60 lines of Perl code, but I don't have the text portion, so it is now the time for you to modify it:

use Tk;
use Tk::JPEG;
use File::Glob ':glob';

my $automode = 0;

my @jpgs = bsd_glob("9???.jpg");
my $index = -1;

my $mw = MainWindow->new(title => "JPEG");
$mw->geometry("800x800"); 
my $f = $mw->Frame()->pack(-fill => "both");
$f->Button(-text => "Load", -command => \&load)->pack(-side => "left",
+ -fill => "both");
my $pattern = $f->Entry(-width => 10, -text => '*')->pack(-side => "le
+ft", -fill => "both");
my $step;
$f->Button(-text => "<<", -command => sub {prev_image($step->get())})-
+>pack(-side => "left", -fill => "both");
$f->Button(-text => "<", -command => sub {prev_image(0)})->pack(-side 
+=> "left", -fill => "both");
$step = $f->Entry(-width => 3, -text => 10)->pack(-side => "left", -fi
+ll => "both");
$f->Button(-text => ">", -command => sub {next_image(0)})->pack(-side 
+=> "left", -fill => "both");
$f->Button(-text => ">>", -command => sub {next_image($step->get())})-
+>pack(-side => "left", -fill => "both");
$f->Checkbutton(-text => "Auto Mode", -onvalue => 1, -offvalue => 0, -
+variable => \$automode, -command => sub {if ($automode) {print $autom
+ode; next_image()}})->pack(-side => "left", -fill => "both");
$f->Label(-text => "Delay")->pack(-side => "left", -fill => "both");
my $delay = $f->Entry(-width => 4, -text => 1000)->pack(-side => "left
+", -fill => "both");
$f->Label(-text => "milli-second(s)")->pack(-side => "left", -fill => 
+"both");
my $image = $mw->Photo();
next_image(0);
my $button = $mw->Label(-image => $image)->pack(-side => "top", -fill 
+=> "both");

MainLoop;

sub load {
    @jpgs = bsd_glob($pattern->get());
    $index = -1;
    next_image(0);
}

sub next_image {
    $index += shift;
    $index = $#jpgs if ($index > $#jpgs);
    while ((($index + 1)<= $#jpgs) && !eval {$image->read($jpgs[++ $in
+dex], -shrink); 1}) {
    }
    if ($automode) {
        $mw->after($delay->get(), \&next_image) if (($index + 1) <= $#
+jpgs);
    }
    $mw->configure(-title => $jpgs[$index]);
    $std = undef;
}

sub prev_image {
    $index -= shift;
    $index = 0 if ($index < 0);
    $automode = 0;
    while ((($index - 1) >= 0) && !eval {$image->read($jpgs[-- $index]
+, -shrink); 1}) {
    }
    if ($index >= 0) {
        $mw->configure(-title => $jpgs[$index]);
        $std = undef;
    } 
}
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To make HTML slide presentations quickly and easily, I use Spork. As described in the documentation, you write the slides in wiki-style markup language, then use the spork command to generate the HTML slides.

To give a concrete example, here is the source code for the slides of a talk on Perl Best Practices I gave to Sydney.pm last week.

I need to build some sort of slideshow (preferably a PowerPoint presentation) which on each slide a picture (resizzed and all) and a little text (one line max).

Uhm... so, why is it you want to use Perl for this?

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

well I had to do a same sort of thing a year ago in powerpoint by hand (there are about 150 pictures which need to be put into this) and it took me a lot of work. I was hoping I could somehow automate this with perl (as it will come back every few months from now on)

Try http://irfanview.com/ to batch-convert all of your pictures. It's free and works fine. I've no idea of how to automatically add all those shrinked pictures to your slides, but I wouldn't try to do it in perl. Alternatively I would try it in perl but without using Powerpoint. Maybe http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ is a tool you would like to use for this kind of task, or the perl-based SPIP http://duehl.de/christian/perl/spip.html but it seems that there exists only a german documentation for it until now.