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Re: Keynote like effect for Kpresenter
by Ian Monroe on Tuesday 30/Oct/2007, @06:02
Have you seen Beamer presentations though? They are always a higher quality then other presentations. Personally I rather dislike LaTeX, but if you write your papers with it...
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Re: Keynote like effect for Kpresenter
by Aaron J. Seigo on Tuesday 30/Oct/2007, @12:29
yes, i have even used LaTeX Beamer. the problems are this:

- the process is still more complicated than it should be for such a thing. yes, i want point-and-click here, if only for all the others marooned on this same island of "i hate the powerpoint model".

- the slides are too monotonic in look, and the resulting presentations are often pretty boring looking even if they can be elegant.

- as someone noted above, they are best for text heavy presentations

it is completely possible to provide a templating system that takes into consideration graphics and other media on slides, effects and other eye candy and general jazz in a point and click interface.

i actually sat down and design such a system on paper once (during that same air flight ;) i just don't have the time right now to write another application (gotta finish the ones i've currently got started.. you may have heard about them)
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  • Re: Keynote like effect for Kpresenter
    by Thomas Zander on Tuesday 30/Oct/2007, @13:32
    > i actually sat down and design such a system on paper once

    Please do digitize them :)
    Just scanning (or send them to me for scanning) would do. But you can use wiki.koffice.org if you want.

    I'd love to see your views on this subject as someone that both knows design and actually eats this dogfood a lot :)
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  • Re: Keynote like effect for Kpresenter
    by Ask on Friday 02/Nov/2007, @00:59
    You might want use latex with the latest version of powerdot. You may like it.
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