“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

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<slideshow>

  <title>AxKit</title>
  <metadata>
     <speaker>Matt Sergeant</speaker>
     <email>matt@axkit.com</email>
     <organisation>AxKit.com Ltd</organisation>
     <link>http://axkit.com/</link>
     <logo scale="0.4">ax_logo.png</logo>
     <background>redbg.png</background>
  </metadata>

  <slide transition="dissolve">
    <title href="http://www.xml.com/">Introduction</title>
    <point level="1" href="http://xmlperl.com">Perl's XML Capabilities</point>
    <point level="1">A long bullet point line for testing the line
              wrapping capabilities which should make this look OK</point>
    <point level="1">AxKit static sites</point>
    <point level="1">AxKit dynamic sites (XSP)</point>
    <point level="1">Advanced <colour name="red">AxKit</colour></point>
    <source_code>
<color name="blue">Foo!</color>
    </source_code>
  </slide>

  <slide default-transition="replace">
    <title>Table Example</title>
    <table>
        <row>
            <col width="40%">
                <source-code>
Some code;
in the

++ first; # column

that {
  maybe we
  want to comment();
  on...
}
                </source-code>
                <point>and a point here...</point>
                <source-code>followed by more code</source-code>
                <point>and another point</point>
            </col>
            <col width="60%">
                <point>Notice how we did this...</point>
                <point>And how we can add stuff over here!</point>
                <source-code>include &lt;ing.h> //code</source-code>
            </col>
        </row>
    </table>
    <!-- Now some SVG! -->
    <rect x="100" y="100" width="50" height="100" style="stroke: black"/>
    <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="240"/>
    <ellipse cx="100" cy="50" rx="30" ry="60" style="fill: aqua; 
              stroke: red; stroke-width: 5"/>
    <text x="200" y="200" style="stroke: black; fill: none; 
              font: italic 24pt serif">A Cat</text>
  </slide>

  <slideset>
     <title>XML with Perl Introduction</title>

     <slide>
        <title>A very long <i>title that</i> should show how word
              <i>wrapping in the title</i> tag hopefully works 
              properly today</title>
        <point level="1">SAX-like API</point>
        <point level="1">register callback handler methods</point>
        <point level="2">start tag</point>
        <point level="2">end tag</point>
        <point level="2">characters</point>
        <point level="2">comments</point>
        <point level="2">processing instructions</point>
        <source_code>
<?pi here?>
        </source_code>
        <point level="2">... and more</point>
        <point level="1">Non validating XML parser</point>
        <point level="1">dies (throws an exception) on bad XML</point>
     </slide>
     
     <slide>
        <title>XML::Parser code</title>
        <source_code>
my $p = XML::Parser->new(
<i>    Handlers => { 
        Start => \&amp;start_tag, 
        End => \&amp;end_tag,
        # add more handlers here
        });
    </i>
$p->parsefile("foo.xml");

<color name="green">exit(0);</color>

sub start_tag {
  my ($expat, $tag, %attribs) = @_;
  print "Start tag: $tag\n";
}

sub end_tag {
  my ($expat, $tag) = @_;
  print "End tag: $tag\n";
}
        </source_code>
     </slide>
     
     <slide>
     <title>XML::XPath Implementation</title>
     <point level="1">XML::Parser and SAX parsers build an 
              in-memory tree</point>
     <point level="1">Hand-built parser for XPath syntax 
              (rather than YACC based parser)</point>
     <point level="1">Garbage Collection yet still has
              circular references (and works on Perl 5.005)</point>
     <image>pointers.png</image>
     </slide>
     
  </slideset>
  
  <slide>
  <title>Conclusions</title>
  <point level="1" transition="dissolve">Perl and XML are a
              powerful combination</point>
  <point level="1" transition="replace">XPath and XSLT add
              to the mix...</point>
  <point level="1" transition="glitter">AxKit can reduce your
              long term costs</point>
  <point level="2" transition="dissolve">In site re-design</point>
  <point level="2" transition="box">and in content re-purposing</point>
  <point level="1" transition="wipe">Open Source equal to
              commercial alternatives</point>
  <image transition="dissolve">world_map-960.png</image>
  </slide>
  
  <slide>
  <title>Resources and contact</title>
  <point level="1">AxKit: http://axkit.org/</point>
  <point level="1">CPAN: http://search.cpan.org</point>
  <point level="1">libxml and libxslt: http://www.xmlsoft.org</point>
  <point level="1">Sablotron: http://www.gingerall.com</point>
  <point level="1">XPath and XSLT Tutorials: http://zvon.org</point>
  </slide>
  
</slideshow>

See Figure 1.1, “AxPoint example”.

