Re: SVG-based presentation program?
Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> writes:
>>>>>> "Jens" == Jens Grivolla <j-news2002-11@grivolla.de> writes:
> Jens> Hi, I am looking for a good presentation program (something like
> Jens> PowerPoint) for Linux.
>
> There are several packages for making nice slides with LaTeX. The best
> one I've seen so far is prosper (available as a Debian package). If you
> use Acrobat Reader as your viewer, you get a few nice transitions too
> (although I personally find transitions a waste of time).
Very nice. I might seriously reconsider using LaTeX, especially
because formulas are really a pita when using anything else. So far I
had only been using the "dull kind" of LaTeX slides, having nice
templates makes all the difference for me.
I will have to look at the possibilities of the Acrobat Reader, too,
unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a dual screen mode as I
recently saw with somebody's PowerPoint presentation.
> Jens> Do you think that using SVG is a good idea? If so, what good
> Jens> (easy to use) authoring tools are there?
>
> sodipodi (available as a Debian package) is the only Linux-based editor
> I know of.
It looks pretty nice (according to the web page), but isn't of course
optimized for slide presentations. I will keep it in mind though as a
vector graphics program.
> The situation looks even worse for viewers, though. Mozilla's SVG
> support is not very good, and you would probably need to build it
> yourself, since the Debian packages (and the mozilla.org binaries) don't
> include it. There is a beta version of Adobe's plugin, though, that you
> may be able to make work.
The Adobe plugin is working here with Mozilla/Galeon. But of course
this is far from being a good presentation program.
Ciao,
Jens
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