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Screen Presentation Tools
Tools for Creating Screen or Online Presentations
Michael Wiedmann
< mw at miwie dot in-berlin dot de>
Copyright � 2001 - 2005 Michael Wiedmann
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Revision History
Revision 0.1.16 2005-10-03
Added example for section powerdot
Revision 0.1.0 2004-03-22
Source format switched to DocBook XML (V4.3). Using DocBook
XSL Stylesheets (V1.69.1), and DB2LaTeX XSL Stylesheets
(V0.8pre1+20040315) for generating the various output formats.
Revision 0.0.1 2001-03-10
Initial release.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1 PDF Based Solutions
1 AxPoint
2 beamer
3 foiltex
4 HA-prosper
5 ifmslide
6 IPE
7 pdfscreen
8 PPower4 - P^4, PDF Presentation Post Processor
9 Prosper
10 rayslides
11 ReportLab / PythonPoint
12 seminar
13 slidenotes
14 slideshow
15 TeXPower
16 web
2 HTML Based Solutions
1 DocBook dbslide
2 DocBook slides
3 latex2slides
3 Other Solutions
1 DFBPoint
2 mechapoint
3 mgp - MagicPoint
4 Todo
1 Active-DVI
2 Combined Slidemaker
3 ConTeXt
4 elpres
5 gpresent
6 HavenPoint
7 ImPress
8 Java Power Presenter - JPP
9 JackSVG
10 LyX
11 marSLIDE
12 mozPoint
13 Orator
14 pdfslide
15 pdfwin
16 Pointless
17 powerdot
18 PPPSlides
19 Prestimel
20 pylize
21 Pyslide
22 S5
23 screen.sty
24 Slidemaker
25 SlideML
26 slides
27 slides.sh
28 Slideshow
29 talk
30 TeX4ht: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
31 TPP Text Presentation Program
32 Utopia PDF Presentations Bundle
33 WML - Website META Language
34 xdvipresent
35 XSLies
5 Hints and Tricks
1 PDF
A History, Credits, Remarks, and License
1 History
2 Credits
3 About this Document
4 GNU Free Documentation License
Index
List of Figures
1.1 AxPoint example
1.2 beamer example: title page in Acrobat Reader
1.3 foiltex example: title page in Acrobat Reader
1.4 HA-prosper example: titlepage slide
1.5 HA-prosper example: introduction slide
1.6 HA-prosper example: welcome slide
1.7 ifmslide example: title page in Acrobat Reader
1.8 IPE example
1.9 pdfscreen example: title page in Acrobat Reader
1.10 prosper example: page in Acrobat Reader
1.11 rayslides example: title page
1.12 rayslides example: second page
1.13 PythonPoint example: page in Acrobat Reader
1.14 slidenotes example: sample page
1.15 slidenotes example: sample page with notes
1.16 slideshow example
1.17 TexPower example: title page in Acrobat Reader
1.18 TexPower example: partial displayed page 2
1.19 web.sty example: title page in Acrobat Reader
1.20 web.sty example: page in Acrobat Reader
2.1 slides example: title page in Netscape
2.2 slides example: first page in Netscape
3.1 mgp example in Acrobat Reader
4.1 powerdot example
List of Examples
1.1 AxPoint Example
1.2 beamer example
1.3 foiltex Example
1.4 HA-prosper Example
1.5 ifmslide Example
1.6 IPE xml file
1.7 pdfscreen Example
1.8 PPower4 Example
1.9 prosper Example
1.10 RaySlides Example
1.11 PythonPoint Example
1.12 slidenotes Example
1.13 slideshow Example
1.14 TexPower Example
1.15 web.sty Example
2.1 DocBook dbslide Example
2.2 DocBook slides Example
3.1 DFBPoint Example
3.2 mechapoint Example
3.3 mgp Example
4.1 elpres Example
4.2 powerdot Example
4.3 TPP Example
Preface
Preparing a presentation usually means creating some sort of
slides. The more LCD projectors get common in working
environments, the more comes to mind creating such
presentation material as a screen version, which can be viewed
using a LCD projector or at least a computer screen. As a side
effect such presentations can usually easily be presented on a
website.
This document tries to show some possible solutions for
creating screen based presentations. Most of the listed
solutions are LaTeX-based because I personally prefer LaTeX -
and derived tools - over other documentation systems. So
called Office Solutions are not listed.
This list for sure is far from being complete. If you know of
any other solution please let me know so that I can include it
in this document. Contributions are very welcome.
The presented solutions are divided in three groups: PDF Based
Solutions, HTML Based Solutions, and Other Solutions. In case
a specific solution would fit in more than one group, I tried
to choose the most appropriate one. An additional chapter Todo
lists all the tools which I haven't had time yet to look at.
The chapter Hints and Tricks will list interesting hints and
tricks for creating presentations.
Chapter 1. PDF Based Solutions
Table of Contents
1 AxPoint
2 beamer
3 foiltex
4 HA-prosper
5 ifmslide
6 IPE
7 pdfscreen
8 PPower4 - P^4, PDF Presentation Post Processor
9 Prosper
10 rayslides
11 ReportLab / PythonPoint
12 seminar
13 slidenotes
14 slideshow
15 TeXPower
16 web
This chapter lists tools which generate PDF as their main
output format. Some of them might be able to generate other
output formats too (like PS).
1. AxPoint
1.1. General Description
"AxPoint is a presentation making tool from the makers of
Apache AxKit. It allows you to build beautiful presentations
using a simple XML description format. "
1.1.1. Example
Example 1.1. AxPoint Example
AxKitMatt Sergeantmatt@axkit.comAxKit.com Ltd
http://axkit.com/
ax_logo.pngredbg.pngIntroductionPerl's XML Capabilities<
/point>
A long bullet point line for testing the line
wrapping capabilities which should make this look OK
AxKit static sitesAxKit dynamic sites (XSP)Advanced AxKitFoo!Table Example
Some code;
in the
++ first; # column
that {
maybe we
want to comment();
on...
}
and a point here...followed by more codeand another point
Notice how we did this...And how we can add stuff over here!include <ing.h> //code
A CatXML with Perl IntroductionA very long title that should show how word
wrapping in the title tag hopefully works
properly todaySAX-like APIregister callback handler methodsstart tagend tagcharacterscommentsprocessing instructions... and moreNon validating XML parserdies (throws an exception) on bad XMLXML::Parser code
my $p = XML::Parser->new(
Handlers => {
Start => \&start_tag,
End => \&end_tag,
# add more handlers here
});
$p->parsefile("foo.xml");
exit(0);
sub start_tag {
my ($expat, $tag, %attribs) = @_;
print "Start tag: $tag\n";
}
sub end_tag {
my ($expat, $tag) = @_;
print "End tag: $tag\n";
}
XML::XPath ImplementationXML::Parser and SAX parsers build an
in-memory treeHand-built parser for XPath syntax
(rather than YACC based parser)Garbage Collection yet still has
circular references (and works on Perl 5.005)pointers.pngConclusionsPerl and XML are a
powerful combinationXPath and XSLT add
to the mix...AxKit can reduce your
long term costsIn site re-designand in content re-purposingOpen Source equal to
commercial alternativesworld_map-960.pngResources and contactAxKit: http://axkit.org/CPAN: http://search.cpan.orglibxml and libxslt: http://www.xmlsoft.orgSablotron: http://www.gingerall.comXPath and XSLT Tutorials: http://zvon.org
See Figure 1.1, "AxPoint example".
Figure 1.1. AxPoint example
AxPoint example
1.2. Requirements
1.2.1. Mandatory
* XML::SAX (Perl module)
* XML::SAX::Writer (Perl module)
* pdflib version 4 (C library and Perl module)
* PDFLib (Perl module)
1.3. Homepage
http://axpoint.axkit.org/
1.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 2001 Matt Sergeant
Artistic License or GPL
2. beamer
2.1. General Description
"beamer -- A LaTeX class to produce beamer presentations "
2.1.1. Example
Example 1.2. beamer example
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{beamerthemesplit}
\title{Example Presentation Created with the Beamer Package}
\author{Till Tantau}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\frame{\titlepage}
\section[Outline]{}
\frame{\tableofcontents}
\section{Introduction}
\subsection{Overview of the Beamer Class}
\frame
{
\frametitle{Features of the Beamer Class}
\begin{itemize}
\item<1-> Normal LaTeX class.
\item<2-> Easy overlays.
\item<3-> No external programs needed.
\end{itemize}
}
\end{document}
See Figure 1.2, "beamer example: title page in Acrobat
Reader".
Figure 1.2. beamer example: title page in Acrobat Reader
beamer example: title page in Acrobat Reader
2.2. Requirements
2.2.1. Mandatory
Working LaTeX installation.
pgf LaTeX Portable Graphics Format
2.3. Homepage
CTAN
2.4. Copyright and License
Copyright 2003 by Till Tantau
LPPL
3. foiltex
3.1. General Description
foiltex is a LaTeX document class which lets you create foils
using most of the available LaTeX commands and environments.
