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My feature request: similar to the \"insert pic\", create an insert slide. You upload a .PPT and select which slide you want to use. If teachersare going to use this,…",{"id":199,"by":200,"text":201},"8207341","8ig8","Re: #2, feature exists. See Options > Insert Pic.",[203,213],{"value":204,"source":100,"evidence":205},"How is drawing data transferred between clients",[206,210],{"id":207,"by":208,"text":209},"8206990","rhubarbcustard","Nicely done, website is nice and it's great that you can just click and get started straight away. In your comment you said you moved away from mySQL, what exactly do you store…",{"id":211,"by":11,"text":212},"8207027","The drawing is basically a list of strokes, and a stroke is a list of points - that is, (x, y) coordinates. So the database is mostly a huge table of (x,y) coordinates. 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