On Apr 8, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Rick wrote:

This is a probe to see if there is any thought being given towards automation of presentation (a la powerpoint) functionality in InkScape.

Yup.

Inkview is something that does the basics of it.

A a whole lot can be done now for static presentations. But some simple scripting features would be really useful.

For instance: I like to add popup text boxes which can be handled by adding simple mouseover/mouseout calls to toggle visibility on a caption. This works in FireFox, (although it would be 'really' nice if SVG fonts worked too)

I imagine that this would be ways down the road, and probably fairly complicated to integrate, but is there a plan for this type of functionality?

Though it is down the road a bit (mainly due to developers doing other stuff first), it's actually not *that* complicated to integrate.

A lot of the effects (e.g. toggling visibility), are things that need to be done for base animation support. And by the time we get done reworking the extensions/scripting mechanism, we'll DOM events in there. In and of itself, the latter is not that difficult, but once it's set, you'll have the majority of what you want.