Re: [orca-list] Powerpoint presentations

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

Yes indeed, I had same experience.
But there are people as rightly pointed out, who have not realised the 
digital freedom.  So they use proprietary software.
In that case as Alex said correctly. one is forced to use a certain one 
brand and not have freedom, because the creator of that presentation 
might have used pp it is forced on the user of that presentation too.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.


On 03/16/2013 12:22 AM, Albert Sten-Clanton wrote:
> I've done well lately using pdftotext.  As far as I know, it is free
> software.  Sometimes the documents I convert with pdftotext read better than
> the ones we create using Adobe on this Windows box.
>
> If your comment is aimed more narrowly, at life in GUI land, then I'm not
> qualified to assess it.  Or, let me know if I've misunderstood your meaning.
>
> Al
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Alex
> Midence
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 2:02 PM
> To: 'Krishnakant Mane'; 'Daniel Dalton'
> Cc: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Powerpoint presentations
>
> Powerpoint is not pointless.  If you are the one creating the presentation,
> yes, you can use alternatives.  If, on the other hand, you have to access
> one created by someone else and that person chose powerpoint, you can't fall
> back on Beamer.  He doesn't want to create powerpoints, he wants to read
> them.  Beamer is useless to him for this.
>
> Also, PDF's are quite accessible---With proprietary tools.  Free software
> solutions have yet to make them accessible to us in Linux.  I understand ...
> it's being looked into and, eventually, in the fullness of time, someone may
> get it right.  Possibly.  Maybe.  I think.
>
> But, if he uses his Windows VM with Jaws, he can  access both the powerpoint
> and the pdf quite nicely and right now.
>
> Thanks.
> Alex M
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of
> Krishnakant Mane
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 11:41 AM
> To: Daniel Dalton
> Cc: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Powerpoint presentations
>
> One more problem is the pdf accessibility.
> Else, LaTeX beamer is the best presentation tool I have ever seen.
> It really makes a certain proprietary tool "powerless and pointless ".
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
> On 03/15/2013 06:53 PM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to be able to read powerpoint presentations.
> >
> > Usually, I just convert to html with unoconv and it works pretty well.
> > However, I've noticed this doesn't work for tables or text boxes.
> >
> > Libreoffice impress doesn't seem to work overly well with orca (or am
> > I missing something)?
> > The only methods I have currently are to export the presentation to
> > pdf and then convert the pdf back to text (kind of messy). Or just
> > read the powerpoint inside my windows vm with jaws (again not good).
> >
> > Does anyone have any better ideas how to access these presentations -
> > heavy on tables and text boxes.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Daniel
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