Sozi-style pathing and presentation

[linuslabo]

It would be great to develop pathing and presentation like in Sozi (http://sozi.baierouge.fr) : an Inkscape extension (to emulate prezi.com) which creates presentation as pure svg files. The user can display the presentation on browsers (even offline) and control it using the mouse and keyboard.

in the next few days I'll check the feasibility and, if possible, start to write down something.
Any advice, help or idea will be appreciated :]

[Moerphy]

I think it should even be possible to use the code from the editor and embed it in an SVG, with only few changes maybe. Having the same code for animation at two different locations wouldn't be too great imho.
The only issue there would be that we would have a lot of dependency code to pull in the SVG too (jQuery + jQuery.SVG). But I want to get rid of jQuery.SVG anyway, so that might work.. (:

[linuslabo]

I particularly like the use of (invisible) rectangles, and options for the animation.
In the old presenting module text and images were not displayed accurately: some letters or pieces of the images didn't fit the visible area.

[Moerphy]

It actually is already possible to to the same in the current editor (using big, transparent frames as overlays), although it's not really userfriendly.
I designed the presentation mode so that everything that is put on the canvas will keep it's size (even if it's displayed way smaller than it could). When a transformation (e.g. with the zebra) is applied to that element it will get transformed back to it's original size in presentation mode.
What we really need is a tool that works similiar to the frame tool, but only creates pre-transformed, transparent frames with 100% width and height. That way users could easily draw frames around their content and in the presentation it would scale up accordingly.
[edit] But that frame-thingy should be it's own issue.. I'm a little in a hurry right now, gonna create one later (: