Hi list,
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 :-)
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.
My question: are there tools/applications available that provide the zooming/path-based animation functionality for Inkscape-produced SVG files? Or can this be done using Inkscape itself and scripting (Javascript?)? I suppose the latter would come down to hand-coding and building a lot from the ground up, or are there tools available that can help with that?
Opinions and suggestions appreciated, wwwald
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.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:06 PM, bulia byak wrote:
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 :-)
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.
Interesting but I don't think this requires SVG animation, merely viewport animation It is programatically possible (using javascript) to zoom and pan in svg, I would think that to set up something like this would just require recording a series of viewports and navigating between them. This, of course would not support rotation.
Flipping it around, alternatively, it is a matter of scaling, translating, and rotating the while SVG document with a fixed viewport...
-Rob A>
Please get me off this list, it doesn't seem to be for people who are using the OS I use.
You'll have to use the link below to cancel your subscription. I will say though that I use inkscape on windows and I find the letter helpful.
~Aaron
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Howard Goff <Howard@...2608...> wrote:
Please get me off this list, it doesn't seem to be for people who are using the OS I use.
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:06 PM, bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> wrote:
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.
What's the deal with Inkview? I honestly don't know anything about it, and can't find it in my Inkscape directory, apparently (Windows platform). It sounds very much like a viewer... is it scriptable?
Regards, wwwald
On Mar 11, 2009, at 5:21 AM, Arnout Standaert 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 :-)
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.
Just FYI, that seems just about what Øyvind Kolås (Pippin) used at the first LGM to present his work on the graphics engine that became GEGL.
Sliding, zooming, etc.
Hello,
I don't know whether this will be off-topic or not, but there is a Firefox extension called Grafox which allows pan and zoom of SVGs.
You'll find it here:
As stated at the bottom of the page, it's "unfinished" and "buggy", but I used it about 6 months ago, it was funny.
Probably not compatible with the current maxVersion of Firefox, which will refuse to install it. In that case you need to unpack the xpi (it's a zip) and change the maxVersion to ... 3.3, maybe, in install.rdf
Regards.
--- On Wed, 3/11/09, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...204...> wrote:
From: Jon A. Cruz <jon@...204...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Prezi-like functionality To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 1:18 PM On Mar 11, 2009, at 5:21 AM, Arnout Standaert 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 :-)
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.
Just FYI, that seems just about what Øyvind Kolås (Pippin) used at the first LGM to present his work on the graphics engine that became GEGL.
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I also think you can do something fairly similar with PowerPoint, animations, and links. Of course, posting interactive PowerPoint presentations on the web is a bit of a problem, and Prezi's tools seem easier to use. I've just started using OOo Impress. Since it's designed to compete against PowerPoint, I suppose one can do similar tricks. Impress also has native flash export, but it doesn't export animations (yet) so this aspect is not really an alternative.
Marsh
Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On Mar 11, 2009, at 5:21 AM, Arnout Standaert 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 :-)
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.
Just FYI, that seems just about what Øyvind Kolås (Pippin) used at the first LGM to present his work on the graphics engine that became GEGL.
Sliding, zooming, etc.
Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Arnout Standaert <arnout.standaert@...155...> wrote:
Hi list, (...)
My question: are there tools/applications available that provide the zooming/path-based animation functionality for Inkscape-produced SVG files? Or can this be done using Inkscape itself and scripting (Javascript?)? I suppose the latter would come down to hand-coding and building a lot from the ground up, or are there tools available that can help with that?
Opinions and suggestions appreciated, wwwald
Some time ago someone presented a svg file with javascript in it that lets you make slideshow presentations. All you have to do was to edit the file in Inkscape, the javascript was preserved and worked fine. I think it won't be too dificult to create something similar for this type of presentations. You could have a layer named "control" with transparent boxes (even paths if you want) with some indication of order in their id and the have some javascript that moves, rotate, zoom the document to make the boxes match the viewport. After that you could just edit the layer/s with the content and change/add/remove boxes on the control layer. It would be a nice project.
Hystrix wrote the following on 3/12/2009 2:47 PM:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Arnout Standaert <arnout.standaert@...155...> wrote:
Hi list, (...)
My question: are there tools/applications available that provide the zooming/path-based animation functionality for Inkscape-produced SVG files? Or can this be done using Inkscape itself and scripting (Javascript?)? I suppose the latter would come down to hand-coding and building a lot from the ground up, or are there tools available that can help with that?
Opinions and suggestions appreciated, wwwald
Some time ago someone presented a svg file with javascript in it that lets you make slideshow presentations. All you have to do was to edit the file in Inkscape, the javascript was preserved and worked fine. I think it won't be too dificult to create something similar for this type of presentations. You could have a layer named "control" with transparent boxes (even paths if you want) with some indication of order in their id and the have some javascript that moves, rotate, zoom the document to make the boxes match the viewport. After that you could just edit the layer/s with the content and change/add/remove boxes on the control layer. It would be a nice project.
Have you seen this?
http://code.google.com/p/jessyink/
heathenx
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:42 PM, heathenx <heathenx@...155...> wrote:
Have you seen this?
yeap, that's what I was talking about. Thanks for the link.
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