Different options let you specify head and/or foot rules,
title pages, etc. The macro \MyLogo together with the graphics
or graphicx package let's you put some graphic as the logo on
every page (placed at the left part of the footline).
Processing a foiltex sourcefile using LaTeX creates DVI output
in the usual way, using pdfTeX (pdfLaTeX) allows you to create
high quality PDF output. With latex2html and the FoilHTML
package (look for it at your nearest CTAN mirror) you can
create HTML output from your foiltex source files.
3.1.1. Example
Example 1.3. foiltex Example
\documentclass[a4paper,landscape,headrule]{foils}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\title{Some Title}
\author{Some User \texttt{}}
\date{Apr 01, 2001}
\MyLogo{}
\rightfooter{}
\leftheader{Project Presentation}
\rightheader{Project Title\quad\textsf{\tiny[\thepage]}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
\end{abstract}
\foilhead{Introduction}
\begin{itemize}
\item Topic 1
\item Topic 2
\item ...
\end{itemize}
\foilhead{Overview}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics{overview.eps}
\end{center}
\end{document}
See Figure 1.3, "foiltex example: title page in Acrobat
Reader".
Figure 1.3. foiltex example: title page in Acrobat Reader
foiltex example: title page in Acrobat Reader
3.2. Requirements
3.2.1. Mandatory
Working LaTeX installation.
3.2.2. Optional
pdfTeX for PDF output.
latex2html and FoilHTML for HTML output.
3.3. Homepage
CTAN
3.4. Copyright and License
Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 1995;
All rights reserved
Use is governed by explicit restrictions. These can be found
in the header of the foiltex.ins file.
4. HA-prosper
4.1. General Description
"HA-prosper is based on the prosper class but adds a lot new
possibilities and implements some bug fixes for prosper. The
main features of HA-prosper are the automatically generated
table of contents, portrait slides support and the possibility
to include notes in your presentation. But there are a lot
more features which are described in full detail in the
manual. "
4.1.1. Example
Example 1.4. HA-prosper Example
\documentclass[pdf,distiller]{prosper}
\usepackage[toc,highlight,HA]{HA-prosper}
\title{Introduction to the HA-prosper package}
\subtitle{A package for use with prosper}
\author{Hendri Adriaens\\
\institution{CentER}\\
\institution{\href{http://center.uvt.nl/phd_stud/adriaens}
{http://center.uvt.nl/phd\string_stud/adriaens}}}
\DefaultTransition{Wipe}
\TitleSlideNav{FullScreen}
\NormalSlideNav{ShowBookmarks}
\LeftFoot{\href{http://center.uvt.nl/phd_stud/adriaens}{Hendri Adriaens
}, \today}
\RightFoot{Introduction to the HA-prosper package}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tsectionandpart{Introduction}
\overlays{2}{
\begin{slide}{Welcome}
\begin{itemstep}
\item Welcome to the introduction of the HA-prosper package.
\item The main features of HA-prosper are:
\begin{itemize}
\item table of contents;
\item portrait slides support;
\item notes;
\item prosper bug solutions.
\end{itemize}
\end{itemstep}
\end{slide}
}
\end{document}
See Figure 1.4, "HA-prosper example: titlepage slide",
Figure 1.5, "HA-prosper example: introduction slide", and
Figure 1.6, "HA-prosper example: welcome slide".
Figure 1.4. HA-prosper example: titlepage slide
HA-prosper example: titlepage slide
Figure 1.5. HA-prosper example: introduction slide
HA-prosper example: introduction slide
Figure 1.6. HA-prosper example: welcome slide
HA-prosper example: welcome slide
4.2. Requirements
4.2.1. Mandatory
keyval, xcomment, verbatim
4.3. Homepage
http://stuwww.uvt.nl/~hendri/downloads/haprosper.html
HA-prosper is available on CTAN
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ha-pro
sper.html) and in MiKTeX (http://www.miktex.org).
4.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 2003 by Hendri Adriaens
LPPL
5. ifmslide
5.1. General Description
"ifmslide provides both: getting a presentation with pdfLaTeX
and printouts with LaTeX and - as a side effect - simple
production of your slides using your favourite DVI-viewer. You
don't need PPower4 to get all these nice effects with
page-transitions and stepwise building of the pages. All you
need is TeXPower and hyperref.sty for the links and buttons
etc. ifmslide makes use of the special features of the classes
seminar and powersem (part of TeXPower). "
5.1.1. Example
Example 1.5. ifmslide Example
\documentclass[a4paper,KOMA,landscape]{powersem}
\usepackage[button]{ifmslide}
\begin{document}
\sffamily
\orgname{}
\title{\begin{minipage}[t]{0.98\textwidth}\begin{center}
{\mdseries ifmslide Example}\\[1ex]
Enhanced presentations with (PDF)\LaTeX{}\\
combining the TeXPower, hyperref and seminar-packages\\
\end{center}\end{minipage}}
\author{\scalebox{1}[1.3]{Michael Wiedmann}}
\address{\href{mailto:mw@miwie.in-berlin.de}%
{mw@miwie.in-berlin.de}}
\begin{slide}
\maketitle
\end{slide}
\end{document}
See Figure 1.7, "ifmslide example: title page in Acrobat
Reader".
Figure 1.7. ifmslide example: title page in Acrobat Reader
ifmslide example: title page in Acrobat Reader
5.2. Requirements
5.2.1. Mandatory
hyperref.sty
TeXPower
5.3. Homepage
http://coulomb.mechanik.tu-darmstadt.de/user/emmel/
5.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 2000 by Thomas Emmel
LPPL
The bundle is placed under the LaTeX Project
Public License (macros/latex/base/lppl.txt on CTAN).
6. IPE
Note
The content of this section is heavily based on the
contribution of Jan Hlavacek.
6.1. General Description
IPE is a vector graphics editor integrated with pdflatex, with
strong support for creating multi-page incerementally built
pdf presentations. It uses pdflatex to typeset text elements
and math formulas on the page. It is especially useful if your
presentation has a lot of graphics or if you desire a complete
control over the location of your text elements on the page.
6.1.1. Example
Example 1.6. IPE xml file
...
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f$Thi
s line will get an arrow
Figure 1.8. IPE example
IPE example
6.2. Requirements
6.2.1. Mandatory
* PdfLaTeX
* Qt 2.3.0 or higher
* Unix, OS X or Windows
6.2.2. Optional
URW Postscript fonts
6.3. Homepage
IPE
6.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 1993 - 2004 Otfried Cheong
GPL
7. pdfscreen
7.1. General Description
"pdfscreen package helps to redesign the pdf output of your
normal documents fit to be read in a computer monitor while
retaining the freedom to format it for conventional printing.
This has been brought about by redefining the margins and page
height/width and related dimensions to fit into that of the
computer screen. By changing the options to print you can
switch the package to format the document in the conventional
way as your class file dictates. "
Users familiar with LaTeX will not have any difficulties in
using this package.
7.1.1. Example
Example 1.7. pdfscreen Example
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{xspace,colortbl}
\usepackage[screen,panelleft,gray,paneltoc]{pdfscreen}
\margins{.75in}{.75in}{.75in}{.75in}
\screensize{6.25in}{8in}
\begin{document}
\begin{screen}
\title{\color{section0}\Huge Some Title}
\end{screen}
\begin{print}
\title{\HugeSome Title}
\end{print}
\author{\color{section1}\Large Michael Wiedmann\\
{\small\href{mailto:mw@miwie.in-berlin.de}
{\color{section1}\texttt{mw@miwie.in-berlin.de}}}}
\maketitle
\begin{screen}
\vfill
\end{screen}
\begin{abstract}
\noindent
foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
\end{abstract}
\begin{print}
\tableofcontents
\end{print}
\begin{screen}
\vfill
\end{screen}
\begin{slide}
\begin{itemize}
\item item 1
\item item 2
\item item 3
\end{itemize}
\end{slide}
\begin{slide}
\begin{itemize}
\item item 1
\item item 2
\item item 3
\end{itemize}
\end{slide}
\end{document}
See Figure 1.9, "pdfscreen example: title page in Acrobat
Reader".
Figure 1.9. pdfscreen example: title page in Acrobat Reader
pdfscreen example: title page in Acrobat Reader
7.2. Requirements
7.2.1. Mandatory
Working LaTeX installation.
hyperref.sty
7.2.2. Optional
pdfTeX for PDF output.
latex2html for HTML output.
7.3. Homepage
http://www.river-valley.com/download/
7.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 C. V. Radhakrishnan
LPPL
" This package may be distributed under the terms of the LaTeX
Project Public License, as described in lppl.txt in the base
LaTeX distribution. Either version 1.0 or, at your option, any
later version. "
7.5. Special Notes
There is also a version which can be used with LyX. See
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/lyx/pdfscreen.tar.gz (based
on an outdated version of pdfscreen.sty).
