[vox] Survey: What do YOU use Linux for?

Micah J. Cowan micah at cowan.name
Wed Jul 6 18:48:45 PDT 2005


On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:31:00PM -0700, Norm Matloff wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:27:48PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> 
> > Which is, in fact, what I did. No transitions.
> 
> > I inspected the PDF document, and in fact the only transitions specified
> > anywhere (that I can find) are "Replace" ones.
> 
> Sorry, I now realize that the problem was on my end.  I was not using
> the term "transitions" properly, and had confused them with overlays.

No matter: The tour had a transition or two, and I got to see 'em on
Acrobat Reader (xpdf doesn't do 'em).

> > > The tour shows some tricks that the tour claims are easier in Prosper
> > > than in Powerpoint.
>  
> > Heh. Cool. :-)
> 
> Are the tour's claims correct?

No clue: never actually /used/ Powerpoint... I prefer PDF documents for
my own use, as well ;-)

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Micah J. Cowan
micah at cowan.name


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