Code samples in OOo Presenter
| From: | Larry Garfield | Date: | Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:25:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Code samples in OOo Presenter | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hi all.
I have a busy conference season coming up, and will be giving a number of
presentations that involve code, specifically PHP. I am going to want to put
code onto slides in OpenOffice (3.1 specifically, using Kubuntu 9.10), but to
date I've never figured out a good way to do that. Anyone know of a good way
to do syntax-highlighted code in OOo?
Things I've tried in the past:
1) Just throw code onto the slide, no highlighting. This works, but is ugly
and harder to read or demonstrate what I am doing. It's my usual fallback.
2) Screen-shot from a web page that uses syntax highlighting, such as PHP's
built-in highlighting. Very difficult to prepare since the sizing is usually
all off. Ugly. Very difficult to edit and change because the screen caps have
to be regenerated. And PHP's default coloring for highlighting frequently
clashes with the slides and looks godawful on a projector. (I once ended up
with blue text on a black slide. That was a major fail.)
3) Jump out of the slides into an IDE. Works, but totally breaks the flow of
the presentation. The IDE usually also has text that's way too small, and I
have to reconfigure it into a "presentation mode", often on the fly. It also
makes discrete snippets harder to show, since there's still the entire rest of
the IDE there.
I don't like any of these options. :-) I don't know what the alternative is,
though. Ideally I'd love to have a custom text region or format or something
that is "take this and highlight it properly", but I don't know if such a
plugin exists.
I could be talked into using KPresenter / KOffice instead if that would be
easier, but as I am on Linux I have no access to KeyNote or PowerPoint.
Any suggestions?
--Larry Garfield