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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE presentation SYSTEM "../pythonpoint.dtd">
<presentation filename="pythonpoint.pdf" pageDuration="3">
<stylesheet module="standard" function="getParagraphStyles"/>
<title>PythonPoint Demonstration</title>
<author>Andy Robinson</author>
<subject>Reportlab Sample Applications</subject>
<section name="Main">
<!-- any graphics in the section go on all its pages as a backdrop -->
<rectangle height="555" fill="ReportLabBlue" x="20" width="96" y="20"/>
<!--fixedimage height="64" filename="leftlogo.gif" x="20" width="96" y="510"/-->
<customshape module="customshapes" class="Logo" initargs="(20,510,96,64)"/>
<!--infostring size="14" align="right" x="800" y="36">
»%(title)s, page %(page)s«
</infostring-->
<!-- Now for the slides -->
<slide title="Introduction" id="Slide001" effectname="Wipe">
<frame height="468" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading1">
Welcome to PythonPoint
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
...a library for creating presentation slides.
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
<i>
PythonPoint
</i>
lets you create attractive and consistent presentation slides
on any platform. It is a demo app built on top of the PDFgen PDF library
and the PLATYPUS Page Layout library. Essentially, it converts slides
in an XML format to PDF.
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
It can be used right now to create slide shows, but will
undoubtedly change and evolve. Read on for a tutorial...
</para>
</frame>
<notes>
<para>
Smile and look them in the eye!
</para>
</notes>
</slide>
<slide title="Part 1" id="Part1" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0">
<frame height="468" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para/>
<para/>
<para/>
<para style="Heading1">
Part 1 – Feature Overview
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="XML Notation" id="Slide002" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="468" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading1">
XML Notation
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
You create slides in a text editor with a basic
XML syntax looking like this:
</para>
<prefmt style="Code"><![CDATA[
<frame x="160" y="72" width="600" height="468"
leftmargin="36" rightmargin="36">
<para style='Heading1'>
Welcome to PythonPoint
</para>
<para style='BodyText'>
...a library for creating presentation slides.
</para>
</frame> ]]></prefmt>
<para style="BodyText">
Pythonpoint then converts these into slides. Just enter
"pythonpoint.py myfile.xml" to create a PDF document
(usually called "myfile.pdf", but you specify that in the XML).
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Page Layout" id="Slide003" effectname="Box" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="468" border="true" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading1">
Page Layout Model
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
The Page Layout model comes from PLATYPUS (Page Layout and Typography Using Scripts),
a key component of the toolkit. This covers concepts such as:
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Reusable 'Drawable Objects'
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Frames into which objects flow (like this one, around which we have drawn a border)
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Style Sheets for text, table cells, line styles etc.
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Wrapping, page breaking an document management logic
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
Everything is open and extensible. I hope a library of
reusable objects such as charts and diagrams will grow up.
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Reuse" id="Slide004" effectname="Wipe" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="468" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading1">
Reuse and Consistency – Sections
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
You can create a 'section' spanning some or all tags in the presentation
and place graphics on this. The blue border and title come from the
section. Here's how we did the border:
</para>
<prefmt style="Code"><![CDATA[
<presentation filename='pythonpoint.pdf'>
<section name = 'Main'>
<!-- any graphics in the section go on all its pages as a backdrop -->
<rectangle x="20" y="510" width="800" height="65" fill="(0,0,1)"/>
<rectangle x="20" y="20" width="65" height="555" fill="(0,0,1)"/>
...all slides go here...
</section>
</presentation>
]]></prefmt>
<para style="BodyText">
Thus you can re-brand an entire presentation for
a new audience in seconds.
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Styles" id="Slide005" effectname="Dissolve" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="468" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading1">
Style Sheets
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
Paragraph styles are defined externally. You may specify a filename
from which to load a stylesheet with the stylesheet tag.
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
Thus you can have different sizes and formats by switching
stylesheets, or colour and black-and-white options.
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
When they are added, tables will be driven by line and cell
styles in a similar way.
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Special Effects" id="Slide006" effectname="Dissolve" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="468" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading1">
Special Effects
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
Acrobat Reader supports tags to define page transition effects.