8. PPower4 - P^4, PDF Presentation Post Processor
8.1. General Description
PPower4 is a post processor for LaTeX files to build pages
step by step.
PPower4 provides a small LaTeX package (pause.sty) which let's
the user insert small coloured spots (using the command
\pause) in the PDF file where a break should be make during
display. During postprocessing PPower4 removes these coloured
chunks and adjusts the page number. This leads to the
impression that the same page is displayed step by step.
Additional packages are provided for setting background
colours (background.sty) and page transitions (pagetrans.tex)
- this actually is a feature of hyperref.sty and can be used
with any LaTeX based solution.
8.1.1. Example
Example 1.8. PPower4 Example
...
% example for PDF pagetransition
\Dissolve
...
\begin{itemize}
\item item 1\pause
\item item 2\pause
\item item 3\pause
\end{itemize}
...
8.2. Requirements
8.2.1. Mandatory
JVM or JRE (Java 1.1.6, 1.2; Kaffe >= 1.0.5)
8.2.2. Optional
hyperref.sty
8.3. Homepage
PPower4
8.4. Copyright and License
GPL
9. Prosper
9.1. General Description
"Prosper is a LaTeX class for writing transparencies. It is
written on top of the seminar class by Timothy Van Zandt. It
aims at offering an environment for easily creating slides for
both presentations with an overhead projector and a video
projector. Slides prepared for a presentation with a computer
and a video projector may integrate animation effects,
incremental display, and such. "
9.1.1. Example
Example 1.9. prosper Example
\documentclass[slideColor,colorBG,pdf,azure]{prosper}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\title{The \texttt{Prosper} Class}
\subtitle{Producing Slides with \LaTeX}
\author{John Doe}
\email{jd@eval.com}
\institution{The Evaluation Company}
\slideCaption{Slides with \texttt{Prosper}/\LaTeX}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\overlays{3}{
\begin{slide}{Introduction}
The \texttt{Prosper} class translates into two different formats:
\begin{itemize}
\item Adobe\textregistered\ \it{Postscript}\texttrademark
\item Adobe\textregistered\ \it{Portable Document Format}
\texttrademark\ (PDF)
\end{itemize}
The compilation process:\\
\fromSlide*{1}{\fbox{\LaTeX}}%
\fromSlide*{2}{$\rightarrow$ \fbox{DVI}}%
\fromSlide*{3}{$\rightarrow$ \fbox{PostScript} or \fbox{PDF}}%
\end{slide}
}
\end{document}
See Figure 1.10, "prosper example: page in Acrobat Reader".
Figure 1.10. prosper example: page in Acrobat Reader
prosper example: page in Acrobat Reader
9.2. Requirements
9.2.1. Mandatory
* graphicx.sty, seminar.sty, hyperref.sty
* Slide styles need PSTricks and AMSLaTeX (amssymb)
* Recent version of Ghostscript (version >= 6.0) to produce
PDF
9.2.2. Additionals
* HA-Prosper The HA-prosper package for LaTeX provides a way
to make nice looking slides using LaTeX. This gives you
the opportunity to copy and paste formulas from your
papers directly into the presentation. The package has
been based on the prosper class but offers a lot of new
possibilities and some bug fixes.
* Prosper-make allows you to easily generate your Prosper
presentation in the most common formats.
* ppr-prv stands for "Prosper Preview". The aim of this
class is to produce a printable version of the slides
written with Prosper, with two slides per page.
* DTU-style for prosper compatible with the DTU (Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Technical university of
Denmark) Powerpoint style.
* Wiki Prosper is a WikiWikiWeb dedicated to the use of the
LaTeX Prosper style.
9.3. Homepage
http://prosper.sourceforge.net
CTAN
9.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 2000 Frederic Goualard, all rights reserved.
LPPL
10. rayslides
10.1. General Description
"RaySlides macros provide LaTeX2e commands for making overhead
slides (transparencies) within the article style. The
underlying philosophy for these commands recognizes both the
resources of the article style for slide preparation as well
as the practical inconvenience of accesing these resources for
overhead slides. Consequently, RaySlides simply supplements
the article style with macros specialized for designing and
formatting slides. This approach retains the commands and
familiarity of the article style while providing an interface
for slides. "
10.1.1. Example
Example 1.10. RaySlides Example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{rayslides}
\ezmakehead{0.6in}
{}
{}
{\LARGE\emph{\rayslides\ Macros: \\ Summary}}
\ezmakefoot{1cm}
{\smallskip
\textrm{\copyright}\ R.A. McKendall 1994,1998\\ University of Penns
ylvania}
{\textbf{\thepage}/\pageref{lastpage}}
{\jobname.tex\\ rayslides.sty}
\writelpfile
\slideframe
\newcommand {\cs} [1] {\textmd{\texttt{\string#1}}}
\renewcommand{\arg} [1] {\textmd{\texttt{\{#1\}}}} % required argument
\begin {document}
%--- Slide 1 ---
\titlepageslide
{\rayslides \\ \LaTeXe{} Macros for Overhead Slides \\
\texttt{rayslides.sty (2.0)}}
{Raymond A McKendall}
{Computer and Information Science \\ University of Pennsylvania \\
Philadelphia, PA}
{Summary Manual \\ June 1998}
%--- Slide 2 ---
\newslide{Overview}
\begin{point}{Purpose}
Use \rayslides\ package to make overhead slides
(transparencies) within \LaTeXe's article class:
\subdetail{\cs{\documentclass}\arg{article}}
\subdetail{\cs{\usepackage}\arg{rayslides}}
Read this manual\footnote{%
\texttt{/pkg/doc/tex/RaySlidesSummary.tex}}
for a summary of the main macros.
Read the \LaTeX\ source for examples.
Read the user's guide\footnote{%
\texttt{/pkg/doc/tex/RaySlidesGuide.ps}}
for a complete description of the macros.
\end{point}
%--- Slide 3 ---
\newslide{Page Layout}
\begin{point}{Horizontal layout}
Left margin. Body. Right margin.
\end{point}
\begin{pointNlist}{Vertical layout}
\item Top margin -- empty space along top of page
\item Head -- runner along top of page
\item Top separation -- space between head and body
\item Body -- main contents of slide
\item Bottom separation -- space between body and foot
\item Foot -- runner along bottom of page
\item Bottom margin -- empty space along bottom of page
\end{pointNlist}
\end{document}
See Figure 1.11, "rayslides example: title page" and
Figure 1.12, "rayslides example: second page".
Figure 1.11. rayslides example: title page
rayslides example: title page
Figure 1.12. rayslides example: second page
rayslides example: second page
10.2. Requirements
10.2.1. Mandatory
LaTeX2e
10.2.2. Optional
pdfTeX for PDF output.
10.3. Homepage
RaySlides
10.4. Copyright and License
Copyright 1998 by Raymond A. McKendall
11. ReportLab / PythonPoint
11.1. General Description
PythonPoint is a demo application of the ReportLab toolkit, a
Python library for creating PDF documents. It uses an XML
source format which gets converted directly to PDF output.
An experimental DTD (Document Type Definition) is available
from the author of this document. It can be used to validate
your source file using an XML parser.
11.1.1. Example
Example 1.11. PythonPoint Example
\documentclass[a4paper,landscape,headrule]{foils}
PythonPoint ExampleMichael WiedmannReportlab Pythonpoint Example
»%(title)s, page %(page)s«
Welcome to PythonPoint...a library for creating presentation
slides.
PythonPoint lets you create attractive and consistent
presentation slides on any platform. It is a demo app built
on top of the PDFgen PDF library and the PLATYPUS Page Layout
library. Essentially, it converts slides in an XML format to PDF.
It can be used right now to create
slide shows, but will undoubtedly change and evolve. Read on
for a tutorial...
See Figure 1.13, "PythonPoint example: page in Acrobat
Reader".
Figure 1.13. PythonPoint example: page in Acrobat Reader
PythonPoint example: page in Acrobat Reader
11.2. Requirements
11.2.1. Mandatory
Python 1.5X
11.3. Homepage
ReportLab
11.3.1. Additional Links
The experimental DTD can be found at:
http://www.miwie.org/pythonpoint/
11.4. Copyright and License
Copyright ReportLab Inc. 2000
ReportLab Public License Version 1.0
Except for the change of names the spirit and intention
of this license is the same as that of Python.
12. seminar
12.1. General Description
tbd.
12.2. Requirements
12.2.1. Mandatory
Working LaTeX installation.
12.2.2. Optional
pdfTeX for PDF output.
latex2html for HTML output.
12.2.3. Additionals
PDF Seminar is a simple style file designed for seminar
presentations. It provides pop-up menus for page selections
and for basic navigation (such as next page, previous page
etc.). All of the menus are built on PDF forms and thus the
package is suitable for use only with PDF viewers than can
handle PDF forms (such as Adobe Acrobat Reader).
