From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/81562 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan BRASLAU Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: prezi presentations Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:16:53 +0200 Organization: CEA DSM-IRAMIS-SPEC Message-ID: <20130409161653.63e01e73@sole> References: <516403DC.3070901@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365517046 26114 80.91.229.3 (9 Apr 2013 14:17:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Apr 09 16:17:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from [195.12.62.10] (helo=balder.ntg.nl) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UPZMW-0007Qj-IS for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:17:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 373C8102B6; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:16:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id LPD5tHWKtS+L; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:16:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37121102B7; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:16:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E21102B7 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:16:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id JGH7Ft7WI1nG for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:16:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77029102B6 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:16:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from oxalide-out.extra.cea.fr (oxalide-out.extra.cea.fr [132.168.224.8]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r39EGsKm000473 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:16:54 +0200 Original-Received: from epeire1.extra.cea.fr (epeire1.extra.cea.fr [132.167.198.31]) by oxalide.extra.cea.fr (8.14.2/8.14.2/CEAnet-Internet-out-2.3) with ESMTP id r39EGrX5022076 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:16:54 +0200 Original-Received: from orpin2.extra.cea.fr (orpin2.extra.cea.fr [132.167.198.5]) by epeire1.extra.cea.fr (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r39EGrQM030521; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:16:53 +0200 (envelope-from alan.braslau@cea.fr) Original-Received: from sole (iram-ha-003840.extra.cea.fr [132.166.25.152]) by orpin2.extra.cea.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8/CEAnet-Intranet-out-1.2) with ESMTP id r39EGruU009337; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:16:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: <516403DC.3070901@uni-bonn.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.17; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=132.168.224.8; country=FR; region=A3; city=Gif-sur-yvette; latitude=48.6833; longitude=2.1333; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.6833,2.1333&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 06JlOgSLN - 51ef0ef70b74 - 20130409 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:81562 Archived-At: On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:04:44 +0200 "Thomas A. Schmitz" wrote: > Hi all, > > this is a very far shot, but just maybe... I have been looking at prezi > (http://prezi.com/). There's lots of aspects there that don't appeal to > me, but I find the general idea very nice: a presentation is sort of a > big poster, with some background graphics. You define areas on this > poster into which your content goes (so these would be the "slides" in a > conventional presentation). When you show your presentation, your viewer > will zoom in on these areas and present them full screen, and it will > move along a predefined path, thus showing the areas (slides) in a > certain order. The nice thing is that you can, at any moment, zoom out > and show the entire poster, thus giving an overview of your presentation > in which only the bigger elements (headlines etc.) will be readable. Now > I was wondering if the same couldn't be done with ConTeXt, pdf and > javascript: producing a big pdf with a background image would be fairly > easy (metapost's vector graphics would look good at any zoom level). > Placing slides with content there could be done via layers. Zooming in > and showing certain areas is doable (but obviously would depend on the > pdf viewer, especially for the full screen mode). I have no idea if we > have support for rotating areas in a pdf viewer. Would javascript be > capable of automating this, i.e. defining areas in a pdf, displaying > them at a certain zoom level, and move from one area to the next? I > think this would be a nice alternative to traditional slide shows. > > Thomas Very fashionable, phluffy, breaks the ice at parties... I sat through a prezi presentation recently. The speaker took us on a long trip. It was "cool"! But in the end, there was not much to retain, and I thought: "where's the beef?". As to the constant zooming in and out, I kept wondering what the little specks represented (that I knew we would soon be visiting). Sort of like the old transparency technique of hiding parts with paper flaps. Lots of suspense! :) Remember, viewed from afar, all organisms look just like flies. For further discussion, I suggest: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________