Thanks again. Here are some of my thoughts on presentations using SVG and why current programs don't meet my needs (if one does, I would be very glad to learn about it):
By a presentation, I mostly mean a powerpoint presentation! We have had two types of presentation programs on linux: a) TeX based (magicpoint, prosper, etc.) which look really pretty except that drawing figures is hard and animations seem almost impossible. b) Powerpoint-like (kpresenter, etc.) where text and figures can be drawn using an integrated UI -- but frankly, they are far from looking pretty since the rendering sucks.
With SVG and renderers like inkscape and cairo, we have the possibility of constructing a powerpoint-like presenter with a very professional and pretty feel. Given that SVG has support for animation, it would be a natural format to store a presentation (instead of yet another new format!)
For drawing within an animation, one would not have to use all of inkscape's features, I think. Typically, figures within an animation are simple -- however, one could use inkscape to generate a powerful and useful library of useful images.
Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome! Ashwin
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:01:28 +1100, Peter Moulder <Peter.Moulder@...38...> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:40:11PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Have you tried out inkview for running the presentations?
Just to clarify for Ashwin: inkview doesn't render animation either. inkview simply allows paging through a number of SVG images, and has a full-screen mode (F11). man inkview.
MagicPoint (mgp) has an interesting feature of allowing embedding arbitrary X processes in the presentation. Depending on what sort of animation you're interested in, you may find this useful. (This feature is of course a security concern when viewing random .mgp files from strangers, so it may be disabled in your default install.)
(I believe it uses Gtk Socket/Plug for this, if anyone's interested in adding such a feature to some other software.)
pjrm.