Figure 1.1. AxPoint example

http://axpoint.axkit.org/ (last time checked: 2009-04-23)

Copyright (c) 2001 Matt Sergeant

Artistic License or GPL

“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

CTAN

http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex-beamer (last time checked: 2009-04-24)

Copyright 2003 by Till Tantau

LPPL

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{<some.user@some.net>}}

\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

CTAN

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.

“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

Figure 1.5. HA-prosper example: introduction slide

Figure 1.6. HA-prosper example: welcome slide

http://stuwww.uvt.nl/~hendri/downloads/haprosper.html

HA-prosper is available on CTAN (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ha-prosper.html) and in MiKTeX (http://www.miktex.org).

Copyright (c) 2003 by Hendri Adriaens

LPPL

“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

http://www.solmech.tu-darmstadt.de/user/emmel/ (last time checked: 2009-04-26)

Copyright (c) 2000 by Thomas Emmel

LPPL

The bundle is placed under the LaTeX Project 
Public License (macros/latex/base/lppl.txt on CTAN). 
          

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

<ipe version="60020" creator="Ipe 6.0 preview 20" media="0 0 800 600">
<info created="D:20041029041427" modified="D:20041029042906" title="Sample IPE Presentation" author="Egon Ipse" subject="IPE presentation" keywords="IPE, pdflatex, screen presentation" pagemode="fullscreen"/>
<ipestyle name="presentation">
<linewidth name="normal" value="1.2"/>
<linewidth name="heavier" value="2.4"/>
<linewidth name="fat" value="3.6"/>
<linewidth name="ultrafat" value="6"/>
...
<text stroke="black" pos="232 264" type="label" width="17.85" height="20.778" depth="5.79" valign="bottom" transformable="yes" size="normal">$f$</text>
<text stroke="black" pos="416 212" type="minipage" width="352" height="20.778" depth="5.79" valign="top" transformable="yes" size="normal">This line will get an arrow</text>
<mark layer="delta" stroke="black" pos="96 320" shape="2" size="large"/>
</page>
</ipe>

Figure 1.8. IPE example

Ipe (last time checked: 2009-04-24)

Copyright (c) 1993 - 2004 Otfried Cheong

GPL

“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.

8.1.1. 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

http://pdfscreen.sarovar.org/ (last time checked: 2009-04-24)

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. ”

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).

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.

...
% example for PDF pagetransition
\Dissolve

...

\begin{itemize}
\item item 1\pause
\item item 2\pause
\item item 3\pause
\end{itemize}

...

PPower4

GPL

“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. ”

10.1.1. 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

http://sourceforge.net/projects/prosper/ (last time checked: 2009-04-24)

Copyright (c) 2000 Frederic Goualard, all rights reserved.

LPPL

“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. ”

11.1.1. 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 Pennsylvania}
   {\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

Figure 1.12. rayslides example: second page

http://homel.vsb.cz/~rad79/?C=N;O=D (last time checked: 2009-04-26)

Copyright 1998 by Raymond A. McKendall

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.

12.1.1. Example

Example 1.11. PythonPoint Example

\documentclass[a4paper,landscape,headrule]{foils}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" standalone="no" ?> 
<!DOCTYPE presentation SYSTEM "pythonpoint.dtd"> 

<presentation filename='reportlab.pdf'>
 <title>PythonPoint Example</title>
 <author>Michael Wiedmann</author>
 <subject>Reportlab Pythonpoint Example</subject>

 <section name = 'Main'>
  <rectangle x="20" y="20" width="96" height="555" fill="(0,0,0.8)"/>
  <fixedimage  x="20" y="510" width="96" height="64" 
               filename="leftlogo.gif"/>
  <infostring align="right" x="800" y= "36" size="14" >
   &#187;%(title)s, page %(page)s&#171;
  </infostring>
        
  <slide id="Slide001" title="Introduction" effectname='Wipe'>
   <frame x="120" y="72" width="700" height="468" 
          leftmargin="36" rightmargin="36">
    <para style='Heading1'>Welcome to PythonPoint</para>
    <para style='BodyText'>...a library for creating presentation 
     slides.
    </para>
    <para style='BodyText'>
     <i>PythonPoint</i> 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.
    </para>
    <para style='BodyText'>It can be used right now to create 
     slide shows, but will undoubtedly change and evolve. Read on 
     for a tutorial...
    </para>
   </frame>
  </slide>
 </section>
</presentation>

See Figure 1.13, “PythonPoint example: page in Acrobat Reader”.

Figure 1.13. PythonPoint example: page in Acrobat Reader

ReportLab (last time checked: 2009-04-24)

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.

tbd.

TUG

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.

