pinpoint 0.1.2 - Sushi Monday

[Øyvind Kolås <pippin gimp org>]

pinpoint 0.1.2 - 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 release of pinpoint comes shortly after last weeks initial release, along
with the last item on the list (ahem) there is some more regular improvements
and fixes as well.

  • New background scaling type 'stretch'
  • Handle relative paths fully
  • Added '.mkv' to list of video extensions
  • Only treat # at start of line as comments
  • Improve documentation
  • Distribute ClutterScript based transitions in tarball
    (without it pinpoint didnt work)


You can download the pinpoint 0.1.2 distribution tarball from

 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pinpoint/0.1/pinpoint-0.1.2.tar.gz

The sha1sum of this archive is:

  3c22b446234fc8cd307aa6829303ace13e6a7f76  pinpoint-0.1.2.tar.gz

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

  git clone git://git.gnome.org/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 pinpoint release was possible due to contributions from:
  Damien Lespiau, Øyvind Kolås, Jussi Kukkonen and Chris Lord

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Øyvind Kolås @ Intel Open Source Technology Centre - London