12.3. Homepage
TUG
12.4. Copyright and License
COPYRIGHT 1993, by Timothy Van Zandt, tvz@Princeton.EDU
Copying of part or all of any file in the seminar.sty
package is allowed under the following conditions only:
(1) You may freely distribute unchanged copies of the
files. Please include the documentation when you do so.
(2) You may modify a renamed copy of any file, but only
for personal use or use within an organization.
(3) You may copy fragments from the files, for personal
use or for use in a macro package for distribution,
as long as credit is given where credit is due.
13. slidenotes
13.1. General Description
"This is a short introduction to the slidenotes packes. This
LaTeX class generates either slides, slides and notes, or
collection of notes. Slides may be in landscape or portrait
layout, or both. Various frame types are supported... "
13.1.1. Example
Example 1.12. slidenotes Example
\documentclass[notes,portrait,rules]{slidenotes}
\title{Introduction to the \textsf{slidenotes} class}
\author{John Doe}
\date{26.7.2001}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{slide}[Introduction]
The \textsf{slidenotes} class provides the following main features:
\begin{itemize}
\item choosing between slides, slides+notes, collection of slides
\item landscape or portrait layout (also mixed)
\item various slide frames
\end{itemize}
\slidesubtitle{Other features}
\begin{itemize}
\item notes in smaller font than slides (optional)
\item vertical centering of slides
\end{itemize}
\end{slide}
\begin{note}
\cue{Main Feature}
This is a short introduction to the \textsf{slidenotes} packes.
This \LaTeX class generates either slides, slides and notes,
or collection of notes. Slides may be in landscape or portrait
layout, or both. Various frame types are supported\ldots
\cue{Other Features}
Notes may be typeset in a smaller font than the slides' font.
Various option exist for the vertical side position\ldots
\end{note}
\end{document}
See Figure 1.14, "slidenotes example: sample page" and
Figure 1.15, "slidenotes example: sample page with notes".
Figure 1.14. slidenotes example: sample page
slidenotes example: sample page
Figure 1.15. slidenotes example: sample page with notes
slidenotes example: sample page with notes
13.2. Requirements
13.2.1. Mandatory
report.cls, verbatim.sty, graphics.sty or graphicx.sty
13.3. Homepage
http://hermes.wins.uva.nl/~hansm/publications.html
13.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 1993-1996 Hans van der Meer
14. slideshow
14.1. General Description
"slideshow is a small macro package which simplifies the
process of creating slide-show style presentations using plain
metapost and ghostscript. The package assists in producing
slides with dimensions 6.4 inches wide by 4.8 inches high,
which the user is then expected to convert into a pdf file
using ghostscript as a PS distiller. "
14.1.1. Example
Example 1.13. slideshow Example
input pathalong;
input slideshow;
author("Patrick TJ McPhee");
title("Introducing slide-show macros");
keywords("presentations metapost");
copyright("Copyright 2001 Patrick TJ McPhee. You may redistribute and
modify for any purpose, but must acknowledge significant quotation.")
;
continue;
nextfig;
defaultscale := 2;
draw textunder((0,.5in){up}..{right}(2in,1in), "Introducing")
shifted (1in,3in) withcolor textcolour;
endfig;
nextfig;
blabel.rt("Slide Show Macros", (2in,2in));
endfig;
defaultscale := 1;
nextfig;
draw pathalong((0,.5in){up}..{right}(2in,1in), "by Patrick TJ McPhee"
)
shifted (1in,3in) withcolor textcolour;
hyperdest("Start");
endfig;
discontinue;
header("Rationale");
bpoint("Primarily an intellectual exercise");
bpoint("But may be useful for graphics-intensive presentations
which don't use much text");
bpoint("Slideshow provides support for this irritating style
of bullet presentation");
bpoint("And writes out some pdfmarks, which you would otherwise
have to look up yourself");
...
picture lt, mp, dvi, gs, postp, vres, pres, fpres;
lt := procbox("laTeX") shifted (.05 lawidth, .2laheight);
mp := procbox("metapost") shifted (.05 lawidth, .1laheight);
dvi := procbox("DVI processor") shifted (.2 lawidth, .15laheight);
vres := resultbox("viewable result") shifted (.4 lawidth, .15 laheight)
;
gs := procbox("distiller") shifted (.65 lawidth, .15laheight);
pres := resultbox("presentation") shifted (.8 lawidth, .15laheight);
postp := procbox("post-processor") shifted (.7 lawidth, .3laheight);
fpres := resultbox("final presentation") shifted (.45 lawidth, .3laheig
ht);
nextfig;
bullet.in("text prepared with laTeX");
draw lt withcolor white;
endfig;
nextfig;
bullet.in("graphics prepared with metapost (okay, 2 components)");
draw mp withcolor red;
endfig;
nextfig;
bullet.in("which are combined with dvi processing software");
pickup thin nib;
drawarrow (.5[lrcorner mp,urcorner mp]){right}..{right}
(.5[llcorner dvi,ulcorner dvi]) withcolor .25[red,white];
drawarrow (.5[lrcorner lt,urcorner lt]){right}..{right}
(.5[llcorner dvi,ulcorner dvi]) withcolor .25[white,red];
draw dvi withcolor .5[white,red];
endfig;
nextfig;
bullet.in("the resulting postscript is viewable, but must
be distilled into the presentation");
pickup thin nib;
drawarrow (.5[lrcorner dvi,urcorner dvi])..(.5[llcorner vres,ulcorner
vres])
withcolor .1[.5[red,white],green];
draw vres withcolor .5[.5[white,red],green];
endfig;
...
nextfig;
pickup thin nib;
drawarrow (.5[llcorner postp,ulcorner postp])..(.5[lrcorner fpres,urc
orner fpres])
withcolor .95[green,white];
draw fpres withcolor white;
endfig;
discontinue;
...
discontinue;
header("Limitations");
bpoint("Metapost doesn't handle text very well");
bpoint("It's difficult to include non-metapost graphics (e.g., bit-maps
)");
bpoint("There's no provision for producing print-only versions of the i
nformation");
bpoint("There's no concept of presentation styles");
bpoint("It generally requires some configuration of ghostscript and met
apost, especially if you use math");
bpoint("The other methods for producing presentations using TeX-family
tools aren't as complicated as I suggested");
bpoint.in("I personally use my own plain-TeX style with just TeX, metap
ost, and dvipdfm");
...
nextfig;
hyperlabel(breaktowidth("Thanks for sticking to the end. Click on thi
s text to start over.", .5lawidth)(ignore), (.5lawidth, .5laheight), "S
tart");
endfig;
end
See Figure 1.16, "slideshow example".
Figure 1.16. slideshow example
slideshow example
14.2. Requirements
MetaPost
14.3. Homepage
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macro
s/slideshow/
14.4. Copyright and License
Copyright 2001 Patrick McPhee
?
15. TeXPower
15.1. General Description
"The TeXPower bundle contains style and class files for
creating dynamic online presentations with LaTeX. The heart of
the bundle is the package texpower.sty which implements some
commands for presentation effects. This includes page
transitions, color highlighting and displaying pages
incrementally. "
15.1.1. Example
Example 1.14. TexPower Example
\documentclass[landscape]{foils}
\usepackage{fixseminar}
\usepackage[display]{texpower}
\begin{document}
\title{The \code{texpower} / {\normalfont \texttt{foils} Demo}}
\author{Stephan Lehmke\\\code{mailto:Stephan.Lehmke@cs.uni-dortmund.de}
}
\maketitle
\foilhead{A list environment}
\pause
\stepwise
{
\begin{description}
\item[foo.] \step{bar.}
\step{\item[baz.]} \step{qux.}
\end{description}
}
\foilhead{An aligned equation}
\pause
\parstepwise
{
\begin{eqnarray}
\sum_{i=1}^{n} i & \step{=} & \restep{1 + 2 + \cdots + (n-1) + n}\\
& \step{=} & \restep{1 + n + 2 + (n-1) + \cdots}\\
& \step{=} & \restep
{
\switch
{
\vphantom{\underbrace{(1 + n) +
\cdots + (1 + n)}_{\times\frac{n}{2}}}%
(1 + n) + \cdots + (1 + n)%
}
{\underbrace{(1 + n) + \cdots + (1 + n)}_{\times\frac{n}{2}}}%
}
\\
& \step{=} & \restep{\frac{(1 + n)\step{{}\cdot n}}{\restep{2}}}
\end{eqnarray}
}
\end{document}
See Figure 1.17, "TexPower example: title page in Acrobat
Reader" and Figure 1.18, "TexPower example: partial displayed
page 2".
