[Zim-wiki] Screencast about zim

[awehler]

Hi.
How do you explain zim other people?
I've found zim late in 2013. After a short test phase and personal approval my 
personal knowledge management has completely migrated to zim quickly and 
improved this topic from start a lot.Now zim is known to and applied by quite a 
few of my work mates. It has been recognized to be useful for a shared 
knowledge base in a team. Knowledge may be handled in a distributed version 
control system (e.g. git) the same way as the software itself. This way the 
originally two conflicting aspects of  1) a local Desktop Wiki and  2) 
distributed synchronizationare in complete harmony with each other.
Now, to repeatedly explain zim is time consuming. And, because I'm willing to 
create screencasts for customer support and training I decided to take zim for 
an exercise to create my very first video tutorial. The result is uploaded to 
YouTube and you may find it here:
About zim, a Desktop Wiki; Part 1/3: Highlights   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hj21z5SLzgw
About zim, a Desktop Wiki; Part 2/3: Basics   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L_vFqzoQYvI
About zim, a Desktop Wiki; Part 3/3: Advanced   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jFF4p8lQsfA
I hope you find it useful.
Best regards,
Andreas

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[Zim-wiki] Synchronize picture size with actual zoom factor (feature request)

[awehler]

Use case: Workshops.

Zim books now are appreciated to be very good for interactive workshop 
presentations.The material may go into as much detail as needed with perfect 
hierarchical navigation. This is rated as complementary to otherwise read-only 
bulky PP advertisings.What about pictures?=Photos and screenshots are 
already there to be embedded in a zim book. You may change their displayed size 
(thumbnail preview / (any medium size preview) / full-size version) with 
right-click "Edit Properties" dialog or Ctrl-E with the cursor at picture 
position. Good to know.What about vector graphics?=Zim allows any 
application (OpenOffice suite, ...) and in particular of course inkscape for 
creating scalable vector graphics. Scaling the size is done equally as with 
other pictures. BTW, allow me to share a nice article in this context:  
10-tips-for-better-diagrams-in-inkscape  
http://lightcastletech.com/10-tips-for-better-diagrams-in-inkscape/Zooming 
in/out=At presentations a common but still nifty feature is Ctrl "+" and 
Ctrl "-" for zooming in and zooming out. This is typically known by many other 
applications and browsers.--- But wait --- there is a difference.Ctrl-P saves a 
temporary html version of a zim page and invokes the browser on it. Within the 
browser the zooming in and zooming out works as expected, whereas within zim 
only font size is changed, not the embedded pictures or svg graphics.Because 
picture size is already there as locally configurable attribute of the linked 
picture I'd like to propose (a preferences switch?) to allow the 
synchronization of all picture sizes with the actual font zooming factor, given 
there is some default mapped to 100% (factor 1.0).Of course there is the work 
around with html export, but having this feature built in within zim would give 
it another asset with great benefit. What do you think?Best regards, and thanks 
a lot!,Andreas___
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