Wesley T Allen wrote: > > I've never used PDF for presentations, though I know that they can > handle them. Can you do screen builds, like adding one element at a > time? > > Wes
Since I've just started this, my sense is that you would do it the "old-fashioned" way: duplicate the slide, add an element, duplicate the new slide, add...and so on. It was subtle, but I was trying to minimally indicate my disdain for the "cute" transitions that people seem to be compelled to use. I especially don't like list items sliding in from somewhere off the screen -- it's visually annoying and distracts from whatever it is the speaker is trying to say. One of the reasons I was trying HTML is for the linking to give the possiblity of either planned or opportunistic side-trips from the main talk -- say you're giving your presentation and you know at a certain slide, someone is likely to ask a question that takes you off your planned sequence. A carefully placed clickable object could take you on that side trip, then back to your main sequence later. You should be able to do that with hypertext in PDFs too. One of these days I'll figure out how to do them in Scribus. Gregory Pittman