Figure 1.17. TexPower example: title page in Acrobat Reader
TexPower example: title page in Acrobat Reader
Figure 1.18. TexPower example: partial displayed page 2
TexPower example: partial displayed page 2
15.2. Requirements
15.2.1. Optional
hyperref.sty
soul.sty
15.3. Homepage
http://texpower.sourceforge.net/
15.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 1999-2002 by Stephan Lehmke
GPL
16. web
16.1. General Description
"The purpose of the web package is to create a page layout for
documents meant for screen presentation, whether over the WWW
or classroom/conference presentations, in PDF. Such documents
are not (necessarily) intended to be printed; consequently,
the page layout is, in some sense, optimized for screen
viewing. "
16.1.1. Example
Example 1.15. web.sty Example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[pdftex]{web}
\title{Some Title}
\author{\href{mailto:mw@miwie.in-berlin.de}{Michael Wiedmann}}
\university{Private Organization}
\email{mw@miwie.in-berlin.de}
\version{1.0}
\copyrightyears{2001}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\section{First Section}
\begin{description}
\item [item1]description 1
\item [item2]description 2
\end{description}
\section{Another Section}
\begin{itemize}
\item item 1
\item item 2
\item item 3
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
See Figure 1.19, "web.sty example: title page in Acrobat
Reader" and Figure 1.20, "web.sty example: page in Acrobat
Reader".
Figure 1.19. web.sty example: title page in Acrobat Reader
web.sty example: title page in Acrobat Reader
Figure 1.20. web.sty example: page in Acrobat Reader
web.sty example: page in Acrobat Reader
16.2. Requirements
16.2.1. Mandatory
Working LaTeX installation.
16.3. Homepage
http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/webeq.html
16.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 1999-2000 D. P. Story
LPPL
This program can redistributed and/or modified under
the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License
Distributed from CTAN archives in directory
macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either version 1 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
Chapter 2. HTML Based Solutions
Table of Contents
1 DocBook dbslide
2 DocBook slides
3 latex2slides
This chapter lists tools which generate HTML as their main
output format. Some of them might be able to generate other
output formats too (like PS).
1. DocBook dbslide
1.1. General Description
"dbslide is a package of files that allows you to create
screen presentations, overheads, and handouts from a DocBook
SGML document. "
1.1.1. Example
Example 2.1. DocBook dbslide Example
MichaelWiedmann
mw@miwie.in-berlin.de
DocBook dbslide ExampleAbstractA very simple demonstration of dbslideitem 1item 2Key featuresFeaturesfeature 1feature 2feature 3
1.2. Requirements
1.2.1. Mandatory
Because this is a customization of the DocBook DSSSL
stylesheets you need the DocBook DTD itself and Norman Walsh's
DSSSL stylesheets. To create HTML output you need of course
Jade or OpenJade.
1.2.2. Optional
The package contains also separate stylesheet files for
creating print output. For this to work you need a working TeX
installation including jadetex.
1.3. Homepage
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/dbsli
de.html
1.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (c) Markus Hoenicka 2000
This software may be distributed under the same terms as Jade.
2. DocBook slides
2.1. General Description
Norman Walsh created this DTD (Document Type Definition) as a
customization of his "Simplified DocBook XML DTD" (see
http://nwalsh.com/slides/). Included are XSL stylesheets for
producing HTML output.
2.1.1. Example
Example 2.2. DocBook slides Example
DocBook slides ExampleMichaelWiedmann2001-06-202001Michael WiedmannThis is a very simple example for the use
of the new DocBook slides DTD (V2.0a1) and
accompanying XSL stylesheets.
This is the frames
version, but there is also an XSL stylesheet
for a non-framed version.
A very simple stylesheet for converting to
Formatting Objects for further
procession using a FO-Processor is also included.
Legal NoticeSome legal noticeFirst Slideitem 1item 2item 3Second Slideterm 1description 1term 2description 2term 3description 3
See Figure 2.1, "slides example: title page in Netscape" and
Figure 2.2, "slides example: first page in Netscape".
Figure 2.1. slides example: title page in Netscape
slides example: title page in Netscape
Figure 2.2. slides example: first page in Netscape
slides example: first page in Netscape
2.2. Requirements
2.2.1. Mandatory
Because slides are a customization of the Simplified DocBook
XML DTD you need to install this package too (not necessarily
because the package contains a flattended version of the
slides DTD).
To process the XML slide files an XSLT processor like XT,
Saxon, xsltproc etc. is necessary.
2.3. Homepage
http://nwalsh.com/slides/index.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/
2.4. Copyright and License
[DocBook is] Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998,
1999 HaL Computer Systems, Inc., O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.,
ArborText, Inc., Fujitsu Software Corporation, and the
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards (OASIS).
Same license as DocBook:
Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute the DocBook
DTD and its accompanying documentation for any purpose and
without fee is hereby granted in perpetuity, provided that
the above copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all
copies. The copyright holders make no representation about
the suitability of the DTD for any purpose. It is provided
"as is" without expressed or implied warranty.
3. latex2slides
3.1. General Description
"Latex2slides is a simple graphical program that produces a
set of HTML/JPEG slides from a TeX or LaTeX source. Each
Postscript page is converted to a JPEG image using
ImageMagick's convert. The program then makes one HTML page
for each JPEG (or slide), and an index.html page. As a result,
each page in your slide presentation corresponds to one of the
Postscript pages you would obtain from the LaTeX source. "
3.1.1. Example
Any LaTeX source may be used. The output is eventually
converted into one JPEG image per page (within HTML wrapper):
latex -> dvips -> convert. Actually this program just
automates this process and creates appropriate HTML files
including an index page.
3.2. Requirements
3.2.1. Mandatory
* Python 1.5.2
* ImageMagick 4.2.9
* Tcl/Tk 8.0
* Ghostscript 5.50
3.3. Homepage
http://udel.edu/~lmilano/latex2slides/
3.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 2001 Leo Milano
GPL
Chapter 3. Other Solutions
Table of Contents
1 DFBPoint
2 mechapoint
3 mgp - MagicPoint
This chapter lists tools which generate output formats other
than PDF and/or HTML.
1. DFBPoint
1.1. General Description
"DFBPoint is a simple presentation viewer that uses the
DirectFB graphics library to draw to the Linux framebuffer "
"The presentation is defined in an XML file (as described
below) and refers to external data (images, fonts) via
relative or absolute filenames. Relative filenames are
interpreted relative to the directory the XML file lives. "
1.1.1. Example
Example 3.1. DFBPoint Example
DFBPointDFBPoint is a slide viewer for presentationsSlides are defined in a simple XML syntaxDirectFB is used for fast renderingDFBPointForeground and background colors can be setper slide or per lineVarious font encodings are supported.Here are some strange letters: �������DFBPointSupports background imagesand arbitrarily placed images or videoswilber_stoned.pngwilber_stoned.pngEffectsSlides can slide in ...Effects... from all directions ...Effects... or fade in ...Effects... or both.ActionsCommands can be bound to function keysPress F1 to start df_neoPress F2 to start df_andidf_neodf_andi
1.2. Requirements
1.2.1. Mandatory
* Linux with framebuffer device
* DirectFB version 0.9.11 or newer
* GLib version 2.0.0 or newer
1.3. Homepage
http://www.directfb.org/dfbpoint.xml
1.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 2001,2002 convergence integrated media GmbH
GPL
2. mechapoint
2.1. General Description
"This is mechapoint, my simple presentation player written in
C++. Mechapoint uses an XML file format, and displays it's
graphics using Evas, the very funky, optionally
OpenGL-accelerated canvas library from the Enlightenment
project. "
2.1.1. Example
Example 3.2. mechapoint Example
This is a paragraph of foo. It contains quite a lot of
information about foo and bar.
Para 2Another para :)Welcome to Mechapoint!Welcome to Mechapoint, a simple presentation program
for Unix/Linux systems.
Mechapoint reads presentation files, which are formatted
in an XML format, and displays them using an Evas canvas.
By harnessing the powerful display technology of Evas,
Mechapoint allows you to create impressive graphical
presentations with ease. Also, using XML allows you to use
standard tools like XSLT to streamline your workload.
normal bitspecial bit
more normal bits
= bullet 1
2.2. Requirements
2.2.1. Mandatory
* Evas
* Ecore
* libxml2
* libxslt
2.3. Homepage
http://linuxgamers.net/lsd/mechapoint/
2.4. Copyright and License
Copyright 2002 lsd@linuxgamers.net
LGPL
3. mgp - MagicPoint
3.1. General Description
"Magic Point is an X11 based presentation tool. It is designed
to make simple presentations easy while to make complicated
presentations possible. Its presentation file (whose suffix is
typically .mgp) is just text so that you can create
presentation files quickly with your favorite editor (e.g.
Emacs, vi). "
3.1.1. Example
Example 3.3. mgp Example
%include "default.mgp"
%deffont "standard" tfont "Apgabk.TTF"
%deffont "standard" tfont "trebuc.ttf"
%deffont "standard" tfont "Ressurec.ttf"
%page
%nodefault
%font "standard"
%back "white"
%center
%image "openl2.ppm"
%size 2, fore "black"
...
