Michael Jakl wrote:
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)
I've been away, sorry for causing trouble. The presentation was what I
did for ApacheCon -which required PPT.
I de-corporatised and checked in for robert, before abandoning him.
-in SmartFrog we use *.sxw which can be handled by forrest or turned
into PDF in openoffice itself. I have a 20 line open office basic script
to do just that, ant tasks to do it for an entire directory tree. This
is how I normally create PDF files.
Open Office XML can be diffed by unzipping the XML, but XML is a dog for
merging, as even if there isn't a conflict at the text level, you can
create invalid XML documents with ease.
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.
.tex files merge way better than XML and let different people work on
chapters of a paper separately. this is something I note in the LaTeX
written postmortem of the build process of my first book:
http://people.apache.org/~stevel/papers/refactoring_publishing.pdf
For graphs I like to use Graphviz[2] which is also plain text with
various output formats.
I'd like something good for pictures too, and don't want to do SVG by hand.
I will take a look at S5; I don't have any personal affection for PPT (I
work on linux, so use OpenOffice except to deal with office 2007 cruft).
anyway, for those people who have seen the PPT or PDF, what do they think?
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