From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/72983 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pavneet Arora Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Migrating from prosper to simpleslides in creating presentations Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:49:44 -0500 Organization: Waroc Message-ID: <4EDF52D8.9010607@waroc.com> References: <4EDE99D2.3080006@waroc.com> <4EDF23FB.5070308@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: pavneet_arora@waroc.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323258607 21335 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2011 11:50:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 11:50:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users To: "Thomas A. 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[67.71.44.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fm5sm2966353qab.20.2011.12.07.03.49.45 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:49:46 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110921 Thunderbird/3.1.15 In-Reply-To: <4EDF23FB.5070308@uni-bonn.de> X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=209.85.216.169; country=US; region=CA; city=Mountain View; postalcode=94043; latitude=37.4192; longitude=-122.0574; metrocode=807; areacode=650; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.4192,-122.0574&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0rG6bNMQG - 1728fa370287 - 20111207 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:72983 Archived-At: 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 -- ----- - Pavneet Arora Waroc Fine Audio + Custom Home Cinema www.waroc.com 416.937.WAROC (9276) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________