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[Don Brutzman]

Didier Courtaud wrote:
> Hi Don
> 
> I have just downloaded the slides corresponding to the Chapter 1 of your book
> ( http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter01-TechnicalOverview.odp )
> in Open Document Format.
> 
> - Firefox does not recognize the MIME type of the file and force me to record the file.
>   ( that is not a great problem (:) )

I don't think there is a browser plugin yet from openoffice.org though the
tool itself is free.

I have also posted .pdf versions, which are easy for most people.
n.b. that first half of each .pdf slides sets are landscape-mode slides,
the second half are portrait-mode slides + notes.

Also added .zip for all chapters at once, making download easier

	http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets
	http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthorsSlidesets.pdf.zip
	http://x3dgraphics.com/slidesets/X3dForWebAuthorsSlidesets.odp.zip

> - But when I look at the slides in Open Office, most of the images ( screenshots ) are unavailable
>   because their URL point to a local file location ( ie file://Chapter1.... )

Thank you for pointing out this problem.  I have since figured out
how to do the images properly and the problem should be solved.
Please check when convenient so that my laptop isn't fooling me again.

> Once again, thanks to put all this stuff online !
> 
> Didier Courtaud

You are of course welcome, further comments are gratefully received.

Please be advised there are more resources now:

- First chapter slideset split into "Getting Started" as chapter 0,
	enabling quicker introduction and then jumping to authoring
	in chapter 2
- slidesets provided up through Chapter 5, Appearance Materials Textures
	(something like 340 slides for 6 slidesets, many notes pages also)

I am currently teaching the course with the new slides.  Goal for each
slideset is around a week's worth of classes (4-5 hours).

There is also a new capability in X3D-Edit:  embedded chat.  Manual install
required, directions at
	https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit
	https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/XmppChatCollaborationModule.html

Work in progress:
- putting chat setup in the autoinstaller so that manual plugin addition
	is no longer required
- allowing multiple chat participants to share editing of a single file -
	this is a way-cool feature in Netbeans that we are carefully adding
- ongoing bugfixes, roughly weekly autoupdates

enjoy, aloha

all the best, Don
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