“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... ”

14.1.1. 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

Figure 1.15. slidenotes example: sample page with notes

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~hansm/publications.html (last time checked: 2009-04-24)

Copyright (C) 1993-1996 Hans van der Meer

“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. ”

15.1.1. 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, .3laheight);

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,urcorner 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 information");
bpoint("There's no concept of presentation styles");
bpoint("It generally requires some configuration of ghostscript and metapost, 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, metapost, and dvipdfm");

...
nextfig;
  hyperlabel(breaktowidth("Thanks for sticking to the end. Click on this text to start over.", .5lawidth)(ignore), (.5lawidth, .5laheight), "Start");
endfig;

end

See Figure 1.16, “slideshow example”.

Figure 1.16. slideshow example

MetaPost

ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/slideshow/

Copyright 2001 Patrick McPhee

?

“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. ”

16.1.1. 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

Figure 1.18. TexPower example: partial displayed page 2

http://texpower.sourceforge.net/ (last time checked: 2009-04-26)

Copyright (c) 1999-2002 by Stephan Lehmke

GPL

“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. ”

17.1.1. 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

Figure 1.20. web.sty example: page in Acrobat Reader

http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/webeq.html

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.

“dbslide is a package of files that allows you to create screen presentations, overheads, and handouts from a DocBook SGML document. ”

<!DOCTYPE Book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN">
<book>
 <bookinfo>
  <author>
   <firstname>Michael</firstname>
    <surname>Wiedmann</surname>
    <affiliation>
     <address format="linespecific">mw@miwie.in-berlin.de</address>
    </affiliation>
   </author>
   <title>DocBook dbslide Example</title>
 </bookinfo>
 <chapter>
  <title>Abstract</title>
  <para>A very simple demonstration of dbslide</para>
  <itemizedlist>
   <listitem>
    <para>item 1</para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>item 2</para>
   </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
 </chapter>

 <chapter>
  <title>Key features</title>
  <simplesect>
   <title>Features</title>
   <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
     <para>feature 1</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
     <para>feature 2</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
     <para>feature 3</para>
    </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </simplesect>
 </chapter>
</book>

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/dbslide.html (last time checked: not available as of 2009-04-23)

Copyright (c) Markus Hoenicka 2000

This software may be distributed under the same terms as Jade.

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

<!DOCTYPE slides PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD Slides XML V2.0//EN"
                 "./slides.dtd">

<slides>

  <slidesinfo>
    <title>DocBook <emphasis>slides</emphasis> Example</title>
    <author>
      <firstname>Michael</firstname>
      <surname>Wiedmann</surname>
    </author>
    <date>2001-06-20</date>
    <copyright>
      <year>2001</year>
      <holder>Michael Wiedmann</holder>
    </copyright>
    <abstract>
      <para>This is a very simple example for the use 
        of the new DocBook slides DTD (V2.0a1) and 
        accompanying XSL stylesheets.
      </para>
      <para>This is the <emphasis>frames</emphasis> 
        version, but there is also an XSL stylesheet 
        for a non-framed version.
      </para>
      <para>A very simple stylesheet for converting to
        <emphasis>Formatting Objects</emphasis> for further
        procession using a FO-Processor is also included.
      </para>
    </abstract>
    <legalnotice>
      <title>Legal Notice</title>
      <para>Some legal notice</para>
    </legalnotice>
  </slidesinfo>

  <foil>
    <title>First Slide</title>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>item 1</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>item 2</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>item 3</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </foil>

  <foil>
    <title>Second Slide</title>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>term 1</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>description 1</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>term 2</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>description 2</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>term 3</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>description 3</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </foil>

</slides>

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

Figure 2.2. slides example: first page in Netscape

http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/ (last time checked: 2009-04-23)

[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.

“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. ”

http://udel.edu/~lmilano/latex2slides/ (last time checked: not available as of 2009-04-23)

Copyright (C) 2001 Leo Milano

GPL

“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. ”

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>

<slides bgcolor="#222266" fgcolor="#9999FF"
        bullet="bullet.png"
        face="decker.ttf" size="42"
        x="40" y="40"
        screen_width="1024" screen_height="768">

  <slide>
    <header fgcolor="#ff00cc" size="96">DFBPoint</header>
    <text></text>
    <text>DFBPoint is a slide viewer for presentations</text>
    <text></text>
    <text>Slides are defined in a simple XML syntax</text>
    <text>DirectFB is used for fast rendering</text>
  </slide>

   <slide bgcolor="#333333" fgcolor="#0033cc">
    <header fgcolor="#ff00cc" size="80">DFBPoint</header>
    <text>Foreground and background colors can be set</text>
    <text fgcolor="#22FF22">per slide or per line</text>
    <text></text>
    <text>Various font encodings are supported.</text>
    <text>Here are some strange letters: ÄÖÜäöüß</text>
  </slide>

  <slide bgimage="bg.png">
    <header fgcolor="#ff00cc" size="80">DFBPoint</header>
    <text>Supports background images</text>
    <text>and arbitrarily placed images or videos</text>
    <image x="20" y="300">wilber_stoned.png</image>
    <image x="200" y="300" width="400">wilber_stoned.png</image>
  </slide>

