[discuss] Impress Free Path animation

2005-05-26 Thread RobinH
I am delighted with the latest beta version of Impress (1.9.104) and have been converting some of my presentations. I was disappointed however to see that though there are a great number of set paths for animating an object there appears to be no way of animating along a Bezier curve. I have

[discuss] Impress free path animation

2005-03-18 Thread Ian Lynch
I was in a school earlier this week where a Physics teacher had created some really impressive animated presentations in Powerpoint. Unfortunately these depend on the ability to specify arbitrary paths to animate bitmap graphics along. Earlier versions of PPT don't support this. But the feature all

Re: [discuss] Impress Free Path animation

2005-05-27 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 18:09 +1200, RobinH wrote: > > There are several uses I can think of for animation along a path: progress > along roads, a bee buzzing from > flower to flower, the workings of the human body, and so on So particularly important in education. I'm told the free path code is

Re: [discuss] Impress Free Path animation

2005-05-30 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is it intended to have this effect in the final version? I do hope so! > > I was told a later version but I'd agree that if its not very difficult > to do it should be in 2.0 or asap after. > This is getting a FAQ, slowly but surely. Even if it doesn't get

Re: [discuss] Impress free path animation

2005-03-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Lynch wrote: I was in a school earlier this week where a Physics teacher had created some really impressive animated presentations in Powerpoint. Unfortunately these depend on the ability to specify arbitrary paths to animate bitmap graphics along. Earlier versions of PPT don't support this. Bu

Re: [discuss] Impress free path animation

2005-03-18 Thread Sweet Coffee
Hi Ian! I began another thread on the mailing list with the subject "MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future" http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=discuss&msgNo=47747 http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=discuss&by=thread&from=786478 You can check out MSN Pro

Re: [discuss] Impress free path animation

2005-03-18 Thread Sweet Coffee
Hi nicu! > i believe you want this kind of animation: > http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/02/16/1427218.shtml?tid=130&tid=75&tid=93 Thank you for this resource. SC - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additio

Re: [discuss] Impress free path animation

2005-03-18 Thread =?iso-8859-15?Q?Lars_D=2E_Nood=E9n?=
I saw lot of useful animations and presentations using Authorware and similar tools. I suppose Director would be useful as well. But I think either may be way beyond what's within the scope of presentation graphics (Impress). -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software patents kill

Re: [discuss] Impress free path animation

2005-03-18 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:40, Nicu Buculei wrote: > Ian Lynch wrote: > > i believe you want this kind of animation: > http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/02/16/1427218.shtml?tid=130&tid=75&tid=93 Thanks that is useful. Just can't find it now in 2.0 beta. Where is the follow path option? I

Re: [discuss] Impress free path animation

2005-03-18 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks that is useful. Just can't find it now in 2.0 beta. Where is the > follow path option? I have looked under the Motion paths tab but can't > find a follow path. > You're right, that's one of the things we've dropped. Time was simply over after the Impr

Re: [discuss] Impress free path animation

2005-03-20 Thread Peter Kupfer
Ian Lynch wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:40, Nicu Buculei wrote: Really having something to trigger events such as the already defined sound effects or a graphic fade etc would be a good start. I would not have though that too difficult to implement. Just store the coordinates of where the event