Re: CMS for presentation

"Gregor J. Rothfuss" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.cms-forum.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
>> I was wondering if I can use some sort of a CMS and input all these
>> things as text and then depending on Client or context, just generate a
>> different PPT. Please note that this is different from using a different
>> powerpoint template. Its like a dynamic JSP with placeholders for
>> different items, just that it will be a PPT and not JSP. Has anyone
>> tried this sort of a thing before? Any ideas?
> 
> 
> I would look away from Powerpoint and think about PDF.
> The Reader has a full screen mode that is great for presentations.
> The PDF format makes it easy to distribute the content and print out if 
> needed.

agreed. apache forrest and apache lenya would be two candidates to do 
this, with forrest being more bare-bones multiformat publishing, and 
lenya being a more complete, but also more difficult to learn, solution.

http://forrest.apache.org
http://lenya.apache.org

-gregor
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