If you are reading this on screen, you should have seen a selection
of these:
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Split
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Blinds
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Box
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Wipe
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Dissolve
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Glitter
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
Each has a range of options to fine-tune.
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
When they are added, tables will be driven by line and cell
styles in a similar way.
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Outlines and Hyperlinks" id="Slide007" effectname="Wipe" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="468" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading1">
Outlines and Hyperlinks
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
By default, we generate an outline view in the left pane to
help you navigate. Hyperlinks within documents are also
possible.
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
As far as we know, this is the first PDF library to expose
these features.
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Basic Shapes" id="Slide008" effectname="Wipe" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="468" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading1">
Basic Shapes
</para>
<para>
Here are some of the basic shapes available for decorating pages...
</para>
</frame>
<rectangle height="50" fill="(0,1,1)" x="200" width="100" y="300"/>
<roundrect height="50" x="350" y="300" radius="15" fill="(0,1,1)" width="100"/>
<line y1="300" y2="350" x1="500" x2="600"/>
<ellipse fill="(0,1,1)" y1="300" y2="350" x1="650" x2="750"/>
<polygon points="(200,200),(300,200),(350,180),(250,150)" fill="(0,1,1)"/>
<string size="14" color="(1,0,0)" align="center" x="500" y="200">
This is a\nmulti-line string\nplaced directly on the page.\n\nIt can be left-aligned,\ncentred,\nor right-aligned.
</string>
<customshape module="customshapes" class="Jigsaw" initargs="(700,200,1)"/>
</slide>
<slide title="Tables" id="Slide008a" effectname="Glitter" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="468" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading1">
Tables
</para>
<para>
The Table tag lets you paste in bulk data and format it attractively:
</para>
<spacer height="24"/>
<table heights="(28,28,28,28,28)" style="table1" widths="(144,72,72,72,108)">
Division,Jan,Feb,Mar,Q1 Total
North,100,115,120,335
South,215,145,180,540
East,75,90,135,300
West,100,120,115,335
</table>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Future Features" id="Slide009" effectname="Glitter" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="468" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading1">
Features Coming Soon
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
This is the first version that runs. A lot can now be added fairly easily:
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Preprocessor to let you enter paragraphs and
bullets as one block of text, with less tag typing!
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
PIDDLE drawings
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
PINGO drawings – 'Object Graphics' tags with grouping and coordinate transformations
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Speaker notes and a mode to print them
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Tools to archive slides in a database and build presentations to order
</para>
<para style="Italic">
...what else can YOU think of?
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Part 2" id="Part2" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="0">
<frame height="468" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para/>
<para/>
<para/>
<para style="Heading1">
Part 2 – Reference
</para>
<para/>
<para style="Centered">
This section covers all command line options
and tags currently in use.
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Command Line Options" id="Slide200" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Command Line Options
</para>
<para>
Usage (NT, or executable Unix script):
</para>
<para>
<i>
pythonpoint.py [/notes] myslides.xml
</i>
</para>
<para>
or (Win9x or non-executable script)
</para>
<para>
<i>
python pythonpoint.py [/notes] myslides.xml
</i>
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
Notes:
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
The resulting PDF file has the same
name as the input file.
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
The Speaker Notes mode prints a shrunken canvas with
room for notes around the edge. To create notes, make
an extra frame off the page. See the source of
Pythonpoint.xml slide 001 for an example.
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: Presentation" id="Slide201" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "presentation"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
This is the outermost tag in an XML file and is always required.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
filename (required)
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
section, stylesheet, slides
</para>
<para/>
<para style="Italic">
To Do:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Support for page sizes, opening modes
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: Stylesheet" id="Slide202" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "stylesheet"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
This defines an external style sheet full of paragraph styles.