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%page
%nodefault
%left
%font "standard"
%size 5, fore "black"
Die Debian Geschichte:
%right
%image "logo-50.jpg", image "debian.jpg"
%left, size 4, fore "black"
� Projektstart durch Ian Murdock und andere im August 1993
(Version 0.01...0.90)
� in dieser Zeit gab es nur eine Handvoll Entwickler
� Die offiziellen Versionen:
%size 3
- v1.1 ("buzz"): Juni 1996 (474 Pakete)
- v1.2 ("rex"): Dezember 1996 (848 Pakete)
- v1.3 ("bo"): Juli 1997 (974 Pakete)
- v2.0 ("hamm"): Juli 1998 (>1500 Pakete)
- v2.1 ("slink"): M�rz 1999 (~2250 Pakete)
- v2.2 ("potato"): August 2000 (>4000 Pakete)
- v2.2 r2 ("potato"): Dezember 2000 (>4000 Pakete)
- v2.3 ("woody"): ??? (bisher fast 6200 Pakete)
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
See Figure 3.1, "mgp example in Acrobat Reader".
Figure 3.1. mgp example in Acrobat Reader
mgp example in Acrobat Reader
3.2. Requirements
Nothing special.
3.3. Homepage
http://www.mew.org/mgp/
3.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 1997 and 1998 WIDE Project.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with
or without modification, are permitted provided that the
following conditions are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the
above copyright notice, this list of conditions
and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the
above copyright notice, this list of conditions
and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. Neither the name of the project nor the names of its
contributors may be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without specific
prior written permission.
3.5. Special Notes
See http://puchol.com/cpg/software/mgp/ for some examples of
templates for mgp.
Chapter 4. Todo
Table of Contents
1 Active-DVI
2 Combined Slidemaker
3 ConTeXt
4 elpres
5 gpresent
6 HavenPoint
7 ImPress
8 Java Power Presenter - JPP
9 JackSVG
10 LyX
11 marSLIDE
12 mozPoint
13 Orator
14 pdfslide
15 pdfwin
16 Pointless
17 powerdot
18 PPPSlides
19 Prestimel
20 pylize
21 Pyslide
22 S5
23 screen.sty
24 Slidemaker
25 SlideML
26 slides
27 slides.sh
28 Slideshow
29 talk
30 TeX4ht: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
31 TPP Text Presentation Program
32 Utopia PDF Presentations Bundle
33 WML - Website META Language
34 xdvipresent
35 XSLies
This chapter lists tools which I haven't had time to evaluate
yet. Feel free to email me your contribution!
1. Active-DVI
1.1. General Description
"Active-DVI is a DVI previewer and a programmable presenter
for slides written in LaTeX. "
1.2. Requirements
Objective Caml 3.04 or higher needed to compile the sources.
1.3. Homepage
http://pauillac.inria.fr/activedvi/
1.4. Copyright and License
Copyright 2001, 2002 INRIA all rights reserved.
GNU LGPL
2. Combined Slidemaker
2.1. General Description
"The tool I propose is a collection of XSLT stylesheets with
four different "entry points" (ie, main, top level templates,
all others serving as "utilities" for the run-time). Depending
on the entry point, the same source file can be transformed
into: 1. A series of XHTML (note the 'X'!) slides, linked into
a sequence. This is a more "modern" version of the old
slidemaker, but using XSLT instead of a perl hack. 2. One
single XHTML file, including all the slides, and prepared for
the CSS2 "projection" mode usage. The output of each slide is
essentially identical to the individual slides of the previous
alternative, but everything is bound to one file. 3. A series
of SVG slides, linked into a sequence. 4. One single SVG file,
using an SVG animation tricks to step through the individual
slides."
2.2. Requirements
XSLT processor
2.3. Homepage
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/Presentations/xsltSlidema
ker/
2.4. Copyright and License
Copyright 1994-2003 W3C
?
3. ConTeXt
3.1. General Description
tbd.
3.2. Requirements
tbd.
3.3. Homepage
http://www.pragma-ade.com
3.4. Copyright and License
Copyright PRAGMA ADE
GPL
4. elpres
4.1. General Description
"Elpres is a simple class for writing presentations to be
shown on screen or beamer. It is derived from LaTeX's article
class."
4.1.1. Example
Example 4.1. elpres Example
\documentclass[pdftex,12pt]{elpres}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{pifont}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{blue}{rgb}{0,0,0.7}
\usepackage[document]{ragged2e}
\RaggedRight
\raggedright
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\vspace*{9mm}
\begin{center} \Huge
\bfseries \textcolor{blue}{Title of a presentation written with the \\
\texttt{elpres} class}
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\large
Author\\[1ex]Institution
\end{center}
\end{titlepage}
\begin{psli}[Title]
The first page
\begin{citemize}
\item One
\item Two
\end{citemize}
\begin{cenumerate}
\item the first enumerated item
\item the second enumerated item
\end{cenumerate}
\begin{cdescription}
\item [One] described item
\item [Another] described item
\end{cdescription}
\end{psli}
\begin{rsli}
The second page
\end{rsli}
\end{document}
4.2. Requirements
fancyhdr and geometry.
4.3. Homepage
http://people.freenet.de/vkiefel/latex.html
4.4. Copyright and License
Copyright 2004 Volker Kiefel
LPPL
5. gpresent
5.1. General Description
"gpresent consists of a macro package present.tmac for use
with groff and a postprocessor presentps for manipulation of
the PostScript output of groff. "
5.2. Requirements
* groff (version 1.18.1 dated Oct 3, 2002 or higher/later)
with the mm macros (included with groff) -- groff.ffii.org
* perl (version 5.x)
* ps2pdf
5.3. Homepage
http://www.science.uva.nl/~bobd/useful/gpresent/
5.4. Copyright and License
Copyright Bob Diertens
GPL
6. HavenPoint
6.1. General Description
"HavenPoint is an open source application that generates PDF
slide presentations from XML source files. It is based on the
PythonPoint demo application included with ReportLab,
available from http://www.reportlab.com/. "
6.2. Requirements
6.2.1. Mandatory
Python 1.5.2 or later
ReportLab
6.3. Homepage
http://havenrock.com/downloads/havenpoint.html
6.4. Copyright and License
Copyright 2001 Matt Gushee
GPL ?
7. ImPress
7.1. General Description
"ImPress is a WYSIWYG layout program designed especially for
Linux. It allows you to create presentations and Postscript
documents using fully scalable graphics similar to programs
like Macromedia Freehand, Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator and
Visio. It is different from raster graphic packages like gimp,
Adobe PhotoShop and Jasc's PaintShop Pro in that it deals with
graphical objects which can be manipulated on a canvas rather
than just layers of paint. "
7.2. Requirements
tbd.
7.3. Homepage
http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/impress/
7.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 1994-2000 Christopher J. Cox
tbd.
8. Java Power Presenter - JPP
8.1. General Description
"The Java Power Presenter enables you to define
PowerPoint-like foils in LaTeX. It offers you a
platformindependent way to build presentations and makes it
possible to reuse all your previously written LaTeX code. You
don't have to convert or rewrite the written text and formulas
and can preserve all your layout. "
8.2. Requirements
Java 2 Version 1.3.0 or higher
8.3. Homepage
http://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/~tehm/jpp/
8.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 1999 by T.Ehm
License ?
9. JackSVG
9.1. General Description
"JackSVG is a program which allows you to create SVG slide
presentations. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an open
technology from the W3C for describing vector graphics on the
Web. JackSVG allows you to create presentations that you can
publish on the Web and distribute freely - without requiring
your audience to have proprietary presentation software to
view it. "
9.2. Requirements
tbd.
9.3. Homepage
http://titanium.dstc.edu.au/xml/jacksvg/
9.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, DSTC Pty Ltd.
DSTC Public License (DPL)
10. LyX
10.1. General Description
tbd.
10.2. Requirements
tbd.
10.3. Homepage
http://www.lyx.org
10.4. Copyright and License
tbd.
11. marSLIDE
11.1. General Description
tbd.
11.2. Requirements
11.2.1. Mandatory
LaTeX2e
11.3. Homepage
http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~wgm/WARM/slides/
11.4. Copyright and License
Copyright 2000,2001 Wendy G. McKay, Ross R. Moore
LPPL
12. mozPoint
12.1. General Description
"MozPoint is a presentation library (of CSS and JS) that can
be used to make simple but elegant presentations using the
browser as a platform for rendering presentation content. With
kiosks mode this can do a pretty decent job."
12.2. Requirements
12.2.1. Mandatory
12.3. Homepage
http://mozpoint.mozdev.org/index.html
12.4. Copyright and License
Copyright 2000-2004 mozPoint
MPL
13. Orator
13.1. General Description
"Orator is a set of scripts, written in PHP and using the
Horde framework, to define and export XML-based presentations
to a variety of formats."
13.2. Requirements
13.2.1. Mandatory
PHP
13.3. Homepage
http://www.horde.org/orator/
13.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 The Horde Project.
Propiertary license, but in general redistributable.
