UKY script--draft #1 ... Comments from Nestor

[John A. Greenfield]

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Tom Coffin wrote:

> At 11:27 AM 8/17/99 -0500, Robert Olson wrote:
>    >
>    >>
>    >>But it does allow the remote  user complete screen control
>    >>independent of platform of the viewer and presenter. I'm sure everyone
>    >>knows about this, but thought I would add my 2 cents.
>    >
>    >
>    >I've actually got some technical solutions to this in mind, that work if 
>    >the original presentation is in ppt. One can make powerpoint export a
> slide 
>    >as a bitmap/jpeg at an arbitrary resolution, so given a presentation, one 
>    >could export the whole thing as a series of images (including the 
>    >transitions, I think). Then all we'd need is a simple viewer client that 
>    >would show the images, and accept either local input for a master, or 
>    >remote slide-change events for a client. This could be done via a shared 
>    >web browser as well.
>    >
>    >Just a SMOP ...
>    >
>    >(simple matter of programming)
>    >
>    >--bob
>    >
>    >
> 
> That's what Tango does!
> 
>

Yes, Unfortuneately it also takes over the entire display, which is a
major problem given the way we are doing display.
 

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