For now, these are Python modules conforming to a common interface,
and examples are given. If not declared, a default style sheet is
used. You are strongly advised to define your own style sheet,
as the built-in one will change a few more times.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
path, module, function
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Presentation, Section
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
nothing
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Example
</para>
<prefmt style="Code"><![CDATA[
<stylesheet module="modern" function="getParagraphStyles"/>
]]></prefmt>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: Section" id="Slide203" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "section"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
A Section spans across a number of slides and can apply an
overall background to them. Place graphics directly within
the section tag, either before or after slides. This lets
you re-brand a presentation very quickly. Documents
may contain multiple sections; nesting of sections is
not (yet) permitted.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
name (required, but not used yet)
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Presentation
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
all graphic shapes; slides
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: Slide" id="Slide204" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "slide"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
Defines a single slide. The presentation effects are defined
in the PDF reference; best to just try the combinations.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes (with defaults):
</para>
<para style="Indent">
id (required)
</para>
<para style="Indent">
title (required)
</para>
<para style="Indent">
effectname: one of Split, Blinds, Box, Wipe, Dissolve, Glitter
</para>
<para style="Indent">
effectdirection: '0','90','180' or '270'
</para>
<para style="Indent">
effectdimension: 'H' or 'V' (Horiz./Vert.)
</para>
<para style="Indent">
effectmotion: 'I' for inwards or 'O' for outwards
</para>
<para style="Indent">
effectduration: time in seconds
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Presentation
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
all graphic shapes; frames
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: Frame" id="Slide205" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "frame"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
Defines a frame on the page which can hold content. You may have
as many frames as you like, to allow multi-column text or flow
around pictures.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
x, y, width, height (all required): in points
</para>
<para style="Indent">
leftmargin, rightmargin, topmargin, bottommargin
(optional, default to zero) – define the 'inner rectangle' within
which content flows
</para>
<para style="Indent">
border (defaults to 'false'): whether to show
a frame border – useful when designing pages.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Slide
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
all 'flowable objects' – paragraphs, images
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Flowable Objects" id="Slide206" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag family – "Flowable Objects"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
Flowable Objects currently include Paragraphs, Preformatted text
(used for code printing, where the line breaks and spaces matter)
and inline Images. More will be added in future.
They negotiate with their containing frame about height and
width; paragraphs do what you would expect, while images are centred.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Slide
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
The three instances so far contain nothing.
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: para" id="Slide207" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="2">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "para" – Paragraphs
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
Paragraphs are used for wrapping text. They are very simple
– they have a style attribute,
and the stylesheet defines most attributes externally.
Currently we use a hack to handle 'bullets', which may be in
a different font (such as 'ZapfDingbats, specified in style)
and offset to the left. These are used
for bullets, numbering and definition lists
This will vanish as soon as one can
switch fonts in mid-paragraph (due mid April).
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
style (defaults to 'Normal') –
reference to stylesheet
</para>
<para style="Indent">
bullettext –
text for the optional 'bullet' section. To be deprecated.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Frame
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Their text
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: prefmt" id="Slide207" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="2">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "prefmt"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
This is used for printing code, or other text which contains
line breaks.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
style (defaults to 'Normal') –
reference to stylesheet
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Frame
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
The text to be displayed
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: image" id="Slide208" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="2">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "image" – flowing images
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
This is used for an image to be displayed inline within
the frame. It will be drawn at a scale of 1 pixel to
1 point, and centred in the frame.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
filename (required)
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Frame
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Nothing
</para>
<para style="Italic">
To do
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Rename it 'flowing image'? Control
over alignment and size if needed. Image caching.
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: table" id="Slide208a" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="2">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "table" – tables
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
This lets you draw tables with a wide variety of formatting
options.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
<b>
widths
</b>
(optional) in points (auto-sizes if not given)
</para>
<para style="Indent">
<b>
heights
</b>
(optional) in points (auto-sizes if not given)
</para>
<para style="Indent">
<b>
style
</b>
(optional) – name of a ReportLab
tablestyle defined in the stylesheet.
</para>
<para style="Indent">
<b>
colDelim
</b>
(optional) – the column
delimiter string for bulk data; defaults to a comma.
</para>
<para style="Indent">
<b>
rowDelim
</b>
(optional) – the line
delimiter string for bulk data; defaults to a carriage
return.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Frame
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Bulk data, with the row and column delimiters
specified
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Drawable Objects" id="Slide209" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="1">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag family – "Drawable Objects"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
These are objects which know how to draw themselves directly on
the page (or section template). Use them for designing the backdrop,
and for custom graphics.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Slide, Section
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Varies.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
To Do:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Will include the full PINGO object
model – a subset of SVG – allowing any vector graphics
at all.
