Dear all:
I have used Inkscape for a while now, and the more I use it, the more I like it. Congratulations to the whole community and thanks a lot for your work! Among other things, I use Inkscape to edit illustrations for my presentations. One thing that I don't like about the process, is that I create the images, then export them to PDF and afterwards import them into Keynote. It's not very convenient and that got me thinking about a way to improve the process.
After looking at different approaches for web slide shows (based on HTML, CSS, SVG and JavaScript in various combinations), I plugged together a small JavaScript programme that turns an Inkscape image into a slide show. Every layer of the image becomes one slide. The beauty of the approach is that the set-up and the definition of the transitions can be done from within Inkscape and everything is contained in the SVG image file. To view the presentation the SVG image can be loaded into any browser with JavaScript and SVG support. So far, I tested it successfully in Firefox and Safari on OSX and in Firefox on WindowsXP.
There is lots more that could still be done to improve the code and to integrate it better with Inkscape, but I wanted to see what people think about it before I continue to work on improvements. You can download the image (presentation) from the link below. I hope you'll have fun playing around with it. Feedback and pointers to other approaches for solving the same problem are always appreciated.
http://hochreiner.net/projects/jessy/jessy.svg
The image above uses the DejaVu fonts. If you don't have them on your system, other fonts will be used and the results will look slightly different.
Cheers, Hannes