On 22:43:32 Mar 18, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > I find that the speed, or lack thereof, which which xpdf renders > each new page (or progessive-overlay-on-the-same-page) varies from > "too fast for any perceptable delay" to "a couple of seconds" and > sometimes even to "10 secondes". It seems to depend entirely on how > big/complex the graphics are that I include -- if a page has only > text and/or latex math, it renders "instantly". But if there are > big/complex graphics, then it can be slower. (The "10 seconds" is > only for some really nasty graphics files.) >
I have observed something around 3 to 4 seconds. It is not exactly "painful" but distracting. All my slides have pictures or source code, so xpdf is mostly unacceptable. It is very fast when you don't view fullscreen , so the issue is in scaling. In fact I would also venture to say that color pictures give a lot of fun and life to your boring technical talks be it math or software or hardware or even if you are making a sales/marketing pitch. I always look for powerful imagery from flickr.com. -Girish -- "unix soi qui mal y pense" UNIX to him who evil thinks +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GnuPG key : 0xC7BBF207 | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net | | Fingerprint: 2AFF C264 20CE C80C DDFF CC15 AD3E F190 C7BB F207 | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
