On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Arnout Standaert <arnout.standaert@...155...> wrote:
Probably some of you have already seen Prezi, an web application for "non-linear" presentations. That doesn't sound too clear, but see http://www.prezi.com for an example, or http://www.aether.hu/prezi for an introduction. It basically breaks the traditional slide-show format of presentations and turns it into a fancy dynamic flight-simulator-like concept. Very refreshing and ubercool after years of Powerpoint slides :-)
Interestingly, when I need to show something to someone, I use this method directly in Inkscape. Just draw my stuff there and present it by zooming and panning. Never could stand Powerpoint and its kin.
As far as I know, there is currently no other software doing something like this. But IMHO, Inkscape would be very much suited for this. Currently, it has the ideal editing tools to compose the presentation material itself, but it lacks the animation interface to provide the navigation and zooming aspect in the presentation itself. With all the SVG animation plans, Prezi-like presentations would seem to be within reach.
We do not support SVG animation yet, unfortunately. Only static SVG. But if there is a viewer capable of playing SVG animation, it would be an interesting project, and not too difficult, to add a tool to Inkscape for writing such zoom/pan scripts.