Re: Migrating from prosper to simpleslides in creating presentations

[Pavneet Arora <pavneet_arora@waroc.com>]

BTW, I am using evince under Ubuntu and haven't noticed too many
inconsistencies, but then I don't normally use transitions, but do use
incremental slides a lot, which I understand are also only pertinent
with PDFs: from p. 4 of the prosper manual in the section for Overlays,
``All those macros are only really meaningful in pdf mode; in ps mode,
they do nothing or interpret their argument, depending on the option
no/accumulate.''

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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