10/30/2023 0 Comments Libreoffice slides![]() ![]() ![]() Inkscape is a really great free vector graphics editing tool which can do many more useful things than I have room to list here. Pdf2svg is especially powerful because it converts fonts in the original PDF to vectors, so your SVG will have no font dependencies (which LibreOffice might otherwise have a chance at screwing up). Once you have the program downloaded and installed, the syntax is simply, pdf2svg input.pdf output.svg If you want to show a figure which you have only in PDF format, pdf2svg does a great job converting to SVG. So stick with all SVG figures in your slides. Fortunately though, SVG support seems to be excellent. Technically, LibreOffice supports inserting PDF figures, but in my experience support is shoddy. Most science presentations will include lots of plots, and to look nice on any screen resolution, you’ll want these to be vector graphics like PDF or SVG rather than raster images like PNG or JPG. This post is not meant to be an exhaustive list, just a collection of some not-so-obvious tricks which might help convince you that LibreOffice can really be a powerful alternative to other paid and free presentation software, including PowerPoint, KeyNote, and Beamer. Ok, done? Great! Now here are some tips on making that into a modern, professional, and clean set of slides using only free tools.Īs a preview, here’s the software discussed in this post: How to Make a Kickass Scientific Presentation with LibreOffice and Other Free Tools įirst of all, you’ll need to develop an interesting scientific research program, come up with some novel results, then organize them into a coherent set of ideas to present. ![]()
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