Hello,

I am looking for a fast solution for putting few pics with little arrows with some WYSIWYG capabilities for Linux.

Why not python? Because it is slow, slow, ... inkscape is so slow, it is incredible.
Virtualbox with MS Office + win95 is so so slow as well.

It would be nice but it is for windows, and it does not allow to use it such as MS powerpoint.
http://www.tikzedt.org/quicktour.html

I use abiword for this!!! It is lightweight, but it is completely buggy when you move the pictures.

Any other alternative would be helpful ?

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The reason for not using LibreOffice Impress?

My CPU is not fast enough for Libreoffice.

JAVA, PYTHON, ... is considerably slow.

Abiword works very nicely.


Python Scripting is just simply as slow as a snail

While LibreOffice Impress improves little by little with each new release it still isn't as good as Powerpoint. Unfortunately, there presently isn't anything for Linux that can compete with Powerpoint.

Serious question.. what are the specifications of the machine you are running, and what distribution are you running on it, with what windowing system?

So what language do you think any office suite will be written in except C++, JAVA or Python these day? And you are making it sound like that Powerpoint on MS-Windows is a very lightweight solution, it is as slow as anything else.
You have no considerable options mate.

Regards.

Have you ever worked with Beamer? I confess to never having used any component of MS Office but having used Beamer for a couple of years, I find that there's very little that I can dream up that I can't implement in Beamer. Can you explain what makes you say that Beamer can't compete with Powerpoint?
jdk

Beamer? Never heard of it, until now.
My statement was based on using Powerpoint to play presentations. If you want to see a slideshow that was created in Powerpoint as it was meant to be seen, it is necessary to use Powerpoint.

Hi,

beamer is a LaTeX document class for making presentations (projectors are called "beamers" in some parts of the world). Typically a user would write a presentation in text editor in latex syntax making use of the beamer environments and commands, and then use pdflatex to generate a pdf file from it. Then the pdf file can be presented full screen on a large display (eg a projector or "beamer") to give the presentation.

I've been using it for many years on an almost a daily basis and have been very happy with it. However, since you specify WYSIWYG it's probably not going to suit you.

Evo2.

Then you might want to temper your statements about Linux a bit; at least until you're familiar with what really is available.
I don't really understand what this statement means. Is all sound kind of metaphysical ... "meant to be seen"? Please explain, I'm intrigued.
jdk

I can offer you texmaker as a front end to (La)TeX in general and Beamer in particular. Here's a video which will give you an idea of how it works.
jdk

For the benefit of those for whom LaTeX is an unfamiliar alternative; the pronunciation is as with a K on the end not an X. Lay-tek (/ˈleɪtɛk/).

It messes with fonts, font spacing formatting, images etc. It's fine going from openoffice/Libreoffice to PP but not the other way.

Sorry but why would you go from openoffice/Libreoffice to PP or the other way? If you're using Linux and only Linux then how could you go to Powerpoint? Don't you need to run Windows to have that? On the other hand, anyone running Windows can read a file produced by Libreoffice. So I don't see what the problem is.
jdk

I have been using LaTeX and beamer for years for my presentation and have been really happy with it.

If you really need a GUI then Texmaker is a good editor/IDE/GUI for those that want a near WYSIWYG experience.