From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/29294 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Johan Sandblom" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: slightly OT: presentation tool Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:52:43 +0200 Message-ID: <97a06f070607120452s6a53a1c0x856e443a55eac6be@mail.gmail.com> References: Reply-To: johan.sandblom@ki.se, mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152705187 31023 80.91.229.2 (12 Jul 2006 11:53:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:53:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 12 13:53:04 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0dH5-0006xB-9k for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:53:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CCD5127E8; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:53:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11900-02-6; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:52:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB8DD12858; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:52:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE8D412858 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:52:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11900-02-5 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:52:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.234]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 9175C127E8 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:52:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 67so111063wri for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:52:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.82.109.13 with SMTP id h13mr62501buc; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:52:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.44.13 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:52:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:29294 Archived-At: 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 : > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell