I’ve got to do a presentation for a class tomorrow. I’m busting out a few slides using Open Office Impress, which is working ok. It can save as PPT so hopefully nobody on the other slide of the presentation will know it was made with that icky open source stuff.
I want it to look good. So I found a good template.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to edit the “Your Name” and “Your Title” fields of this template using Open Office. If you know how, please tell me.
But! otp is an open format! It’s just some zipped up xml. So:
wget http://technology.chtsai.org/impress/xuhai.otp unzip -d tmp xuhai.otp cd tmp grep -rl 'Your Name' ./* vi styles.xml ..... do some editing here .... zip -rm xuhai_more_better.otp ./* mv ./xuhai_more_better.otp ../ cd .. rmdir tmp gnome-open xuhai_more_better.otp
Bam. No heavy Open Office needed. Why doesn’t everybody do their power points in vi?