From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/16932 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Maurice Diamantini Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \presentationstep in standard pdf format Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:47:05 +0100 Message-ID: <8E46A248-2D6C-11D9-B3C8-000A9595B57C@ensta.fr> References: <1099375440.32522.19.camel@tempete.lac.qc.ca> <2B5346B4-2CA3-11D9-9F65-0030659899AA@fiee.net> <41875A44.5050200@wxs.nl> <1099434120.15629.10.camel@m51.ASTRO.UMontreal.CA> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099468389 12069 80.91.229.6 (3 Nov 2004 07:53:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 07:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Maurice Diamantini Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Nov 03 08:52:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CPFwr-0006Yj-00 for ; Wed, 03 Nov 2004 08:52:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF7B1277F; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:52:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28106-06; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:52:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 298C812777; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:52:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8059B12777 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:52:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28307-02 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:52:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ns1.ensta.fr (unknown [147.250.10.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC2A412775 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:52:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by ns1.ensta.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3FEC31424C for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:51:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ns1.ensta.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ns1.ensta.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 73672-06 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:51:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ensta.ensta.fr (ensta.ensta.fr [147.250.1.1]) by ns1.ensta.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B1093140DA for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:51:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [147.250.33.133] (mac-oc1 [147.250.33.133]) by ensta.ensta.fr (8.11.6/9.11.6) with ESMTP id iA37pr906817; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:51:53 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1099434120.15629.10.camel@m51.ASTRO.UMontreal.CA> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:16932 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:16932 Le 2 nov. 04, =E0 23:22, David Munger a =E9crit : > Nothing seems to work here. I'm afraid the problem is indeed that > Acrobat Reader under Linux is not really JavaScript aware... > > Would it be possible to implement the steps commands such that steps > span over multiple slides instead of being managed by JavaScript? > > David I aggree with David that having the ConTeXt presentation feature without needed javascript would realy be great. Pdf is a standard, but not javascript. It's realy nice to come to a seminar only with a pdf file without=20 worrying about which pdf reader tool exists on the host computer. - Even with acroread 6.02 on osx there is some problem with some button (I don't remember which problem, but I just remember it's not=20 reliable); - Also Preview, the fastest pdf reader on osx (provide by Apple, then the it is standard pdf reader on osx) don't support javascript; - linux doesn't have pdf+javascript reader. So I think that ConTeXt should provide a mean (option in textexec) to make pdf-only version of presentation. Finaly there could be three output levels for pdf presentation : 1 - presentation step using javascript (with allow blinking, merging, zooming or other nice flashing features ;-) 2 - presentation step without javascript (one pdf page by step) =3D> Good format for presentation by foreign pdf reader 3 - pdf file one pdf page for each final step by page =3D> Good format for printing 2up or 4up slides This third output would also allow to print a "slide + comment" version of the presentation for the speacker. The option of texexec could be something like --pdfonly instead of --pdf, or simply --use-javascript=3Dfalse Maurice,