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[Hannes Hochreiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Philip:

Thanks a lot for your mail! It is really a big boost in motivation when 
people write about their positive experiences with JessyInk. I had a 
look at your presentation and wanted to thank you for sharing. It is 
really great! I very much enjoyed it. Oh, by the way, congratulations on 
your graduation.

I completely agree on your suggestions for improvement. The rendering in 
different browsers can be quite different. Unfortunately, there is 
little that can be done by JessyInk to improve this (other then 
submitting bugs). I check my presentations in Chromium and Firefox on a 
regular basis, sometimes they render better in one sometimes in the 
other. Overall however, I see a pretty rapid improvement of the 
situation. For example, as you noted, Firefox was slow in rendering the 
zooms for a long time. To my pleasure, I noticed that this was no longer 
the case with the latest version I tried.

Fonts are a big issue as well. I have to look into this in more detail, 
as it came up quite frequently lately. Since the overall situation of 
fonts on the web improved quite a lot in the last few months, I would 
hope that I can find a good solution for JessyInk as well.

The export with image and font collections should be possible without 
too much work. If I understand your suggestion correctly, you would like 
to have the images and fonts copied into a defined location and linked 
with relative paths from the svg file so that you can put all the parts 
on a web-server and have the presentation display correctly. So far I 
tried to embed as much as possible into the svg file, but having images 
and fonts separately might actually be a good idea.

Well, thanks again for writing and sharing your experiences, suggestions 
and the presentation!

Cheers,
Hannes



On 11/11/10 09:24, Philip Serracino Inglott wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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