14. pdfslide
14.1. General Description
" "
14.2. Requirements
14.2.1. Mandatory
LaTeX2e
14.3. Homepage
http://www.river-valley.com/tug/
14.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 1999, C. V. Radhakrishnan
LPPL
15. pdfwin
15.1. General Description
"The pdfwin package can be used for presentations on
conferences or seminars. The package provides three prefined
windows (e.g. text window and navigation panel) which are
widely customizable. "
15.2. Requirements
15.2.1. Mandatory
LaTeX2e
15.3. Homepage
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~muehlich/tex/texindex.html
15.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 2001,02,03 Matthias M�hlich
LPPL
16. Pointless
16.1. General Description
"Pointless is a presentation tool primarily targeted at the
un*x world. Presentations are made using a simple
markup-language (best described as a mix between TeX and Pod,
and affectionately known as "The Pointless Language"). The
resulting slideshow is rendered using FreeType and OpenGL for
optimal visual quality. Hardware accelerated OpenGL is highly
recommended but not required in order to run pointless. The
pointless tool is designed in an extensible way, allowing the
user to make simple presentations with minimal effort, yet
providing for more complicated presentations through the
inclusion (or, if necessary, coding) of extension modules. "
16.2. Requirements
16.3. Homepage
http://pointless.dk/index.php
16.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 2002 Peter Andreasen, Christian T�nsberg, Jacob
Weismann
GNU GPL
17. powerdot
17.1. General Description
"powerdot is a presentation class for LaTeX that allows for
the quick and easy development of professional presentations.
It comes with many tools that enhance presentations and aid
the presenter. Examples are automatic overlays, personal notes
and a handout mode. To view a presentation, DVI, PS or PDF
output can be used. A powerful template system is available to
easily develop new styles. "
17.1.1. Example
Example 4.2. powerdot Example
\documentclass{powerdot}
\pdsetup{
lf=A simple example,
rf=Hendri Adriaens and Christopher Ellison
}
\title{A simple example}
\author{Hendri Adriaens \and Christopher Ellison}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{slide}{A simple example}
\begin{itemize}
\item Overlays \pause
\item are very \pause
\item simple
\end{itemize}
\end{slide}
\end{document}
Figure 4.1. powerdot example
powerdot example
17.2. Requirements
The list of mandatory packages can be found in the PDF
documentation of the powerdot class.
17.3. Homepage
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/
17.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 2005 Hendri Adriaens and Christopher Ellison
LPPL
18. PPPSlides
18.1. General Description
tbd.
18.2. Requirements
tbd.
18.3. Homepage
http://pax.st.usm.edu/~kolibal/pppslides_html/pppslides.html
18.4. Copyright and License
tbd.
19. Prestimel
19.1. General Description
"PresTiMeL is a tool to create presentations from a XML-file.
For each slide, PresTiMeL will create one (or a set of) HTML
file(s), which can be shown in a Web browser of your choice.
Cascading Style Sheets are used to provide the minor details
of text styling, font, and color. "
19.2. Requirements
tbd.
19.3. Homepage
http://oeh.tu-graz.ac.at/prestimel/
19.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Bernhard Trummer
GPL
20. pylize
20.1. General Description
"pylize is a Python script that makes the creation of
on-screen presentations a matter of a few minutes. It
generates a template master document, which you can edit with
your favourite text or HTML editor. The master document is
then processed by pylize to generate HTML files for every
slide plus a file for the table of contents. You can view the
presentation with any CSS-capable webbrowser. "
20.2. Requirements
HTMLgen
Optionally: Python Imaging Library (PIL)
20.3. Homepage
http://www.chrisarndt.de/en/software/pylize/index.html
20.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 2002 Christopher Arndt
GPL
21. Pyslide
21.1. General Description
"Pyslide is a tiny program to make presentations. It is
written in Python and uses SDL (through pygame), so
(theorycally) it can be used in any platform. "
21.2. Requirements
Python
PyGame
21.3. Homepage
http://www.hispalinux.es/~setepo/pyslide/index.html
21.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Ayose Cazorla Le�n
GPL
22. S5
22.1. General Description
"S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and
JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show
and have a printer-friendly version as well. The markup used
for the slides is very simple, highly semantic, and completely
accessible. Anyone with even a smidgen of familiarity with
HTML or XHTML can look at the markup and figure out how to
adapt it to their particular needs. Anyone familiar with CSS
can create their own slide show theme. It's totally simple,
and it's totally standards-driven. "
22.2. Requirements
22.3. Homepage
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
22.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Eric A. and Kathryn S. Meyer
Public Domain
23. screen.sty
23.1. General Description
The package contains "three small packages, screen.sty,
manuscript.sty, and poster.sty. The screen package is used to
format the output for a screen presentation; the manuscript
package for a manuscript; and the poster package for a poster.
"
23.2. Requirements
TeXPower
23.3. Homepage
http://www.ms.uky.edu/~allen/
23.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 2004 David M. Allen
?
24. Slidemaker
24.1. General Description
"Slidemaker is utility to create a (computer) slideshow in PDF
format."
24.2. Requirements
24.3. Homepage
http://slidemaker.sourceforge.net
24.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 2002 Gijsbert Stoet
GPL
25. SlideML
25.1. General Description
"SlideML is a XML format for Slideshows. You need CSS, XSLT or
any other programming language to transform it in some human
enjoyable form."
25.2. Requirements
25.3. Homepage
http://slideml.org/
25.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) ? ?
Creative Commons License (Attribution License)
26. slides
26.1. General Description
Slides use a bigger base font size, suitable for presentation
material, and the slides class provides an easy way to make
overlays -- a slide which can be laid on top of a previous
slide to fill in certain gaps.
26.1.1. Example
For an example see
http://www.colorado.edu/ITS/docs/latex/Unix/examples/sampleC.h
tml
26.2. Requirements
Should be part of any TeX installation.
26.3. Homepage
tbd.
26.4. Copyright and License
LPPL
26.5. Special Notes
The LaTeX project announced in LaTeX News 11 on June 1999,
that the class will be unsupported in the future.
27. slides.sh
27.1. General Description
"slides.sh is a shell script written with the intention of
generate HTML slides simply with tools you can put on one
floppy (for example a GNU/Linux Slackware rescue-like floppy).
"
27.2. Requirements
27.2.1. Mandatory
sh, expr, grep, head, ln, mkdir, printf, sed, tail
27.2.2. Optional
tar, gzip
27.3. Homepage
http://fx.lebail.free.fr/slides.sh/
27.4. Copyright and License
Copyright � 2000,2001 Francois-Xavier Le Bail
GPL
28. Slideshow
28.1. General Description
"Slideshow is a DrScheme-supported language for creating and
running slide presentations. It's an alternative to PowerPoint
(which offers little abstraction), HTML generation (which is
inflexible), or PDF generation (which is static and often
displays poorly)."
28.2. Requirements
PLT MrEd or DrScheme
28.3. Homepage
http://www.plt-scheme.org/software/slideshow/
28.4. Copyright and License
tbd.
29. talk
29.1. General Description
"The talk document class allows you to create slides for
screen presentations or printing on transparencies. It also
allows you to print personal notes for your talk. You can
create overlays and display structure information (current
section / subsection, table of contents) on your slides. The
main feature that distinguishes talk from other presentation
classes like beamer or prosper is that it allows the user to
define an arbitrary number of slide styles and switch between
these styles from slide to slide. This way the slide layout
can be adapted to the slide content. For example, the title or
contents page of a talk can be given a slightly different
layout than the other slides."
29.2. Requirements
LaTeX packages: amsmath, graphicx, pgf, multido, hyperref.
29.3. Homepage
CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/talk
29.4. Copyright and License
Copyright 2005 Martin Wiebusch
LPPL
30. TeX4ht: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
30.1. General Description
"TeX4ht is a highly configurable TeX-based authoring system
for producing hypertext. It interacts with TeX-based
applications through style files and postprocessors, leaving
the processing of the source files to the native TeX compiler.
Consequently, TeX4ht can handle the features of TeX-based
systems in general, and of the LaTeX and AMS style files in
particular. "
30.2. Requirements
30.2.1. Mandatory
30.2.2. Optional
30.3. Homepage
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn.html
30.4. Copyright and License
Copyright � ? Eitan M. Gurari
LPPL (modified: it is allowed to modify the files without
changing their names, if the signatures of the files are
modified
31. TPP Text Presentation Program
31.1. General Description
"tpp stands for text presentation program and is an
ncurses-based presentation tool. The presentation can be
written with your favorite editor in a simple description
format and then shown on any text terminal that is supported
by ncurses - ranging from an old VT100 to the Linux
framebuffer to an xterm. "
31.1.1. Example
Example 4.3. TPP Example
--author Andreas Krennmair
--title Test for TPP
--date today
--withborder
This is the abstract, which is pretty cool.
It consists of several lines.
--newpage
--withborder
This is the next page, which also consists of
several lines
blubber. bla.
