Three features I'd like to see in MagicPoint, based on my experience actually using it at a conference last week: 1. Many projectors cut off some part of the picture. It would be nice to be able to specify a percentage of each edge upon which text and graphics are not displayed. (It would be nice if it still displayed the background image, however, for a consistent look.) A variable frame would help, especially with odd projectors (and there are a lot of odd projectors!) 2. It would be nice to define "Chapters" in a presentation, groups of related slides such that it would be possible to skip to the beginning of the next chapter (or back to the last one, perhaps). This way, if it turns out that you covered a subject in too much depth, you can go on to the next subject without problems and without lots of extra clicks. Skipping through half a dozen slides is kinda unprofessional. ;-) 3. If we're not going to have text automagically resizable to fit on a given resolution, it would be nice to have a --check option which could specify resolution and output format, and inform the user of any overflows. This would save much time in preparing presentations. The first of these is critical, IMHO, given the spotty projectors I've run across. The second of these would help people (me, at least) give professional looking presentations when we miscalculate times. The third is a sort of blue-sky feature, eminently useful but probably quite difficult to implement. I'm not a programmer, but I'm happy to help in any way I can. Jon Lasser -- Fear leads to anger. Jon Lasser http://www.tux.org/~lasser/ Anger leads to hate. Work: jon@umbc.edu 410-455-3708 Hate leads to suffering. Home: jon@lasser.org 410-383-7962 Suffering leads to book deals. -- Yoda, I think
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