On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
> >You can use my hackish Pod::HtmlPsPdf, which tries hard to help generate
> >slides. The only caveat it has now, is that the html2ps tool that it uses
> >generates not 100% complete PS, so when I run ps2pdf everything is cool,
> >but acroread has no option to rotate slides by 90% , so I have to use
> >ghostview instead during my classes.
>
> Well, the thing is that a real slide format like PPT is a bit more
> professional looking than PS/PDF as a format for slides. I'm not saying
> your slides aren't professional looking, but PS/PDF generated slides seem a
> bit plain.
It doesn't look professional at all, so what? Aren't we talking about
creating a set of tutorials for mongers and user groups? What's important
is the information, not how fancy the background picture is.
> I don't think people care about the look of the slides at the conferences
> you speak at because they tend to be Open Source conferences, but if I took
> the same sort of slides to like SoftwareDevelopment2001 or some place a bit
> more commercial oriented, I think the attendees would feel the slides are a
> bit odd.
See above, there aren't intended for fancy demostrations.
> Anyway, I agree with POD or an intermediate format for just about
> everything else. If there was a way to auto generate true PPT slides, then
> I would be more of a proponent of POD as a format for the slides
> themselves. But even then, vector art is useful for diagrams, so I don't
> know how it would work to figure out how to get those into html2ps.
Easy, just include an image tag (<IMG ...>) and the diagrams are in. We
write our book in pod, and it works like magic. Of course you cannot
expect the animations...
you may want to check out: PPresenter from CPAN (works with Tk if I
remember correctly)
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