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[Philip Serracino Inglott <phsi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear JessyInk developers,

This is just a note of thanks for your stellar work.
A few days ago I graduated with my masters in Philosophy of Science and
Technology. Since my thesis dealt with Democracy and 'open' type digital
technologies I wanted to prepare a kick-ass presentation using OSS, so I was
not gonna use Prezi, but the only other alternative seemed like OpenOffice.
Then I found JessyInk ... WOW!

Thanks on 2 counts then: 1 I did prepare a kick-ass presentation (I hope)
and 2, I could practice what I was preaching (for once :-)

Anyway the presentation can be downloaded here
http://www.inkwina.net/PSTS/EEDDMBDG.svg
It is a bit big and really only makes sense when used in a presentation,
which (if you have 20 mins) is here http://vimeo.com/16547606
In any case all my content is CC-BY-SA so feel free to use parts of this as
an example of what JessyInk can be used for. (some images used are 'fair
use'. the rest is from wikimedia commons)

There were a couple of gotchas I encountered. This presentation only renders
perfectly in Chrome (my old laptop is was too slow for smoothly doing high
zoom animation under firefox) and firefox renders text-on-path badly.
The font integration had to be done manually and image hrefs had to be
edited manually before putting online as none of the export fuctions work
well with jessyink. I passed the svg through scour to try and make it a bit
smaller. It did introduce a couple of unwanted inherited properties which I
had to correct manually.
The svg is not optimal at all, I did not use clones (I never know before if
I will be tweaking a copy of an icon), and there must be a bazillion
duplicate gradients. There are also a few empty text fields ... how do I get
rid of these automagically?

Thanks again, and I look forward to new features and improvements of this
great tool. My wishlist would include good image and font collection and
export (not embedding) for publishing online, and the ability to recored
timings (for generating screencasts, by creating the video directly
following the timings rather than screen grab).

Keep it up,

Philip Serracino Inglott