On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:04:44 +0200 "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> 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 Very fashionable, phluffy, breaks the ice at parties... I sat through a prezi presentation recently. The speaker took us on a long trip. It was "cool"! But in the end, there was not much to retain, and I thought: "where's the beef?". As to the constant zooming in and out, I kept wondering what the little specks represented (that I knew we would soon be visiting). Sort of like the old transparency technique of hiding parts with paper flaps. Lots of suspense! :) Remember, viewed from afar, all organisms look just like flies. For further discussion, I suggest: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
