slightly OT: presentation tool

slightly OT: presentation tool

[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 and xpdf on linux) had smaller problems as  
well. I have recently found a relatively small python solution that i  
like a lot; I hasten to add that I'm in no way affiliated with the  
developers; I just have installed it and use it a lot.

It's called keyjnote; it's free (as in beer), and it offers a lot of  
nice eye-candy during presentations of pdf-files such as nice  
transitions, a sorted view that shows all slides in one window and  
lets you choose one, and the possibility to highlight parts of the  
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 it costs  
nothing to just have a look at it: http://keyjnote.sourceforge.net/  
And I find that it makes presentations done in ConTeXt look even  
better! Well, if you come to Epen, you'll see yourself ;-)

Best

Thomas

Re: slightly OT: presentation tool

[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 <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>:
> 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 and xpdf on linux) had smaller problems as
> well. I have recently found a relatively small python solution that i
> like a lot; I hasten to add that I'm in no way affiliated with the
> developers; I just have installed it and use it a lot.
>
> It's called keyjnote; it's free (as in beer), and it offers a lot of
> nice eye-candy during presentations of pdf-files such as nice
> transitions, a sorted view that shows all slides in one window and
> lets you choose one, and the possibility to highlight parts of the
> 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 it costs
> nothing to just have a look at it: http://keyjnote.sourceforge.net/
> And I find that it makes presentations done in ConTeXt look even
> better! Well, if you come to Epen, you'll see yourself ;-)
>
> Best
>
> Thomas
>
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Re: slightly OT: presentation tool

[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

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Re: slightly OT: presentation tool

[nico]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:52:24 +0200, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> 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 to be free when using python  
(http://www.python.org/psf/license).

Regards,
BG

Re: slightly OT: presentation tool

[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 it costs  
>   
i just took a look; it runs out of the box on windows
> nothing to just have a look at it: http://keyjnote.sourceforge.net/  
> And I find that it makes presentations done in ConTeXt look even  
>   
do they have plans for hyperlinks and such?
> better! Well, if you come to Epen, you'll see yourself ;-)
>   
-) 

Hans 

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Re: slightly OT: presentation tool

[Renaud AUBIN]

Very nice but since GS doesn't seem to be happy with javascript... I
can't use it for my ConTeXt-made slides (with javascript steps and
animations)
Anyway, it's nice to know it exists...

Thomas A. Schmitz a écrit :

>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 and xpdf on linux) had smaller problems as  
>well. I have recently found a relatively small python solution that i  
>like a lot; I hasten to add that I'm in no way affiliated with the  
>developers; I just have installed it and use it a lot.
>
>It's called keyjnote; it's free (as in beer), and it offers a lot of  
>nice eye-candy during presentations of pdf-files such as nice  
>transitions, a sorted view that shows all slides in one window and  
>lets you choose one, and the possibility to highlight parts of the  
>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 it costs  
>nothing to just have a look at it: http://keyjnote.sourceforge.net/  
>And I find that it makes presentations done in ConTeXt look even  
>better! Well, if you come to Epen, you'll see yourself ;-)
>
>Best
>
>Thomas
>
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Re: slightly OT: presentation tool

[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 don't subscribe to any ports systems any more. I tried tracking 
through the python dependencies myself, and got pretty frustrated, but 
Bob Ippolito's packages (Mac OS X 10.4) were a tremendous help:
  http://pythonmac.org/packages/py24-fat/index.html
(pdftk has its own mac installers, and I installed GS a while ago.)
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