S5 is a great little piece of software. It is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The slide show is one simple HTML file and with the different style sheets provided, one has the slideshow, the printer-friendly and the online-friendly versions. Check out the S5 introduction slideshow and don’t forget to do a print preview.

Changing the format requires some CSS knowledge, and unfortunately it’s not documented. I found a page in German that gives some explanations.

Now I thought that a good way to create the slideshow was to use FreeMind, which I wrote earlier about.

So I wrote a little Perl script that takes a FreeMind .mm file (which is a very simple XML) and generates a S5 slideshow file. First level nodes make slides, and leafs become bullets.

Usage is simple (-h for help):

perl freemind2s5.pl < freemind.mm > slideshow.html


FreeMind and S5 make a good pair. FreeMind is great for brainstorming and once your ideas are clear and clean, they can right away be put in a presentation and shared.

Let me know if you find this useful.

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