Talk:Presentation program

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I realize that this is only the stub, but perhaps the "Some companies have been declared PowerPoint-Free Zones in an attempt to resist the flow of propaganda produced with this tool" bit should be deleted (specifically the "resist the flow of propaganda"). I dislike MS and powerpoint just as much as the next guy, but this strikes me as a bit far. -mikeytwice

Is there an elegant way to program the "dissolve" transition between slides. I need the code to get drift out of a measurement, not for a presentation. So high quality is apreciated (not the openoffice way). Why is there no subsection about fade effects in this article? Arnero 20:13, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plugins may be irrelevant to this page

I consider the paragraph quoted below to be irrelevant to the article, which is about a general class of software. This paragraph talks about a specific feature which may or may not exist in any particular instance of this software.

Similar to programming extensions for an operating system or web browser, "add ons" or plugins for presentation programs can be used to enhance their capabilities. For example, it would be useful to export a PowerPoint presentation as a Flash animation or PDF document. This would make delivery through removable media or sharing over the Internet easier. Since PDF files are designed to be shared regardless of platform and most web browsers already have the plugin to view Flash files, these formats would allow presentations to be more widely accessible.

Surely it would be more appropriate to talk about Powerpoint plugins in the Powerpoint page, Keynote plugins in the Keynote page, Impress plugins in the Impress page, etc.

Nosedog 03:22, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

That discussion doesn't mention any specific plugin. I think it is a somewhat weak paragraph, but plugins are fairly common, as is export to SWF of PDF. I see no reason to just discard this information. --Karnesky 04:50, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Don't throw out the baby with the bath water...the example was not intended as "thinly-veiled open formats propaganda", but simply a practical explanation of how presentation programs can be enhanced/extended beyond their initial capabilities. Removing all information about plugins would see to me to weaken the overall article. If you would like to provide a more NPOV example to strengthen the paragraph, please do so...but simply removing the entire paragraph seems extreme. Alancookie 16:24, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
You're quite right, and I apologise for the rash deletion. I at first tried editing it but ended up thinking the article was no worse off without it, as per my comment above. Also, my comment on "thinly-veiled open formats propaganda" was cheeky and inappropriate; put it down to inexperience. I'll make another attempt at improvement with this discussion in mind. (But in this case I think a sentence is probably more appropriate for the article than a paragraph.) Nosedog 07:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:34, 2 January 2008 (UTC)