From: Michael Whapples <mwhapples@aim.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Reading powerpoint presentations in Linux
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:32:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190392364.10799.4.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070921132432.GZ6144@rednote.net>
Thank you to everyone who has answered this question. I will try out
those options (particularly things like ppthtml and catppt). How well
does Orca actually work with impress? Sometimes these GUI apps can be
more hassle than they are worth.
From
Michael Whapples
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 09:24 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Not with Speakup, but you should have some level of success using Orca
> and Open Office Impress. Please note that accessibility to PowerPoint is
> problematic at best. The technical committees in charge of the ODF
> protocols used by Open Office are working to improve that. But, of
> course, this will only improve the odf files, and not Microsoft's Power
> Point files, for the usual proprietary versus open source reasons.
>
> Janina
>
> Michael Whapples writes:
> > Hello,
> > I know this may be a bit much to hope for, but is there anyway to read powerpoint presentations in Linux? I of course am using speakup, but I also have got gnome and orca installed should it require using something like openoffice (should orca work with that part). I have asked the person who has said that they can give me this information in powerpoint format, whether they could convert it to another format, but I said I would make enquiries whether it would be possible for me to read powerpoint format.
> >
> > From
> > Michael Whapples
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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