Some of the stuff I have been doing with the print code in dia is to get
nice multi page printing working correctly. Dia 0.81 stores page setup
information with the file which is the first step. The next thing is to
show where the actual page breaks are in the diagram display. This way,
objects can be placed so they print nicely on multiple pages. This may
help you. If dia is enough for your presentation work, then that is
great. However, there are also a number of presentation app projects.
One other project that may be of interest to you some time in the future
is Achtung, which aims at producing a presentation program like power
point. I don't think it is in a usable state at the moment though. It is
in the GNOME CVS tree at the moment. With bonobo support, it would
be possible to use both dia and achtung together. Another project I have
heard about is magicpoint, but I have not tried it.
James.
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On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dia is great. It is the first vector oriented drawing tool that I have ever
> liked. As well as its intended diagram generation it could be used to
> prepare presentations, in much the same way as PowerPoint. To do this,
> I think only a few changes are needed; I have no idea if they are practical
> or not.
>
> 1) Multiple page documents; perhaps just a wrapper that surrounds file names
> with individual dia XML files, or maybe you would be better off with new tags
> to wrap pages.
>
> 2) Most of the effects I ever use are already supported; about the only
> thing I can think of is some kind of gradient fill object. This would do most of
> the common things like background colour washes.
>
> 3) If you have some sort of multipage document, then minor printing revisions
> (Print Current Page etc.) would be needed.
>
> 4) More ambitious, a thumbnail view / navigator.
>
> 5) Slide-show mode.
>
> Just my 2c worth.
>
> Julian Satchell
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