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: FixedImage" id="Slide210" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="2">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "fixedimage"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
This is an image draw directly at a fixed position –
for example, the logo at top left of the page.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
filename: required
</para>
<para style="Indent">
x, y: required
</para>
<para style="Indent">
width, height: optional, stretches image
to fit box if present.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Slide, Section
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Nothing
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: Rectangle" id="Slide211" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="2">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "rectangle"
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
x, y, width, height: required
</para>
<para style="Indent">
fill, stroke: either 'None', or an
(r,g,b) tuple.
</para>
<para style="Indent">
linewidth: defaults to 0 (hairline)
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Slide, Section
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Nothing
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: RoundRect" id="Slide212" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="2">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "roundrect"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
This is exactly like Rectangle,
but with an extra 'radius' attribute defining the corner
radius in points – default is 6 points.
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: Ellipse" id="Slide213" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="2">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "ellipse"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
Draws an ellipse, defined by its
bounding box. Note that it can
create circles if height and width are equal.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
x1, y1, x2, y2: required
</para>
<para style="Indent">
fill, stroke: either 'None', or an
(r,g,b) tuple.
</para>
<para style="Indent">
linewidth: defaults to 0 (hairline)
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Slide, Section
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Nothing
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: Polygon" id="Slide214" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="2">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "polygon"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
Draws a polygon from a list
of points you provide.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
points: list such as "(0,0),(50,0),(25,25)"
</para>
<para style="Indent">
fill, stroke: either 'None', or an
(r,g,b) tuple.
</para>
<para style="Indent">
linewidth: defaults to 0 (hairline)
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Slide, Section
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Nothing
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: Line" id="Slide215" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="2">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "line"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
Draws a line.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
x1, y1, x2, y2
</para>
<para style="Indent">
stroke: either 'None', or an
(r,g,b) tuple.
</para>
<para style="Indent">
width: defaults to 0 (hairline)
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Slide, Section
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Nothing
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: String" id="Slide215" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="2">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "string"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
This places strings directly on the page. They may have
embedded newlines (use a '\n' in the XML), in which
case multi-line strings are printed. Left, right
and centre alignment are allowed.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
x, y: required
</para>
<para style="Indent">
color: RGB colour tuple such as '(0,1,0)'
</para>
<para style="Indent">
font: default is 'Times-Roman'
</para>
<para style="Indent">
size: default 12
</para>
<para style="Indent">
align: default 'left', allows
also 'right' or 'center'
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Slide, Section
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
The text of the string
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="Tag: CustomShape" id="Slide216" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0" outlinelevel="2">
<frame height="510" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading2">
Tag "customshape"
</para>
<para style="BodyText">
This looks in a specified Python module for a
'drawable object' you write, and initialises
it with arguments you provide before drawing.
This must provide a 'self.drawOn(canvas)' method.
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Attributes:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
path: where to look; searches Python path
if None
</para>
<para style="Indent">
module: module name
</para>
<para style="Indent">
class: class name to create
</para>
<para style="Indent">
initargs: tuple of arguments with which
to initialize the class.
</para>
<para style="Indent">
align: default 'left', allows
also 'right' or 'center'
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Contained By:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Slide, Section
</para>
<para style="Italic">
Can Contain:
</para>
<para style="Indent">
Nothing
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
<slide title="To Do" id="Part3" effectname="Blinds" effectdirection="0">
<frame height="468" x="120" y="72" rightmargin="36" width="700" leftmargin="36">
<para style="Heading1">
Part 3 – To Do
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Lots of testing
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Text preprocessor to let you input text, styles and images
in something easier to type
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Support for Pingo (http://pingo.sourceforge.net/) drawings using
the Scalable Vector Graphics imaging model
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Proper caching of flowing images
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Basic Tables and Charts
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Use new XML parsers as wel as xmllib
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Slide indexing and database search tools
</para>
<para style="Bullet">
Speaker Notes mode
</para>
<para>
Naturally, help is extremely welcome :-)
</para>
</frame>
</slide>
</section>
</presentation>
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