were two or three things that I could do that made OpenOffice crash, also, related to copy/paste behavior.