So people are starting to use AxPoint. Wonderful! But people aren't understanding everything, not so wonderful... So here's some hints and tips.
- For the <source-code> tag, you can specify <source-code fontsize="11"> to get smaller fonts if your source won't fit on a slide.
- You can really get great effects by specifying <slide default-transition="none"> and then using <point transition="replace"> on the first of a group of points you want to appear at the same time.
- The -l option to /usr/bin/axpoint launches acroread for you, making edit/check/debug cycles a bit faster.
- AxPoint supports SVG - this is really useful, to (for example) draw diagrams, lines, curves, circles etc. You can see an example of this in This presentation I gave to Birmingham.pm
- AxPoint doesn't do anything special with characters itself, but it is XML, so to get a < sign you have to type
<, and to get an & sign you need to type &
I hope that helps those of you who like me are still doing presentations for upcoming conferences!
SVG Example
Can we have a look at the original source for the presentation PDF you linked?
Re:SVG Example
Matts on 2002-06-27T22:39:45
Everything on axkit.org should be source-viewable by appending ?passthru=1 to the URL.
Re:SVG Example
Matts on 2002-06-27T22:41:03
Oh, but a warning, I wrote that one before I implemented SVG's <path> tag, so everything had to be done with <line>, which was extremely painful and tedious. <path> takes the tedium out of it.
