Re: [vmeet] Suggestion

[Paul Kyzivat <[e-mail]>]

On 4/9/16 2:46 PM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote:
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>> On Apr 8, 2016, at 1:57 PM, Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr) <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> We could also have a pre-made chair deck with the meeting title, date, time, chair names slide, a note well, and a slide with the agenda as loaded into the tools site.  All of the stuff that every chair has to do before every meeting should be automatable.  I know everyone likes things a little different, so you don't *have* to use the deck if you don't want to.
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> Something I noticed (it's probably been announced, but I managed to miss it) is the when I upload a pptx, it is very quickly converted to pdf. That's a good thing, but presents an issue. Personally, I use powerpoint builds (adding content to a slide as if there was a subsequent slide with a little more content) when I give a talk, and pdf doesn't do that. The net effect is that I'm thinking about a way of explaining something and in effect drawing on the whiteboard as the slide progresses, and pdf reduces that to the least common denominator.
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> So if I were expecting, as a presenter, to use a build, and the display deck magically became pdf, I don't think I would feel that I had achieved what I wanted to achieve.
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> So I would want it to be really easy to override this.

I've also noticed that.

ISTM that the PPT-to-PDF converter ought to deal with that. It could 
make a separate page for each step of the build. (Still wouldn't show 
the fades, but seems like it would still be better than current situation.)

(BTW, this brands you as a PPT person - not a good thing in this crowd.)

	Thanks,
	Paul