Comments on: Episode 086

By: heathenx

heathenx — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:14:30 +0000

@blendboom

Hmm, that’s odd. I haven’t had a problem like that before. What does your svg file look like in another browser, such as, Opera?

I made a quick-n-dirty svg just a few minutes ago. Open it up in your browser and see if it works for you. If it does then download it and compare mine to yours. There must be a difference somewhere.

jessyink_test.svg

By: blendboom

blendboom — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:15:12 +0000

Ok, I am using ubuntu 9.04, I see jessyink in the menu. I use 0.47 pre3 and I tried with 0.46+devel. JessyInk is version 1.3.1.
I opened the file and there was the jessyink code. Firefox shows me the normal svg-file. With jessyink firefox starts loading and stops sometimes with a bigger sometimes with a smaller piece. The background is black like in inkscape only the image fails.

Screens:
http://www.pic-upload.de/view-3432189/Bildschirmfoto-1.png.html
http://www.pic-upload.de/view-3432194/Bildschirmfoto-3.png.html
http://www.pic-upload.de/view-3432201/Bildschirmfoto-4.png.html
http://www.pic-upload.de/view-3432209/Bildschirmfoto-5.png.html

By: heathenx

heathenx — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:02:57 +0000

@blendboom
With version 0.47 you do not need to manually add the “onload jessyInkInit()” bit. That is only required for 0.46.

I just tried JessyInk 1.3.1 on 0.47pre4 and it works like a charm for me. You’ll have to give me a few more specifics so that I don’t have to assume things. What OS are you using? Do you see JessyInk in your Extensions menu? What version of JessyInk are you using? After you install JessyInk into your SVG have you tried to open that SVG file in a text editor to see if the script is loaded?

By: blendboom

blendboom — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:54:29 +0000

I’m using inkscape 0.47 pre3 and it doesn’t work. I am able to install jessyink, but in firefox I only see a small pice of the picture, only 10px. I tried onload jessyInkInit() and it also does not work. When I opened a slideshow from web there was no problem. I cannot understand why it does not work.

Can you help?

Blendboom

By: Fede

Fede — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:21:18 +0000

I’ve asked the question to Hannes, here you can find his reply:
https://answers.launchpad.net/jessyink/+question/77728

By: heathenx

heathenx — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:26:02 +0000

@Fede
Hmm…that’s an interesting problem. In all my time using presentations I have not needed to link to a slide up the chain. I normally do things in order. Regardless, I understand what you’re trying to do but I have not tried it. I’d have to play around with it and see if I could do it. In the meantime, you might get a an answer from Hannes straight away at https://answers.launchpad.net/jessyink. Post your question there. If it cannot be done perhaps this is something Hannes or the rest of the JessyInk coders might implement.

By: Fede

Fede — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:25:00 +0000

Thanks Heathenx for your screencast!

Do you know if it’s possible to create a “non-linear” path across the slides?

I mean, in the slide 2 (let’s say) I tried to offer the possibility to jump to the 4th or 7th slide. So I added a link like this: nameofmyfile.svg#4 or nameofmyfile.svg#7
But when I open the .svg file in Firefox and click on the links, I always go just to the next slide. No jump allowed.

Am I doing something wrong? Should I add something in the Link Properties dialog box? (BTW, I can’t even get working a simple external link… so i guess I’m missing something..)
Or maybe this feature is not supported by JessyInk yet?

Maybe should I tweak the .xml code?

Many thanks

By: LabVIEW

LabVIEW — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:39:53 +0000

Hello!

Great work of You and Hannes! That is very useful tool to make presentations in web. I miss only one – automatically transition of slides. Is there any possibility of doing this?

Many thanks, Eugen Graf

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:36:37 +0000

I have seen many of your screencasts before and all have been very informative but this one really blew my mind. The simplicity and portability of javascript embedded in an svg file is brilliant. Kudos to Hannes for developing this Inkscape extension and kudos to you for spreading the word about it!

By: Stan

Stan — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:56:58 +0000

heathenx, just wanted to say HUGE THANKS for your tireless efforts to inform with these tutorials. As you raise the bar with your tutorials you lower the barriers of entry for us newbs–awesome.

By: heathenx

heathenx — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:58:41 +0000

Hannes has just released 1.1.1 recently. Be sure to grab the update. There is a new summary tool.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:00:49 +0000

I just wanted to thank you for your brilliant presentation, your very clear english and you well balanced voice. It’s the first long screencast (I didn’t hear about your website before) I look from begining to very end!
Thanks for taking time to explain, I really appreciate that!

By: Robert Smol

Robert Smol — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:35:22 +0000

Hi,

just wanted to point out, when adding effects, each slide can start with its own numbering (from the screen case I was not sure whether I should continue to increment the numbers on another slide).

Otherwise, thanks, I am already doing my presentation in it today It would be nice if it got renames from JessyInk to Presentations .

By: heathenx

heathenx — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:46:43 +0000

@Walter
Check this out: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CSS_Support

By: Walther

Walther — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:40:55 +0000

Does inkscape support CSS? (i’m pretty sure SVG does.)
It would make it much easier to get a consistent style between your slides.
It would help a lot with flyers too.

By: heathenx

heathenx — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:24:15 +0000

@Morgon
Thanks for the link. I’ll check it out.

@eclipse
That’s a good point. There are ways around it, such as, picking a universal font (sans, helvetica) or perhaps go for the nuclear option and convert text to paths. Regardless, I don’t think I would do either of those things since embedding fonts can be done in SVG. http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/fonts.html Of course no one needs to worry about any of this if the presentation will be done on the same PC as it was created.

@Asaleh25
Thanks for the link. That looks like a pretty neat set too.

By: Asaleh25

Asaleh25 — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:01:46 +0000

If you liked that extension you should checkout this one:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~perni/iboardgameexts/

By: eclipse

eclipse — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:43:12 +0000

Thanks for your work.

I wanna ask you for embeded fonts.
Exemple: as you know when you create a website with a specific font, it’s possible that other people could see the result so different that you made it if fonts aren’t on other PC…
So what’s about Jessyink, without convert font ???

By: Morgan

Morgan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:31:57 +0000

The ‘i’ functionality is well thought out!

Unconnected with Inkscape, you can also try Beamer (http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/), a LaTeX class that allows you to create a PDF presentation. It is very powerful and you can really separate the form and the content. What I like with this class is you can add at the top of each slide a little summary to remind the plan of your presentation. Some examples are available at the bottom of the page.

By: heathenx

heathenx — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:58:13 +0000

@Susan
Calendars? Check out Episode 072. Go to the comments section and you’ll see a link to a blog post by Richard. There he explains how to get calendars to display in the terminal which can be saved out to bring into Inkscape.

If you are a Windows user then try Portable Ubuntu for Windows. I run it from time to time on my WinXP box at work and it’s very handy. It doesn’t harm any Windows files. It runs right on top of Windows and integrates so that you can use Windows and Ubuntu at the same time. With it you can use the terminal to get the cal command for calendar generation.

http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net