{"id":161,"date":"2011-09-05T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=161"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:21:17","slug":"nonlinear-presentations-moving-away-from-powerpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Nonlinear presentations moving away from PowerPoint"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to make a few presentations in the last few months and I desperately wanted to move from MS PowerPoint\/LibreOffice Presentations<\/strong>. I tried Keynote two years ago and when upgrading my OS I couldn’t find my iWork copy so I ended up with 20 presentations that were useless (vendor locked-in<\/strong>). But Keynote is very similar to PP anyway. I wanted something different. And about a year ago I saw Prezi<\/strong> with it’s large plain area on which presentation is placed and then traveled about, zoomed in and out etc. I really like the idea, but everything is done and saved in Flash<\/strong> and as such not really reusable. <\/p>\n

I did some research and found a handful of nice solutions for creating nonlinear presentations<\/strong> (I’ll list all tools, the above mentioned included):<\/p>\n

Prezi<\/strong> – a Flash based zoomable area http:\/\/prezi.com\/<\/a>
Ahead<\/strong> – very similar to Prezi and Flash based http:\/\/ahead.com\/<\/a>
Sozi<\/strong> – an Inkscape extension that creates Prezi like presentation in SVG http:\/\/sozi.baierouge.fr\/wiki\/Sozi<\/a>
Dizzy.js<\/strong> – a JavaScript library for creating nonlinear presentation http:\/\/dizzy.metafnord.org\/<\/a>
Slidy <\/strong>– although linear by nature, it is using open standards like HTML and CSS http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Talks\/Tools\/Slidy2<\/a>
JessyInk<\/strong> – another Inkscape extention http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/jessyink\/<\/a><\/p>\n

As said, I did not like the Flash part of the first two. And I really liked that the last four use open formats and can be opened in almost every modern browser (a very bold statement!). I couldn’t get Dizzy.js to work in a decent time. JessyInk is still kind of linear, as is Slidy. So I ended up with Sozi. I very much liked to work in Inkscape and creating content was not hard. Then I only needed to define the sequence of how the content will be shown and I was done. Presentations work in my FF :).<\/p>\n

Here’s an example.<\/p>\n

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