--newpage
--withborder
asdf jkl� asdf jkl� asdf jkl� asdf jkl�
31.2. Requirements
31.2.1. Mandatory
Ruby 1.8, ncurses, ncurses-ruby
31.2.2. Optional
31.3. Homepage
http://www.ngolde.de/tpp/
31.4. Copyright and License
Copyright � 2004 Andreas Krennmair, Nico Golde
GPL
32. Utopia PDF Presentations Bundle
32.1. General Description
"The Utopia PDF Presentations Bundle provides accessories
which facilitate the production of stunning PowerPoint-like
presentations from (La)TeX source. The process requires
generation of PDF by way of PostScript, as some effects
(notably "builds/incremental display") are implemented by
post-processing the PostScript generated from TeX. "
"The heart of the Bundle is two LaTeX packages and the
PostScript post-processor; the Bundle also contains
documentation, examples and other support materials. (The
plain TeX system which formed the foundation for the Bundle is
being rewritten to match the new functionalities introduced
during development of the LaTeX version; it will be added to
the Bundle for the benefit of die-hard plain TeXers sometime
in the future.) "
32.2. Requirements
(La)TeX installation
32.3. Homepage
http://www.utopiatype.com.au/products/ubundle.html
32.4. Copyright and License
Copyright 1999-2002 Utopia Precision Typesetting
Propiertary license
33. WML - Website META Language
33.1. General Description
"WML is a free HTML generation toolkit for Unix, internally
consisting of 9 independent languages. The main idea of WML is
a sequential filtering scheme where each language provides one
of 9 processing passes. So WML reads an input file, applies
passes 1-9 (or optionally only the passes specified) and
finally produces one or more output files. "
33.2. Requirements
Perl5
33.3. Homepage
http://www.engelschall.com/sw/wml/
33.4. Copyright and License
Copyright 1996-2000, Ralf S. Engelschall
Copyright 1999-2000, Denis Barbier
GPL
34. xdvipresent
34.1. General Description
"xdvipresent provides glue for developing slides for on-line
presentation using LaTeX and xdvi, and a (portable) computer
with a XGA (1024x768), SVGA (800x600), VGA (640x480), or SUN
(1152x900) screen running Xwindows.The idea is that you
prepare the slides in LaTeX with the enclosed style file(s)
and you use the xdvipresent script (which simply calls xdvi
with an appropriate set of options) to show the slides on the
screen. The package also provides tips on preparing
presentations with xdvi, for starting xdvipresent from emacs,
etc."
34.2. Requirements
tbd.
34.3. Homepage
http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Software/xdvipresent_html/xdvipresen
t.html
34.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) Manuel Hermenegildo and The CLIP Group
License ?
35. XSLies
35.1. General Description
"XSLies [pronounced: "excess lies"] is a simple XSLT
application for making Web-based presentations. It uses a
simple XML input file to generate an HTML slideset. The
resulting layout is completely customizable using XSL and CSS.
"
35.2. Requirements
tbd.
35.3. Homepage
http://lempinen.net/sami/xslies/
35.4. Copyright and License
Copyright (C) 2001 Sami Lempinen
The Apache License
Chapter 5. Hints and Tricks
Table of Contents
1 PDF
This chapter lists some hints and tricks which might be useful
in creating online presentations.
1. PDF
1.1. Start other programs from within a PDF presentation
Herman Bruyninckx submitted the following macros to start up
movies or other programs from within a PDF presentation made
with LaTeX:
The key is to write a little shell-script and launch it from
within pdflatex. In the shell-script you should simply call a
standard unix tool for viewing video files, e.g.:
mpeg_play -controls off -dither color -position +128+96 video.mpg
Name this script for example videoscript.sh and make it
executable. Defining the following two new commands in
pdflatex,
\newcommand{\pdflaunch}[1] {\pdfpageattr{/AA << /O << /S /Launch /F (#1
) >>>>}}
\newcommand{\pdflaunchlink}[2]{%
\pdfannotlink attr{/Border [0 0 0]} user{/Subtype /Link /A << %
/S /Launch /F (#1) >>}%
\pdfliteral{0 1 0 0 k}%
{#2}\pdfliteral{0 0 0 1 k}\pdfendlink%
}
you have either the possibility to launch this script
instantly with a new slide:
\pdflaunch{videoscript.sh}
or after pressing a special link defined by:
\pdflaunchlink{videoscript.sh}{Start video}
Don't forget to kill the video application when it is not
needed anymore. For this purpose again define a little script
e.g.:
killall mpeg_play
and call it as mentioned above.
Uwe Brauer submitted the following hint how to call shell
scripts form within PDF using a recent version of hyperref:
\href{run:matlabcall2}{\fcolorbox{black}{mygrey}{Euler-estab}}
The magic is the string run: which is followed by the name of
the script.
Appendix A. History, Credits, Remarks, and License
Table of Contents
1 History
2 Credits
3 About this Document
4 GNU Free Documentation License
1. History
The idea for a document covering the topic of creating screen
based or online presentations came to my mind around spring
2000. At that time I had a few interesting discussions with
Werner Heuser, who was also planning such a documentation
project. Unfortunately both of us didn't find the spare time
to begin with this project until recently.
Quite a few of the listed tools are taken from Werner Heuser's
"Linux on the Road; A Guide to Laptops and Mobile Devices".
The printed version contains an additional chapter "Lectures,
Presentations, Animations and Slideshows", which covers also
most of the solutions presented in this documentation.
In March 2001 I had to prepare a talk again and began once
more to look around for a possible tool chain. Finally this
was the reason I started writing this documentation in the
hope it will be useful for others in similar situations.
In March 2004 I decided to convert the source files to DocBook
XML (V4.3) and to generate the various output formats using an
XSLT processor with customized XSL stylesheets.
Because I get more and more emails complaining about incorrect
sections Pros and Cons I deleted all these sections.
2. Credits
The following people have contributed substantial parts to
this document:
* Hendri Adriaens
* Uwe Brauer
* Herman Bruyninckx
* Carlos Enrique Carleos Artime
* Michael Ebner
* Victor Eijkhout
* Sven Guckes
* Jochen Hein
* Werner Heuser
* Jan Hlavacek
* Ludger Humbert
* Andrius Kurtinaitis
* Stephane Lentz
* Sebastian Leske
* Hannes Loeffler
* David Mundie
* Rolf Niepraschk
* Hans Fredrik Nordhaug
* Frank Ronneburg
* Herbert Voss
3. About this Document
The source format of this document is DocBook XML (V4.3).
Generation of the various output formats use the following
toolchains controlled by a Makefile:
HTML, TXT
xsltproc (libxml2-2.6.19/libxslt-1.1.14) with DocBook
XSL Stylesheets (V1.69.1) (customized)
PDF
xsltproc (libxml2-2.6.19/libxslt-1.1.14) with DB2LaTeX
XSL Stylesheets (V0.8pre1+20050330) (customized),
pdfLaTeX (3.14159-1.10b), scrbook [2004/09/16 v2.9t
LaTeX2e KOMA document class] of KOMA-Script, and Latin
Modern Type 1 Fonts (V0.92)
3.1. Contributions
Contributions are very welcome! If you know some tool which is
not yet covered in this document or want to contribute
additional information for an already listed solution please
email me your contribution.
3.2. Release News
V0.1.16 05-10-03
+ Added example for section powerdot.
V0.1.15 05-09-04
+ Added section powerdot.
V0.1.14 05-08-06
+ Added section S5.
+ Added section talk.
+ Removed section TextView (which according to it's
author is no longer supported).
V0.1.13 05-01-23
+ Added section screen.sty.
V0.1.12 04-11-04
+ Added section IPE.
V0.1.11 04-10-23
+ Added elpres example.
+ Added section SlideML.
V0.1.10 04-09-20
+ Added section elpres.
V0.1.9 04-09-02
+ Added section Slideshow.
V0.1.8 04-08-07
+ Added section TPP.
V0.1.7 04-07-30
+ Added section mozPoint.
V0.1.6 04-07-21
+ Added section TextView.
+ Switched to DocBook XML V4.3
V0.1.5 04-06-02
+ Added section Slidemaker.
V0.1.4 04-05-21
+ PDF file now optimized/linearized.
+ Added section Orator.
V0.1.3 04-04-19
+ Cleaned up inconsistencies of some names.
V0.1.2 04-04-12
+ Added section Combined Slidemaker.
V0.1.1 04-04-10
+ Version control system changed from CVS to SVN.
+ Added section Pyslides.
+ Corrected minor typos.
V0.1.0 04-03-22
+ Source format switched to DocBook XML (V4.3). Using
DocBook XSL Stylesheets (V1.69.1), and DB2LaTeX XSL
Stylesheets for generating the various output
formats.
+ Omitted all sections Pros and Cons.
V0.0.1 01-03-10
+ Initial release.
4. GNU Free Documentation License
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Version 1.1, March 2000
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