Sayonara

Well, that'll teach you to use AIM, won't it?

I think I know where this belongs.

"Win" Ho ho ho

Mmmm, chewy microwave plasma.

Do your own homework

That's (A) an artificial situation, and (B) wrong anyway. So quite a bad example really. If you want to demonstrate something about humans, describe it in terms of humans - not in terms of fictional situations involving other species.

Radical... ~~~ /o o\ [ ] \ = / | | It's called a 'head', dude.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2399773.stm This is pretty unbelievable. I'll be interested to see what an independant international body have to say, should any go out there to verify SPANA's tests.

Ummm... should it? I was rather of the opinion that evolution dealt with continuation, not origins.

You again fail to address the fact that PPS cannot run on Unix, Linux, Solaris, Tru64, HP-UX, SCO, IRIX, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD or Macs You also fail to address that while presentations made in PPS will not run on these operating systems, the reverse is not always true. Again I think I ought to remind you of my original post: In this post I attempted to communicate that I personally do not see any need to create PPS content. I go on to infer that people whose skills lie in other areas may or may not have the need, depending on their industry. I am not responsible for your failure to understand such an inference. The whole issue you are continuing to argue here is purely self-supporting. In effect, you are arguing with yourself since - as I have no need to use PP - I don't care what you think of it. You, I suspect (please prove me wrong because it's depressing) would continue to elevate PPS above all other possibilites long after the rest of us had started using a better program. This thread is becoming dangerously trollish.

np

OOP is supposed to make things easier. In my opinion, it succeeds.

Faf - when I said 'business minds', it was immediately preceded by "I really don't see the point of Powerpoint to be honest - what with HTML being slightly more versatile, but there's no accounting for...". I was therefore making them an exception from my philosophy. If you're going to paraphrase people, do it so nobody will notice. You don't 'program' in JavaScript as it's a client-side script, but your idea about using MAX would work well if you used PYTHON. However this definitely would take a lot of time and programming skills. If you were going to use MAX, you'd be best off combining it with Director 8.5 to get the most bang for your buck, imho. If there's one thing this thread shows it's how important resources, time and available platforms are. Not to mention the preferences and past experiences of the author, and a knowledge of what's available. Macromedia AuthorWare, for instance, can do things that I guarantee will never appear in any future version of PP. As someone who uses a disparate set of graphical and web tools on a daily basis, I have to know what does what and which does it best. IMHO PowerPoint is a low-end tool for people who don't know what they're doing, which really has been the crux of my argument all along. If you remember I started off this argument by saying that "I can't see the point..." which probably is due to the fact that I don't need to. But fair play to the adventurous PP users - if they want to make pretty slideshows with Times New Roman headings who am I to judge? (Oddly enough I think that's the market niche it's actually aimed at.)

Greg, what's the question? Seems to me like you need to figure that out before you can start working on an answer mate. (Hi dudels )

\o/ Take that, Bill!

But none of these things describe me, the person I have been talking about for this whole thread. One thing I really hate on forums above all else (yes, even more than trolls) is being interpreted to fit some argument I'm not even taking part in. If I were making a presentation, I would use the tools and skills I have at my disposal. The presentation would be more engaging than anything you could possibly do with PPS, more versatile, platform independent, not rely on plugins, cheaper, quicker to complete, and not rely on proprietary code or functions. Plus it would arrive on a funky business card ROM.

Unless you didn't exactly pay for it, in which case don't.

'Yes'? Of course you would have to use JavaScript if you wanted 'fancy' transitions, such as page fadeIn/fadeOut, or literal sliding pages, but that's off-the-shelf code. If you wanted a timed sequence of pages you could simply use the META refresh tag. You do know PPS is basically a prepackaged form of HTML, just like RTF, XDOC and all of the rest of M$'s so called 'file formats', right?

What century are you living in? Ever hear of JavaScript? IE only displays PPS internally if you are using XP or Win2K SP3. I'm not. You'd have to be a retard to install SP3 for Win2K (which is what I use). Hence me asking about possible IE plugins. Faf - I am now seriously worried about you. PowerPoint easier than HTML? Powerpoint cool? Are you ok?

In another couple of hundred years I doubt (a) that we'd have any resources left to colonise the moon and Mars, and (b) that they'd provide enough space and resources.

Ha ha, Schroedinger's Posting Effect in full force

I don't think you read what I was asking. But still, I did not know that.

Stop making my brain hurt, pls. Ta.

And the answer is... Yes you can

Is there a MicroSoft or 3rd party plugin that lets you view PPS presentations without having to have PowerPoint installed, or is it an all or nothing program? I have some PPSs to view and can't be arsed going through that dumb Office 2000 premium set-up crap. (I really don't see the point of Powerpoint to be honest - what with HTML being slightly more versatile, but there's no accounting for business minds is there?)