On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Michael Jakl <jakl.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:20, Robert Burrell Donkin > <robertburrelldon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Ian Holsman <li...@holsman.net> wrote: >>> Personally I think you should focus on the message of the presentation, not >>> the format, and try to make it available to as many people as possible. >>> Sadly this means PPT or PDF nowadays.
i've committed a PDF version of the talk into subversion i think the best approach would be for any talks under development to use a diffable format (of some kind) but keep binary versions checked in. >> in the end, binary formats are bad for collaboration since they can't >> be diff'd. PDF is a fine final format but i'd need to get annotations >> working using a FOSS editor. (if anyone clueful would like to jump in, >> that'd be great) > > What about latex-beamer[1]? It's plaintext and can be transformed into > PDF, Postscript or any other format latex supports. Though, latex > itself is also a large software package to add as a dependency. > > For graphs I like to use Graphviz[2] which is also plain text with > various output formats. thanks everyone for the useful suggestions i've just committed a XSL-FO for S5 (which can be used with Apache Fop to convert S5 to PDF). if anyone want to use S5 then that'll be fine. - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: labs-unsubscr...@labs.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: labs-h...@labs.apache.org
