Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 03:46:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Magicpoint! Message-ID: <199807010146.DAA10640@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Hi, lately have been playing a little bit with magicpoint, and i have to say it is a great slide presentation tool. So i would like to advertise the tool and ask people if they want to give it a try, suggest possible enhancements, report bugs either in the implementation or in the documentation (very scarce at the moment), and perhaps help adding features. Weekly snapshot of mgp are available at ftp://sh.wide.ad.jp/WIDE/free-ware/mgp-snap and in particular the 980629 snap includes the possibility to define "styles" which was the main thing I was missing from the 1.03a version currently in ports. These snaps compile cleanly on FreeBSD (just do sh configure ; xmkmf -a; make so you should not have trouble with it. Features of magicpoint: * it is a slide presentation tool capable of displaying text, graphics (most image types incl. postscript) ; * it runs under X11 so you can have the presentation locally or on a remote display; * it lets you annotate the slides at runtime with a simple built-in drawing tool (a pen writing lines of different colors); * can launch applications and either show the output formatted in the slide, or show the application's window within the slide with full control; * uses a very simple, ascii based, slide definition language, so you can build slides in a matter of minutes using a simple editor. * can generate html or postscript from the slides. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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