On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 12:32:44PM -0400, Richard Kowalczyk wrote:
I have been thinking about using Inkscape and Inkview as a replacement for powerpoint (one of the few reasons to reboot to Windows).
My questions:
(a) Is there a better way to do this? I could do everything in LaTex, but I then I lose the ability to tweak the result, such as moving pictures around, or changing font sizes, etc., like I have in powerpoint, or Inkscape.
Sounds like you've got a good setup. I've not heard of a better way, although Ted's presentation stuff may be worth looking at. Ted, maybe you can throw in some comments?
The Xorg/Cairo folks do SVG presentations, although they use a different tool for it (I asked keithp about this last year, but the tool wasn't as polished as inkview at the time). Their interesting approach was to write the presentation in an XML format and use XSLT to transform it into SVG.
(b) Is anyone else using Inkscape for presentations? Interested in using it?
Yes, several of us have used inkview for presentations, although it sounds like you've gone a step or two beyond us. :-)
(c) Step 3b is pretty poor right now - I am still working on it, but the conversion process basically creates a seperate text element for every letter. I can do some processing to improve on this, but it is very inelegant. Anyone have a better idea?
(d) Also in step 3b, I am losing some greek letters (but not all) in the conversion from LaTex to svg. I have not tracked the cause of this down yet.
I assume you're going LaTeX->PS->SVG? Try viewing the Postscript file and see if the text is presented there correctly. If so, then that suggests a PS->SVG transformation issue. Also, by 'losing' do you mean the text is gone completely or it just doesn't display (look in the SVG file in a text editor). If the text is there but just not getting displayed, it could be a font problem.
Bryce