Re: Advantage of MORE's presentation tools?

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Posted by formido
2002-03-10 20:05:47

OK, after reading your post and thinking some more, I think it’s clear that MORE is the best way to conceptualize and organize the presentation. So then the question: Deliver the slides from MORE directly, or export to some other delivery vehicle such as PowerPoint or QuickTime? My thoughts on this right now are that it is a big advantage of MORE that you can easily go up and down the hierarchy during the presentation. On the other hand, in PowerPoint or QuickTime you can spice up the slides, give them color, insert pictures in them. Which is the bigger advantage? Are there any other pros and cons for either that I don’t know about?

How about this? PowerPoint allows hyperlinks from one slide to another so that you can present a slide out of order. What if I wrote an AppleScript [1] which translated a MORE slide show into a PowerPoint presentation and created links between the slides such that you could traverse the presentation with the intuitiveness of MORE? Then you’d have the mechanical advantage MORE offers a presenter _and_ the conceptualizing advantage.

[1] Although MORE is not AppleScriptable and, essentially, neither is PowerPoint, this should still be possible. For MORE I could use PreFab Player to coerce it into responsiveness, and for PowerPoint I could use its built-in macro language, VBA. However, it might very well be a big pain-in-the-ass, so right now I’m just thinking out loud.

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