It’s not exactly a
secret
that OpenOffice.org and I have a love-hate
relationship (nor that it frequently tilts towards the hate side of
things). But I’ve yet to find a better free software package for
presentations, so like a couple with a mountain of shared assets in a
no-fault divorce state, we’re stuck together.
Alex (CC’s
crack-graphic-designer) put together a color
palette for use when
producing CC publications, and Jon
Phillips began using it
quite effectively (in my opinion) in his
presentations. I tried doing
something similar for my talk at
COMMUNIA last month using one
of Jon’s slide decks as a starting point, but OOo Impress kept eating my
master slides (and not showing me the actual colors used). So I jumped
over to Slidy. The results
were mixed: I was able to explicitly specify my color choices in CSS,
but when I went to present the fact I had designed the talk on my Eee
PC at a wonky resolution
(WVGA) caused lots of font weirdness.
So as I prepare for SCALE 6X
I’m back with OpenOffice.org, still wanting to use the CC and Tango
color palettes. So I dug in and created a couple of palette files; you
can find them on the CC
Colors page. Note that I’m
still not sure how to make OOo just “find” them and add them to the full
palette, but they are usable and hopefully they’ll ease some of the pain.
date: | 2008-02-09 09:11:16 |
wordpress_id: | 538 |
layout: | post |
slug: | color-me-open |
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category: | Software |
tags: | creative commons, openoffice.org, palette, presentation |