Re: About Acrobat Reader
Patrik Carlsson writes: I thought dissolving was irritating on the web even when it worked. Is that to mean that dissolving is something to avoid in a presentation? If yes, I would not object to this statement. But that is not special to P^4. It is introduced by hyperref. And if it has problems with plug-ins, that should discussed with the hyperref implementors, if they can do something about it. Or are there any reasons not to use the Acrobat Reader for the presentation, which I do not see now? Simplicity and portability makes it worth it, and there are a pair of features possible to implement. * "click to get to next page" even in plug-in mode like in the context grondweet example. http://www.ntg.nl/context/itdemos/internal/gw/gw-s.pdf Sorry, I don't get the point. Maybe, because I don't use plug-ins. I only noticed that the mouse cursor is always the pointing hand in the quoted example and I did not like that, because I cannot identify "real" hot spots any more. * Some examples on including movie files (or sound) for use with plugins. Would that need post processing of the pdf file? * Maybe a way to make images "hot" so a click will zoom in on them. Or that? I don't know. But I do not expect that. That's obviously possible features that aren't yet done, most could possibly be done by other means than P^4 or direct pdf hardcoding, but if anyone has information on these things I think they belong on this list. If it doesn't need special post processing and can be done with hyperref or another package, I would think you would reach a wider audience and maybe volunteers on the pdftex list. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: pdf transitions between pages
Marc van Dongen writes:
: Hi, I've read the examples on the web page; what other transitions are
: possible ? I guess there is some documentation somewhere I haven't read yet.
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I've added code for some commands below.
Thank you for answering this and for the command list.
Are there any objections to publish that on the web page?
: Is it possible to do effects like dimming text when you advance past a pause
: on a list so that you highlight the current text ? (I've been looking at
: what's possible in the example on http://www.utopiatype.com/pdf.html)
That would be cool.
I see David Wilson from Utopia Type had to do something, after PPower4
came close ;-)
Because the actions behind the macros are hidden I cannot see, whether
one can do that only easily on his way going from TeX first to PostScript
and then to PDF. Scanning the pdf text for all color settings to dim a
section seems to be rather expensive, because the color is set often,
if I recall that correctly.
What I would like to see is something which specifies:
te order in which things are shown. Maybe something along the lines of
\pause{1}{This first} \pause{3}{This last} \pause{2}{This second}
And next you would like to hide again parts of your former display, right?
That's what my boss asked for. But he didn't get that up to now either ;-)
Thinking about it changing all colors would be easier than keeping
track of the positioning if the pdf file.
None of these features are currently in my schedule. Some of them
require some cooperation/changes of pdftex, to make them easier to
implement.
But that is another nice thing in free software: if you need a
feature, you can pick the place, where it is implemented most easily,
effectively and/or properly.
Klaus
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Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED]
FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt
Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
pdf transitions between pages
Hi, I've read the examples on the web page; what other transitions are possible ? I guess there is some documentation somewhere I haven't read yet. Is it possible to do effects like dimming text when you advance past a pause on a list so that you highlight the current text ? (I've been looking at what's possible in the example on http://www.utopiatype.com/pdf.html) Maybe you (Klaus) could do a Forthcoming Features list for the webpage ? Many thanks, Lyndon Hill
Thumbnails
Hello! Today I tried to create thumbnails for a presentation made with ppower4. For this I used the thumbpdf package. But if I do this naively all thumbnails except of the first one are assigned to the wrong page. This is surely due to the fact, that the ready presentation has more pages than the file created by pdflatex. If I try to work around this, I have to do a lot of work by hand. Now, is there any possibility to create thumbnails automatically for a ppower4 presentation (without using commercial programs)? Thanks in advance for any help. Friedemann -- ___ | | | | Friedemann Kemm |Pfaffenwaldring 21, 70550 Stuttgart | | Institut fuer Aerodynamik |phone: +49 711/685-3454 | | und Gasdynamik (IAG)|fax : +49 711/685-3438 | | Universitaet Stuttgart|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |url : www.iag.uni-stuttgart.de/ | | | people/friedemann.kemm | ___
