Handouts - What would be useful ?

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edited November 2024 in English Forum

What would be useful for Handouts in Logos 4 ?

Knowing digital books are selling more than dead tree versions along with many mobile device purchases, wonder about digital handout desires ?  If digital, wonder about embedding (or linking) video clips ?

 

Follow-up to Logos User Voice suggestion => Add the Handout Feature in Logos for Mac! 

plus Bob Pritchett's reply on 11 Jan 2012 => http://community.logos.com/forums/p/43165/324294.aspx#324294 included:

I designed the handouts feature. I like it. It's not on the Mac, and we've said that it's not immediately planned there because it would require a fundamental re-write, since the Windows implementation uses a WPF-specific feature.

 

At the moment, it's planned for the Mac. The new technology we need for laying out handouts is being coded now, for both platforms. We're doing it for something else. We don't know how fast it'll perform, or if it'll meet all handouts needs, but it's in the right direction.

 

Right now, handouts lacks the support of some people in the company. They think it's a complicated feature that didn't get any traction. Only a few people use it, and they have complaints. Fixing the things they don't like will be hard and expensive. The new technology will still needs lots of work to re-implement handouts on top of it. 

 

People are carrying smart-phones and tablets. More and more every year. By the time Logos 5 is done it might be more reasonable to have a pastor email a list of links to Biblia.com than to print a paper handout to give out physically.

 

Even if not, as we approach shipping Logos 5, we may run low on time. We may want to get the other data and features out and not have handouts done on Mac. We may not want to take the heat of Mac users complaining of no feature parity.

 

Handouts might get cut late in the process. Or might not.

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Comments

  • Mike Binks
    Mike Binks MVP Posts: 7,459

    What I wouldn't like is to find Logos spending coding time on producing a second rate Desktop Publishing Program – there are so many offerings out there that do this so much better.

    Digital Handouts may be a different matter - but wouldn't that require everyone to be able to access the linked resources?

    Perhaps what might be more useful than links that go to Logos desktop software would be links that went to something like Biblia.com  where access could be given to limited extracts from resources not owned by the handout receiver.

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