i was having great trouble opening and viewing ppt files in ooimpress (openoffice.org impress).
first, the file took long time to open, bad but still manageable.
second, slide changing was terribly slow (3-5 seconds lag on my p4 machine) in ooimpress.
so i got fed up and start searching for a smaller application that just views ppt quickly in fullscreen mode.
it was then i came across this package in ubuntu repos, pptview, which is esssentially pptview.exe (windows binary to view ppt), configured to open with wine. this application looked crappy, but it was extremely responsive on my slow pc.
i have seen this many times that viewers perform faster that editors, so there should be seperate viewing binaries to open files like word, spreadsheet, presentations etc. it makes sense as i open such office files mostly for viewing purpose, unless and until i am creating a fresh document.
this link also provides a deb package of pptview, if you do not wish to go to repository.
http://linuxappfinder.com/package/pptview
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