[H-GEN] SVG-based slide generator

[Ben Fowler]

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Hi all,

I mentiond this on IRC a month or so ago, but somebody reminded me about 
it again recently, so I thought I'd post to a wider audience.

One of the people at work recently wrote yet another UNIX-based 
slide/presentation tool.  Like the million-odd other programs to do 
this, it aims to work as a substitute to PowerPoint, and from what we 
can tell, it seems to do a pretty good job.

"JackSVG" [1] is a an Open-Sourced tool written in Perl that takes a 
XML-marked-up document [2] containing the contents of your presentation, 
and emits a single, self-contained animated SVG file containing your 
slides.  The guy who wrote it hacked it together over a few weekends and 
is in the process of tidying it up further.

I've played with it under Mozilla under Linux, and IE and Opera under 
Windows (using the Adobe SVG plugin in all cases),and it seems to work fine.

Check out the project's home page at:

http://titanium.dstc.edu.au/xml/jacksvg


There are also some sample SVG presentations lying around on that site 
as well, but the Missing File Fairy might've gotten them first.  If 
anybody has questions, mail me or ask me on IRC.  Have fun.

-regards,

Ben.


[1] The name is not my fault.

[2] The author also wrote a second tool for people who hate XML - it
     takes a text file with bullet-pointed text and headings, and
     converts it into a format acceptable to JackSVG.

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