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WebSlider: Slide Presentations in WWW

German Fernandez CN/DCI & CIEMAT and Miguel Marquina CN/DCI

WebSlider is an application layer developed by the User Migration Task Force, aimed at offering Slide Presentations under WWW .

There are two main modes of operation; the first takes as input multi-page PostScript files, which are then segmented into single pages by means of Webify version 1, written by Steve Ward. The main drawback of Webify is the need to use a template to define the layout of the HTML pages. With WebSlider , a standard template is generated on the fly, but it keeps some flexibility by means of command-line options.

The layout has been modified to include iconic buttons to move around, and clicking on the image extracts it to the external viewer.

A second mode of operation, unavailable in Webify , is supported by WebSlider : it allows merging of collections of files in different formats (ASCII, PostScript, HTML, GIF) into indexed arrays of HTML pages.

With option -merge, it takes as input a configuration file in which the title, format (ASCII, PostScript, GIF or HTML) and file containing each page of the presentation are defined and generates the HTML pages from those files.

Further documentation on WebSlider can be found in

http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/umtf/webslider.html



Michel Goossens
CN Division
Tel. 3363
Tue Nov 28 18:14:41 MET 1995