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Sozi 15 preview - zooming presentation editor on Ubuntu 15.04 linux
http://sozi.baierouge.fr/
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByRUreHgekjMemhONHd4TGY4V3M&usp=sharing

Unlike in most presentation applications, a Sozi document is not organised as a slideshow, but rather as a poster where the content of your presentation can be freely laid out. Playing such a presentation consists in a series of translations, zooms and rotations that allow to focus on the elements you want to show.

Sozi is based on open standards. It is free software distributed according to the terms of the MIT license or GPL 3.0.

The editor for Sozi 15 has been developed with the following concerns:

It is no longer an Inkscape extension, and is not tied to a specific SVG editor.
Its user interface includes a preview of the presentation rather than only a form.
For a given frame, you can select the visible area in each layer without drawing rectangles.
It does not modify the original SVG document but saves the presentation in a separate file.
It is easier to install in Windows and OS X.
It is based on web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, SVG).
A new user interface

Frames are created and modified using three panes:

The timeline pane (bottom) features a grid where each row represents a layer and each column represents a frame. Select layers and frames using the mouse. Use the Shift and Control keys for multiple selections.
The preview pane (top left) contains a view of the current frame. Use the mouse to modify the geometry of the selected layers in the selected frame. Drag using the left button, zoom using the wheel, rotate using the wheel and the Shift key.
The properties pane (top right) contains a form where you can modify various properties of frames and transitions.
It is no longer required to draw rectangles to delimit frames but it can help in some cases. Tutorials on this topic will be published soon.

There is no Save button. The editor saves the current document automatically, each time the window loses focus, and before quitting. If you modify the SVG document while Sozi is running, it will be reloaded automatically when Sozi gets the focus again.

A new file format

If you have used earlier versions of Sozi, you will notice that the new editor stores the presentation in a new format. For instance, if your original SVG document is my_presentation.svg, Sozi 14 will create two files:

my_presentation.sozi.json stores the presentation data. It is used internally by the editor.
my_presentation.sozi.html is the resulting Sozi presentation. Open it in a web browser to play it.
Technically, the HTML file contains a copy of your SVG document, a copy of the presentation data, and the Sozi player software. It is a standalone document: if you want to share a presentation, you do not need to give the SVG and JSON files.