I was wondering while OpenOffice is a great office suite that does all of the things I want, I was wonderign what other alternatives exist. I knwo there is abiword for word processing, GNUmeric for spread sheets and inkscape for vecror drawing. The thing thatmissing there is presentation software. Are there any applications that are for making presentations that can save them in the powerpoitn format, as my universaty only has windows on most of the machines runnign MS office and not openoffice.

I know there is siag affice as well. If anyone has any suggestions as well as if they are available in the Debian repos as I dont have much luck when it comes to compiling software even if I use checkinstall, buts thats a different matter.

Thanks in advance

Michael

There is an app called MagicPoint for presentations. KDE also has koffice, but some of the apps are not very mature although its rapidly improving.

If you just have to have MS Office format ... That's why we have dual boot systems.

I dont duel boot this. machine only has Linux on it. I have to use ms office formats for when i do presentation in uni or hand documents in electronically unless i convert them to pdf. None of the machiens were we are accesed on lectures have linux on them so i cant boot up them to do it.

So if anyone else has any other suggestions for slide show software that is compatable with powerpoint, othwerwise il just have to stick with openoffice.

Iv tried koffice in the past and I really didnt like it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magicpoint

Redazz mentioned magicpoint, that wiki entry also refers to Kpresenter, a KDE implementation of presentation software, included in koffice maybe try that? KDE is getting better and better, what you tried maybe be an old version, who knows

you can create HTML slideshows from that, much better that .ppt