On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Aside from being in Ruby and not in Perl, the S9 stuff I posted on PLUG could probably work for this. With S9 you would not need to know Ruby unless it didn't do everything you want. Here's a few links http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/tutorial.html http://groups.google.com/group/webslideshow/web/projects http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2008/05/our-take-on-pre.html http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/ http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy If I were doing it for myself, I'd go with the Ruby (S9) one. I may do my next slide show in S9 rather than "beamer" because I'm extremely frustrated with the "beamer" work flow. But in defense of "beamer", if you've got a huge presentation and need the ability to skip around, there are lots of ways to put indexing, table of contents, outlines, etc. into a presentation and jump around, although you need a full-screen mouse, not just forward and backward buttons. I joined the Google group. If you want me to take a preliminary shot at converting your existing slides to S9, I'll have some free time tomorrow. > > -- > 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 > -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
