Hi! On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:20, Robert Burrell Donkin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Ian Holsman <[email protected]> wrote: >> Personally I think you should focus on the message of the presentation, not >> the format, and try to make it available to as many people as possible. >> Sadly this means PPT or PDF nowadays. > > in the end, binary formats are bad for collaboration since they can't > be diff'd. PDF is a fine final format but i'd need to get annotations > working using a FOSS editor. (if anyone clueful would like to jump in, > that'd be great)
What about latex-beamer[1]? It's plaintext and can be transformed into PDF, Postscript or any other format latex supports. Though, latex itself is also a large software package to add as a dependency. For graphs I like to use Graphviz[2] which is also plain text with various output formats. Cheers, Michael 1: http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ 2: http://www.graphviz.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
