Re: [Inkscape-user] Using Inkscape to prepare presentations
That's amazing! Great work! Animation is on the list of Inkscape to-do's, and you seem to have already come up with the start of a solution! It's not full animation yet, but frame-by-frame transitions in anything other than a .gif (or flash format) is thoroughly missing, so this is very welcome.
Instead of navigating with the directional keys, is it possible to make the flipping through the frames by clicking? (though it wouldn't allow moving back). Clicking is more convenient when including the picture within a webpage though. With a "click to start", you not only have the means to a presentation slide, but the start of the means to basic animation.
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
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On 29 Feb 2008, at 23:39, Valerie wrote:
That's amazing! Great work! Animation is on the list of Inkscape to- do's, and you seem to have already come up with the start of a solution! It's not full animation yet, but frame-by-frame transitions in anything other than a .gif (or flash format) is thoroughly missing, so this is very welcome.
Thanks! If I am not mistaken, the approach I have taken (using JavaScript for animation) is somewhat different from what the Inkscape developers are trying to do. As I understand it, their goal is to implement the animation part of the SVG specification. That seems much harder to do, but I am excited to see the results.
Instead of navigating with the directional keys, is it possible to make the flipping through the frames by clicking? (though it wouldn't allow moving back). Clicking is more convenient when including the picture within a webpage though. With a "click to start", you not only have the means to a presentation slide, but the start of the means to basic animation.
I just uploaded a new version of the presentation. You should now be able to flip through the slides by clicking.
Cheers, Hannes
Great implementation, is the best solution for this kind of problem IMHO. It would be nice to create some space to continue development of this tool, what do you think? I can create a project at Google Code if you like and, maybe, learn some javascript and send some contributions.
Facundo
On 3/1/08, Hannes Hochreiner <hannes@...2460...> wrote:
On 29 Feb 2008, at 23:39, Valerie wrote:
That's amazing! Great work! Animation is on the list of Inkscape to- do's, and you seem to have already come up with the start of a solution! It's not full animation yet, but frame-by-frame transitions in anything other than a .gif (or flash format) is thoroughly missing, so this is very welcome.
Thanks! If I am not mistaken, the approach I have taken (using JavaScript for animation) is somewhat different from what the Inkscape developers are trying to do. As I understand it, their goal is to implement the animation part of the SVG specification. That seems much harder to do, but I am excited to see the results.
Instead of navigating with the directional keys, is it possible to make the flipping through the frames by clicking? (though it wouldn't allow moving back). Clicking is more convenient when including the picture within a webpage though. With a "click to start", you not only have the means to a presentation slide, but the start of the means to basic animation.
I just uploaded a new version of the presentation. You should now be able to flip through the slides by clicking.
Cheers,
Hannes
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I am glad you liked it! I liked your idea of creating a space where the development can continue and where people can contribute, so I created a project on Google Code as you suggested. Due to a name conflict with another project, I had to rename the project slightly. It is now called "JessyInk". The link to the Google Code page is:
http://code.google.com/p/jessyink/
You are very welcome to join and I am looking forward to receiving contributions and further feed-back! For discussions about details, which you may feel are outside the scope of this list, you are invited to contact me directly.
I hope, I'll get some time to outline my own ideas for the future of the project in the next few days. Currently, I am working on an Inkscape extension that inserts the JavaScript and allows for transitions to be defined.
Saludos, Hannes
On 13 Mar 2008, at 17:45, Facundo Casco wrote:
Great implementation, is the best solution for this kind of problem IMHO. It would be nice to create some space to continue development of this tool, what do you think? I can create a project at Google Code if you like and, maybe, learn some javascript and send some contributions.
Facundo
On 3/1/08, Hannes Hochreiner <hannes@...2460...> wrote:
On 29 Feb 2008, at 23:39, Valerie wrote:
That's amazing! Great work! Animation is on the list of Inkscape to- do's, and you seem to have already come up with the start of a solution! It's not full animation yet, but frame-by-frame transitions in anything other than a .gif (or flash format) is thoroughly missing, so this is very welcome.
Thanks! If I am not mistaken, the approach I have taken (using JavaScript for animation) is somewhat different from what the Inkscape developers are trying to do. As I understand it, their goal is to implement the animation part of the SVG specification. That seems much harder to do, but I am excited to see the results.
Instead of navigating with the directional keys, is it possible to make the flipping through the frames by clicking? (though it wouldn't allow moving back). Clicking is more convenient when including the picture within a webpage though. With a "click to start", you not only have the means to a presentation slide, but the start of the means to basic animation.
I just uploaded a new version of the presentation. You should now be able to flip through the slides by clicking.
Cheers,
Hannes
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