Our aim is to make the work of creating dynamic lecture material more time efficient and accessible to instructors, and flexible for students.Īs an effective information transmitting way, chart is widely used to represent scientific statistics datum in books, research papers, newspapers etc. Following the ethos of separating presentation from content, slideDeck.js fits into the lecture design workflow automating the generation of presentation slides. slideDeck.js is designed to be flexible for instructors to update content, modify the look and feel of the presentation, and transfer the slide deck between colleagues teaching the course. With accessible GUI, mobile responsive design, customizable and interactive content, slideDeck.js provides an accessible learning platform for students to explore lecture material in a way that enhances their learning. Different slide types include bullet points, images, and interactive coding examples. We describe a system called slideDeck.js that augments the standard model and generates online slide decks using a minimal markup language. Granted I can not use this tool with more complex documents, but for more simple PDF files this tool is magic.Creating, disseminating, and maintaining lecture slides has long been the standard model of providing students with presentation cues and lecture notes.

Some times I get requests to alter PDF documents and now, thanks to Sun and OpenOffice, I can take care of those requests. If you want to save the document in one of the supported OpenOffice Draw formats you can use Save As. When you go to save your document, if you want to save the document as a PDF you have to use the Export to PDF and not Save As. You can convert embedded images into different types of objects (Polygons, Contour, 3D, 3D Rotation File, or Metafile). If you right click an image you will see a menu that includes entries for various arrangments of the image, cropping, and converting. To edit a text element you simply double click the element to make your edits. In this image you can see a text element ready for editing. With your document opened in this application you will be able to edit the various elements of the document.įigure 2 shows a PDF document (that was actually exported from a presentation document) opened in Draw (with the help of the Sun PDF Import Extension).

When you open up a PDF document OpenOffice will open the document in OpenOffice Draw.

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