On 1/25/2011 4:50 PM, Ed Nisley wrote:
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 16:00 -0500, [email protected] wrote:
The Fade Smoothly slide transition doesn't appear to work
for me with LibreOffice
That's not a bug, that's a feature!
[Rant]
Death to transitions and painful death to transitions-with-cute-sounds.
As a general rule, audiences do not want to see clever transitions; they
want to see the *content*. Anything that gets in the way of seeing the
content is Chart Junk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart_junk
Just show the pix, blink from one to the next, and get on with the show.
[/Rant]
It depends on your audience. You can't say "as a general rule" for
something like this. Some people (and groups) are quite fond of bright
shiny objects, and expect a slick animated show with elaborate
transitions. Other people (like you) demand a spartan no-nonsense
bare-bones approach. I would guess that most CEOs and military officers
would fall into the latter group -- people who are both conservative by
nature don't like their time being wasted. Tailor your show to what your
audience is going to like, and it will have the greatest chance of being
well received. Obviously, you have to know a bit about an audience when
choosing transitions.
Just out of curiosity, do any presentation packages allow you to specify
and use at build time one or more named transitions, and let you pick
classes of transitions for different audiences without having to rebuild
(edit) the presentation? I would think that very useful. If you see that
you picked too elaborate (slow, loud) transitions and your audience is
getting restless, with a few clicks on the control panel you could shift
on the fly to snappier transitions. Or, if you sense that your audience
is bored, you could select more elaborate transitions.
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