I've done the presentation for server sky a few times now; the next one will be at the Oregon L5 meeting on Saturday May 16. I will post details later.
In any case, OpenOffice.org is pretty slow and does not do animations well. I'm planning to port the presentation to html files, which will contain some javascript that reads the output of my "wireless presenter", or keyboard buttons or mouse, and selects the next slide. I plan to construct the package of html files with Perl scripts called by a makefile. Some of the files will contain swf Flash animations, which display pretty decently in firefox. There will be navigation pages that take me to blocks of slides. I also find the usual "click through all the slides" approach pretty stupid; with multiple navigation pages, I can drill down via section slides or other organizers to reach any slide quickly. Instead of thumbnails, I will simply use text names. By using a make file, I can construct multiple targeted slide sets from a directory of slide images. I can also regenerate all the sets after I change one of the synthesis programs. Some of the slides will be png's emitted by openoffice; that is still a useful design tool for static slides. The resulting presentations should display nicely on any browser with java and flash. If anybody wants to help build this, it might make a popular general purpose tool that will earn fame and fortune. However, it seems like such an obvious way to do things (especially the make file technique) that I suspect someone has already done it. Pointers, please! BTW, some of this is inspired by some javascripting and slide synthesis that Eric Wilhelm did with the Perl module Text::Slidez . My needs are different, so I will be using some of his code as a starting point. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
