EPS figures in OpenOffice Impress presentations look horrible

[Paul Smith]

On 2/5/07, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:
> > EPS figures in OpenOffice Impress presentations look horrible. Has
> > somebody here found a workaround?
>
> 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/).

Thanks, Marc. I have just installed the PDF Converter printer with the
'spadmin' program, but I cannot see the PDF Converter printer from
inside OOo. Any ideas?

Paul