Hi all,
this is a very far shot, but just maybe... I have been looking at prezi
(http://prezi.com/). There's lots of aspects there that don't appeal to
me, but I find the general idea very nice: a presentation is sort of a
big poster, with some background graphics. You define areas on this
poster into which your content goes (so these would be the "slides" in a
conventional presentation). When you show your presentation, your viewer
will zoom in on these areas and present them full screen, and it will
move along a predefined path, thus showing the areas (slides) in a
certain order. The nice thing is that you can, at any moment, zoom out
and show the entire poster, thus giving an overview of your presentation
in which only the bigger elements (headlines etc.) will be readable. Now
I was wondering if the same couldn't be done with ConTeXt, pdf and
javascript: producing a big pdf with a background image would be fairly
easy (metapost's vector graphics would look good at any zoom level).
Placing slides with content there could be done via layers. Zooming in
and showing certain areas is doable (but obviously would depend on the
pdf viewer, especially for the full screen mode). I have no idea if we
have support for rotating areas in a pdf viewer. Would javascript be
capable of automating this, i.e. defining areas in a pdf, displaying
them at a certain zoom level, and move from one area to the next? I
think this would be a nice alternative to traditional slide shows.
Thomas
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