On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 04:50:07PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Tim wrote: > > > Back to your suggestion: do you know of an easy way to go from ODP to > > LaTeX/Beamer?
Yeah, so if that's not possible/easy, then that'll prevent me from making a transition. > Of course, it's all a matter of personal preference. I prefer substance > over form since I'm not a graphic artist or designer. I'm the same way. And because you're saying that, I suspect you're missing the point of what I'm saying. Often one wants to include screenshots or complex diagrams in a presentation to illustrate a dataflow or program output. But there's rarely enough space to do this in one slide and still have it readable to the audience. You could create 5 diagrams or screenshots with sliced up subsets of the information, each in a different slide, but that's not flexible and it takes time to cut them all up in just the right way. A zoomable canvas gets around this issue. This is a standard feature of the Prezi-knockoffs. Just throw your graphic (preferrably scalable) in there, and then if you need to focus on particular elements, either define a slide box that zooms in on it automatically, or during the talk you can do this manually. Defining slide boxes by hand by entering some numbers into source code is far from efficient. It takes you out of the mindset of building content. tim _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
