Re: Migrating from prosper to simpleslides in creating presentations

[Pavneet Arora <pavneet_arora@waroc.com>]

Dear Thomas,

Nauseating is an apt description ;).  In general, I too avoid them, but with 
this upcoming audience, unadorned may be mistaken (incorrectly) for plain.  I do 
think, however, that `dissolve' is subtle enough to offer a reasonable compromise.

BTW, is there a way of doing incremental slides with the simpleslides module 
like the overlay feature from prosper?  Or is that easily achieved in some other 
way that is native to ConTeXt?

Thanks and regards.


On 11-12-07 03:29 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On 12/06/2011 11:40 PM, Pavneet Arora wrote:
>> Thanks Wolfgang and Marco for the quick responses. Marco, `impressive'
>> looks just the thing that will easily allow me to add transitions while
>> still using simpleslides to get me going until I can do my own DIY slides.
>>
>> Regards.
>
> Glad you found a solution. Maybe just a word explaining why I find it a waste of
> time to do work on such transitions in simpleslides: even if we accept, for the
> sake of the argument, that such transitions are more than a mere distraction, it
> is almost impossible to get acceptable results across platforms and pdf viewers.
> Most viewers under linux will either not show transitions at all or show them in
> such an ugly way that your audience may leave in disgust. If something like this
> doesn't work, newbies will of course assume that it's the module's fault, while
> in reality, it's the implementation of the pdf viewer. Instead of having
> inconsistent and potentially unsatisfying results, I prefer to leave these
> transitions to outside tools.
>
> And a tiny bit of anecdotal evidence: I had been using a "cube" transition for a
> while in my classroom lectures. I thought it was cool. And then, one day, I was
> standing somewhere in the back of the classroom while I was changing slides with
> my remote control, and I saw the effect for the first time from the audience's
> point of view. The slide pretty much fills up the front wall of the classroom,
> and watching the cube turn was absolutely nauseating; I was surprised that none
> of the students had ever complained (or thrown up...). It was horrible, and I
> have given up all transitions ever since...
>
> Thomas

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