hovercraft

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This is a demo for Hovercraft! You can view it as a finished presentation at http://regebro.github.com/hovercraft/

It's also useful as an example, in which case it's supposed to be read as source code.

You can render this presentation to HTML with the command:

hovercraft hovercraft.rst outdir

And then view the outdir/index.html file to see how it turned out.

If you are seeing this text, and not reading this as source code, you are doing it wrong! It's going to be confusing and not very useful.

Use The Source, Luke! But first you probably want to read through the official documentation at https://hovercraft.readthedocs.org/

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The problem:

Making presentations is no fun!

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Welcome to the presenter console!

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GUI tools are inflexible

• It's hard to reorganize or import text
• Sluggy and memory hungry
• You get caught up in design early in the process.

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Here you have a view of the current slide, a preview of the next slide and your notes.

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Use reStructuredText!

• You can use your favorite text-editor!
• Many tools available: Landslide, S5
• Convenient (and powerful!)

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You also have a clock and a timer, so you know how much time you have left.

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But then there was Prezi

Sliding from left to right is no longer enough.

You need to be able to...

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If you click on the timer it restarts from zero. This is handy when you are rehearsing the presentation and need to make sure it fits in the time allocated.

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...pan...

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If you have more notes than fits in the console, you can scroll down, but more handily, you can scroll the text up by pressing space bar.

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...rotate...

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If there isn't more text to scroll up, space bar will go to the next slide. Therefore you, as a presenter, just press space everytime you run out of things to say!

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...and zoom!

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Zooming is cool. But one day it will grow old as well. What will we do then to make presentations interesting?

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But Prezi is a GUI

So we are back to square one.

(And it is closed source to boot)

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It's probably back to making bad jokes again.

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What about impress.js?

It's open source!

Supports pan, tilt and zoom!

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In three dimensions!

But...

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Wow! 3D! You didn't see that one coming, did you?

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It's HTML...

Not an friendly format to edit

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...and manual positioning

So inserting one slide means

repositioning all the following slides!

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The endless repositioning of slides is what prompted me to write Hovercraft! in the first place.

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Is there no solution?

Of course there is!

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What would be the point of this slide show if I didn't have a solution? Duh!

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Introducing Hovercraft!

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TADA!

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reStructuredText

plus

impress.js

plus

impressConsole.js

plus

positioning!

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Position slides

• Automatically!
• Absolutely!
• Relative to the previous slide!
• Along an SVG path!

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That SVG path support was a lot of work. And all I used it for was to position the slides in circles.

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Presenter console!

• A view of the current slide
• A view of the next slide
• Your notes
• A clock
• A timer

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You found the presenter console already!

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Hovercraft!

The merge of convenience and cool!

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A slogan: The ad-mans best friend!

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Hovercraft!

On Github:

https:/regebro/hovercraft

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Fork and contribute!