pinpoint 0.1.0

[Øyvind Kolås <pippin gimp org>]

pinpoint - a tool for making hackers do excellent presentations
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Pinpoint a simple presentation tool that hopes to avoid audience death by
bullet point and instead encourage presentations containing beautiful images
and small amounts of concise text in slides.

Pinpoints main web-presence is a page in the GNOME wiki:

  http://live.gnome.org/Pinpoint

This is the first release of pinpoint, with the following features:

  • Text position
  • Styling of font, text-color, contrast background and text positioning for
    global default and per slide overrides.
  • Image backgrounds
  • Video backgrounds
  • Pango markup inside slides
  • Transitions, extendable through json
  • PDF export
  • Embedding commands to run for demos in slides, with editable commandline
    during presentation.
  • Monitoring of source file with live updates of changed slide for authoring


The following illustrates what a pinpoint presentation looks like, for a more
exhaustive overview of pinpoints features see the included sample presentation.

______________[example pinpoint presentation]_______________________
# the 0th "slide" provides default styling for the presentation
[bottom]           # position of text
[slide-bg.jpg]     # default slide background
--- [black] [center] # override background and text position

A presentation

--------- # lines starting with hyphens separate slides

The format is meant to be <u>simple</u>

--- [ammo.jpg]  # override background

• Bullet point lists through unicode
• Evil, but sometimes needed
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You can download the pinpoint 0.1.2 release from

  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pinpoint/0.1/pinpoint-0.1.0.tar.bz2

The sha1sum of this archive is:

  4b56dfa36662fb8034e61cf12d1d006775e0a3a3  pinpoint-0.1.0.tar.bz2

You can clone the pinpoint git repository with the following command, or
other equivalent commands for GNOME git repositories.

  git clone http://git.gnome.org/browse/pinpoint

Dependencies:

  Clutter 1.4 or newer
  GdkPixbuf 2.0 or newer
  GIO 2.0 or newer
  cairo-pdf 1.9.12 or newer and pangocairo (for optional PDF export)
  ClutterGst 1.3 or newer (for optional live videos as slide backgrounds)
  Dax 0.2 or newer (for experimental SVG slide background support)

This release of pinpoint has been realized through contributions from:
  Øyvind Kolås, Damien Lespiau, Emmanuele Bassi,
  Neil Roberts, Nick Richards and Daniel G. Siegel.