[NTG-context] slightly OT: presentation tool

2006-07-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
As the subject line says, this is slightly OT, but it may be of interest to some. If you produce your presentations in ConTeXt and want to show the resulting pdf, you have to use a pdf-viewer. I just hate Adobe Reader with its bloat and its intrusiveness; other solutions (such as evince

Re: [NTG-context] slightly OT: presentation tool

2006-07-12 Thread Johan Sandblom
Looks amazing. Looking at the license it appears in fact to be free as in speech (distributed under GPL 2 or later), which of course only makes it more attractive! Johan 2006/7/12, Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As the subject line says, this is slightly OT, but it may be of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] slightly OT: presentation tool

2006-07-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Johan Sandblom wrote: Looks amazing. Looking at the license it appears in fact to be free as i suppose that it more or less has to be free anyway because gs and python are used Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] slightly OT: presentation tool

2006-07-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: screen with your mouse pointer. There are some disadvantages: it has a lot of pythonish dependencies (on OS X, I could install them via darwinports, but it's a lot more difficult on most linux distros), it needs opengl support, and a reasonably fast machine. But

Re: [NTG-context] slightly OT: presentation tool

2006-07-12 Thread Adam Lindsay
Nice one, Thomas. A few comments for the Mac folks: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: screen with your mouse pointer. There are some disadvantages: it has a lot of pythonish dependencies (on OS X, I could install them via darwinports, but it's a lot more difficult on most linux distros), it I

Re: [NTG-context] slightly OT: presentation tool

2006-07-12 Thread nico
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:52:24 +0200, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johan Sandblom wrote: Looks amazing. Looking at the license it appears in fact to be free as i suppose that it more or less has to be free anyway because gs and python are used Don't know for gs, but you there's no need