EPS figures in OpenOffice Impress presentations look horrible

[Marc Schwartz]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> EPS figures in OpenOffice Impress presentations look horrible. Has
> somebody here found a workaround?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul

What you will see in OO.org are the bitmapped image previews, not the 
high quality vector based PS images.

OO.org does not render PS. Neither does MS Office for that matter.

What you can do is to print the Impress presentation to a PS file (using 
a PS printer driver of course) and then use ps2pdf to convert the PS 
file to PDF.

Then use one of the PDF viewers to display the PDF file in full screen mode.

Note that using the regular OO.org PDF Export function from the icon or 
menu will also just print the bitmapped preview image, not the PS image.

You can also run the 'spadmin' program for OO.org and install the PDF 
Converter printer, which will then enable you to do the above two step 
PS => PDF process in one step, since it uses Ghostscript directly.  The 
spadmin program is at /usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/program/spadmin.

Of course, you can do what I do, which is to use LaTeX.  In the case of 
presentations, the Beamer package works quite well 
(http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/).

HTH,

Marc Schwartz