Pinpoint 0.1.0 released
| From: | Øyvind Kolås <pippin-AT-gimp.org> | |
| To: | clutter-announce-AT-clutter-project.org | |
| Subject: | pinpoint 0.1.0 | |
| Date: | Wed, 18 May 2011 17:30:11 +0100 | |
| Message-ID: | <BANLkTinGPr51jcm46Gw1zCco+Tge02Es=w@mail.gmail.com> | |
| Cc: | gnome-announce-list-AT-gnome.org | |
| Archive‑link: | Article |
pinpoint - a tool for making hackers do excellent presentations =============================================================== Pinpoint a simple presentation tool that hopes to avoid audience death by bullet point and instead encourage presentations containing beautiful images and small amounts of concise text in slides. Pinpoints main web-presence is a page in the GNOME wiki: http://live.gnome.org/Pinpoint This is the first release of pinpoint, with the following features: ? Text position ? Styling of font, text-color, contrast background and text positioning for global default and per slide overrides. ? Image backgrounds ? Video backgrounds ? Pango markup inside slides ? Transitions, extendable through json ? PDF export ? Embedding commands to run for demos in slides, with editable commandline during presentation. ? Monitoring of source file with live updates of changed slide for authoring The following illustrates what a pinpoint presentation looks like, for a more exhaustive overview of pinpoints features see the included sample presentation. ______________[example pinpoint presentation]_______________________ # the 0th "slide" provides default styling for the presentation [bottom] # position of text [slide-bg.jpg] # default slide background --- [black] [center] # override background and text position A presentation --------- # lines starting with hyphens separate slides The format is meant to be <u>simple</u> --- [ammo.jpg] # override background ? Bullet point lists through unicode ? Evil, but sometimes needed ____________________________________________________________________ You can download the pinpoint 0.1.2 release from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pinpoint/0.1/pinpo... The sha1sum of this archive is: 4b56dfa36662fb8034e61cf12d1d006775e0a3a3 pinpoint-0.1.0.tar.bz2 You can clone the pinpoint git repository with the following command, or other equivalent commands for GNOME git repositories. git clone http://git.gnome.org/browse/pinpoint Dependencies: Clutter 1.4 or newer GdkPixbuf 2.0 or newer GIO 2.0 or newer cairo-pdf 1.9.12 or newer and pangocairo (for optional PDF export) ClutterGst 1.3 or newer (for optional live videos as slide backgrounds) Dax 0.2 or newer (for experimental SVG slide background support) This release of pinpoint has been realized through contributions from: Øyvind Kolås, Damien Lespiau, Emmanuele Bassi, Neil Roberts, Nick Richards and Daniel G. Siegel. _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list gnome-announce-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list
Posted May 26, 2011 9:01 UTC (Thu)
by ebirdie (guest, #512)
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Broad claim, I think, because if it primarily was about the tool to achieve the claim. I think the project could do more help to itself by putting up screenshots from presentation slides living up to the claim and setting up a collection of those "beatiful images" having impact to audience. Being an artist, or having an artist available for beautiful images with a sense on the subject while preparing presentation is rarely the case.
Of course PowerPoint made us all presenters, in that sense it WAS about the tool, but not anymore.
Sincerely,
Posted May 26, 2011 14:38 UTC (Thu)
by ebassi (subscriber, #54855)
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Pinpoint 0.1.0 released
and small amounts of concise text in slides"
one who has pulled hairs on putting together presentations, if it just was about the tool, but it isn't
Pinpoint 0.1.0 released