Sivakatirswami,
Yes Keynote can split the output but only during full screen mode. There is a preference under Preferences/ Presenter Display that has a check box for "Use alternate display to view presenter information" with some neat options for a timer/clock etc.. You can also preview what the second window looks like if you don't have a projector hooked up, by a button that says 'Edit Presenter Layout..." otherwise you don't get to see the second window until full screen mode. Also, I don't remember for sure but I think you have to turn Video Mirroring off? - not 100% sure though.
The thing that distinguishes Keynote from PowerPoint is that it has much richer graphics and video support. It also has better interaction using text and graphics for navigating. ( I was able to prototype a game that played in Keynote that could not be done in PP.) The other thing Keynote has is XML which will/should open some doors for other apps that might have even better tools to do something with the Keynote presentations.
I also agree that graphics support and graphic specific tools should be high on the list for the next improvements to REV. I would like to fill some of the 'holes' left behind during the transition from MM to Adobe for Director. I am sure once Adobe merges them DIrector might get better but for now there will be a nervous gap with people looking else where 'just in case' Director is dropped. Even if it isn't dropped I can at least exploit some of these issues.
Especially since a lot of people use Director/Flash for software development that it is not the best tool for and can actually make some projects obsolete. It would not take much of an argument to persuade these people to switch or at least try an xTalk for.
Tom
On May 1, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
Apple's new Keynote has an interesting new feature:
It can make 2 separate windows! Wow! (grin)
Ok, yes, REv can do that and a lot more though Rev's Graphic options are still a bit stone age compared to what iWorks offers now.
[aside: humbly suggest that for Rev to move forward, that the back end of the engine for applications development is already ramped up enough (for the time being), and and a new focus on graphics Dev both in the IDE and for delivery is needed to keep Rev on the Cutting Edge of the Future, especially now that Adobe has bought Macro Media. I know, I know, we don't want the core of the executable to get so bloated that delivery of a little widget application weighs in at 5-6 megabytes, so, ala Richard's earlier musings, some modularity option may be needed.]]
OK that said, I do have a specific question:
Keynote can output one window to the channel that goes out to the projector -- > video port. i.e. it shows on the screen. and the second window is locked onto the personal PC's LCD screen, where the latter window has notes for the presentor which are not seen by the audience who are watching output to the project --> large display screen in the front of the hall.
Thomas (McGr...) you do this stuff all the time right?
Sivakatirswami
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