Re: Diagram Linking

[Ron Wilson <wilsonronl gmail com>]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 8:00 AM,  <dia-list-request gnome org> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:05:09 +0200
> From: Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>
> To: dia-list gnome org
>
> At 15.06.2011 19:55, Vikram Subramanian wrote:
> > I think that is really a cool feature. In fact that will improve the
> > presentation features of dia.
> What is the "presentation feature" of Dia ...
> > Ideally, we have to insert jpegs, pngs (both are lossy)
> [ No PNG are _not_ lossy. That's the reason it is choosen to save the
> inline data. See: http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/lib/prop_pixbuf.c#n157 ]
> > into presentations and use ppt or equivalent.
> ... and where is the connection to Microsoft's proprietary Powerpoint
> format (ppt) ?

I assume he's just describing how he currently makes presentations.

> > With this feature in order to drill down into a component, you actually
> > literally drill into (double click) the boxes (aka components, etc.)
> This is not how it is implemented. You will have to use the context menu
> item "Follow link".

For presentations, I export to SVG, then use a Perl script to take a
list of diagrams and insert navigation links. Then any web browser
that supports SVG can be used as the presentation viewer.

If the inter-diagram links are either preserved or converted during
SVG export, that would enhance the navigation capabilities of the
presentation.