Linux Voice Introduction
Linux Voice Introduction
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This month in Linux Voice.
Presentations are one of the items most affected by the spell of past Microsoft dominance. Lots of people in the business world don't even use the word "presentation" and refer to their slide deck as a "PowerPoint" – as if that were a real word in the language. The open source world can rival Microsoft's clunky and exclusionary PowerPoint with Impress, a versatile tool that is part of both the OpenOffice and LibreOffice suites. But if you're looking for something beyond the usual lines, text boxes, and clip art, you might want to plan your presentation around a full-featured video editor like Kdenlive. This month we show you how! Also inside, we compare some leading file exchange tools and delve into Prettymaps, a Python package for drawing maps with OpenStreetMap data.
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