slideshow for non-technical presentations

[Saša Janiška]

Hello,

I’m (slowly) working through Realm of Racket being interested to use it
for several programming projects. However, I’m also enthusiastic to
embrac Slideshow library and wonder if someone can share his/her
experiences about using it for non-technical presentations?

In the past I was using LyX/LaTeX/Beamer, but the obvious ’problem’ is
that all such presentations practically look the same…another option
would be to learn/use ConTeXt, but at the moment I do not have really
need for another high-quality typesetting markup, so would like to take
advantage of Racket.

It would be also nice to use it for e.g. my wife’s presentations
(medical field), but wonder how much are Slideshow presentations
portable considering that I’m on Linux and at my wife’s working place
they use some newer version of Windows (XP was the last version used
here), iow. is it safe to prepare it on Linux and ’execute’ under Linux
by putting the whole environment on USB stick?


Sincerely,
Gour

--
As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body,
from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes
into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered
by such a change.

[Matthias Felleisen]

> On Jun 1, 2016, at 3:30 PM, Saša Janiška <go...@atmarama.com> wrote:
>
> is it safe to prepare it on Linux and ’execute’ under Linux
> by putting the whole environment on USB stick?

Yes.


(I have no experience w/ non-technical presentations.)

[Asumu Takikawa]

On 2016-06-01 21:30:59 +0200, Saša Janiška wrote:
> It would be also nice to use it for e.g. my wife’s presentations
> (medical field), but wonder how much are Slideshow presentations
> portable considering that I’m on Linux and at my wife’s working place
> they use some newer version of Windows

One thing that's not portable is the fonts that you use. You will
probably have to install the same fonts or ensure that you only
use fonts that are available on both machines.

Alternatively, you can export the slideshow to PDF if you don't have any fancy
animations/interactivity that won't be preserved well in PDF.

Cheers,
Asumu

[Saša Janiška]

Matthias Felleisen <matt...@ccs.neu.edu>
writes:

>> is it safe to prepare it on Linux and ’execute’ under Linux
>> by putting the whole environment on USB stick?
>
>
> Yes.

Ahh, I wanted to ask "to prepare under Linux" and "execute under
Windows". :-(

> (I have no experience w/ non-technical presentations.)

OK.


Sinceely,
Gour

--
He is a perfect yogī who, by comparison to his own self,
sees the true equality of all beings, in both their
happiness and their distress, O Arjuna!

[Saša Janiška]

Asumu Takikawa <as...@ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> One thing that's not portable is the fonts that you use. You will
> probably have to install the same fonts or ensure that you only
> use fonts that are available on both machines.

Hmm…that might be problematic considering I do not have any clue which
fonts are on ’presentational machine’.

> Alternatively, you can export the slideshow to PDF if you don't have
> any fancy animations/interactivity that won't be preserved well in
> PDF.

That might be good-enough for my wife, while I probably use my own
netbook for presentation to be safe…


Sincerely,
Gour

--
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction,
is intelligent among men, and he is in the transcendental position,
although engaged in all sorts of activities.

[Gour]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 19:39:40 -0400
Asumu Takikawa <as...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> One thing that's not portable is the fonts that you use. You will
> probably have to install the same fonts or ensure that you only
> use fonts that are available on both machines.

I'm resuming my interest for Racket stuff and, afaict, based on the
docs (https://docs.racket-lang.org/pict/Basic_Pict_Constructors.html#%28def._%28%28lib._pict%2Fmain..rkt%29._text%29%29) for:

(text content [style size angle]) → pict?

content : string?
style : text-style/c = null
size : (integer-in 1 1024) = 12
angle : real? = 0

one can choose which font to use for the presentation, but wonder how
it would be e.g. possible to create presentation on the Linux and the
make it portable by, somehow, embedding fonts and putting everything on
e.g. USB stick in order to make it presentable on e.g. some Windows
machine?


Sincerely,
Gour