Re: slightly OT: presentation tool

[Renaud AUBIN <aubin@nibua-r.org>]

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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