* slightly OT: presentation tool
@ 2006-07-12 11:29 Thomas A. Schmitz
2006-07-12 11:52 ` Johan Sandblom
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From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2006-07-12 11:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
2006-07-12 11:29 slightly OT: presentation tool Thomas A. Schmitz
@ 2006-07-12 11:52 ` Johan Sandblom
2006-07-12 12:52 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-12 12:50 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Johan Sandblom @ 2006-07-12 11:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
2006-07-12 11:29 slightly OT: presentation tool Thomas A. Schmitz
2006-07-12 11:52 ` Johan Sandblom
@ 2006-07-12 12:50 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-12 12:50 ` Renaud AUBIN
2006-07-12 14:23 ` Adam Lindsay
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2006-07-12 12:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
2006-07-12 11:29 slightly OT: presentation tool Thomas A. Schmitz
2006-07-12 11:52 ` Johan Sandblom
2006-07-12 12:50 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2006-07-12 12:50 ` Renaud AUBIN
2006-07-12 14:23 ` Adam Lindsay
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From: Renaud AUBIN @ 2006-07-12 12:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
2006-07-12 11:52 ` Johan Sandblom
@ 2006-07-12 12:52 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-12 18:51 ` nico
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2006-07-12 12:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
2006-07-12 11:29 slightly OT: presentation tool Thomas A. Schmitz
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2006-07-12 12:50 ` Renaud AUBIN
@ 2006-07-12 14:23 ` Adam Lindsay
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From: Adam Lindsay @ 2006-07-12 14:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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* Re: slightly OT: presentation tool
2006-07-12 12:52 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2006-07-12 18:51 ` nico
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From: nico @ 2006-07-12 18:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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