  <slide effect="slide top" bgimage="bg.png">
    <header fgcolor="#220066" size="80">Effects</header>
    <text>Slides can slide in ...</text>
  </slide>

  <slide effect="slide bottom left" bgimage="bg.png">
    <header fgcolor="#220066" size="80">Effects</header>
    <text>... from all directions ...</text>
  </slide>

  <slide effect="blend" bgimage="bg.png">
    <header fgcolor="#220066" size="80">Effects</header>
    <text>... or fade in ...</text>
  </slide>

  <slide effect="slide top right, blend">
    <header fgcolor="#ff00cc" size="80">Effects</header>
    <text>... or both.</text>
  </slide>

  <slide bgimage="bg.png">
    <header fgcolor="#ff00cc" size="80">Actions</header>
    <text>Commands can be bound to function keys</text>
    <listitem size="60">Press F1 to start df_neo</listitem>
    <listitem size="60">Press F2 to start df_andi</listitem>
    <action key="F1">df_neo</action>
    <action key="F2">df_andi</action>
  </slide>

</slides>

http://www.directfb.org/index.php?path=Projects%2FDFBPoint (last time checked: 2009-04-23)

Copyright (C) 2001,2002 convergence integrated media GmbH

GPL

“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. ”

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<mechapoint width="400" height="300">
  <page>
    <rectangle>
      <move x="0" y="0" />
      <resize w="400" h="300" />
      <color r="255" g="255" b="255" a="255" />
    </rectangle> 
    <image filename="flower.png">
      <move x="100" y="50" />
      <resize w="150" h="100" />
      <imagefill w="150" h="100" />
    </image>
    <group>
      <ellipse w="10">
        <move x="52" y="82" />
        <color r="0" g="0" b="0" a="100" />
      </ellipse>
      <ellipse w="10">
        <move x="50" y="80" />
        <color r="255" g="0" b="0" a="255" />
      </ellipse>
    </group>
    <group>
      <text font="notepad" size="30" value="mechafoo!">
        <move x="102" y="82" />
        <color r="0" g="0" b="0" a="80" />
      </text>
      <text font="notepad" size="30" value="mechafoo!">
        <move x="100" y="80" />
        <color r="0" g="0" b="150" a="255" />
      </text>
    </group>
  </page>
  <page>
    <gradient_box>
      <move x="0" y="0" />
      <resize w="400" h="300" />
      <add_color r="100" g="100" b="255" a="255" />
      <add_color r="255" g="255" b="255" a="255" />
    </gradient_box>
    <rectangle>
      <move x="50" y="50" />
      <resize w="300" h="200" />
      <color r="255" g="255" b="255" a="100" />
    </rectangle> 
    <textbox font="notepad" size="15" x="50" y="50" width="300">
      <para post_indent="100" first_indent="0" indent="100">
        This is a paragraph of foo. It contains quite a lot of 
        information about foo and bar.
      </para>
      <para align="centre">Para 2</para>
      <para></para>
      <para align="right">Another para :)</para>
    </textbox>
  </page>
  <page>
    <gradient_box>
      <move x="0" y="0" />
      <resize w="400" h="300" />
      <add_color r="100" g="100" b="255" a="255" />
      <add_color r="255" g="255" b="255" a="255" />
    </gradient_box>
    <textbox font="notepad" size="20" x="20" y="20" width="360">
      <para align="centre">Welcome to Mechapoint!</para>
    </textbox>
    <group>
      <rectangle>
        <move x="21" y="51" />
        <resize w="360" h="2" />
        <color a="100" />
      </rectangle>
      <rectangle>
        <move x="20" y="50" />
        <resize w="360" h="2" />
        <color a="100" />
        <color r="255" g="255" b="255" a="255" />
      </rectangle>
    </group>
    <textbox font="Times_New_Roman" size="10" x="20" y="60" width="360">
      <para>Welcome to Mechapoint, a simple presentation program
        for Unix/Linux systems.
      </para>
      <para>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.
      </para>
      <para>normal bit<font color="#ff00007f">special bit</font>
        more normal bits
      </para>
      <para><font face="Webdings">=</font> bullet 1</para>
    </textbox>
  </page>
</mechapoint>

http://linuxgamers.net/lsd/mechapoint/ (last time checked: 2009-04-23)

Copyright 2002 lsd@linuxgamers.net

LGPL

“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"): März 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

Nothing special.

http://www.mew.org/mgp/ (last time checked: not available as of 2009-04-23)

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.

See http://puchol.com/cpg/software/mgp/ for some examples of templates for mgp.

“Active-DVI is a DVI previewer and a programmable presenter for slides written in LaTeX. ”

Objective Caml 3.04 or higher needed to compile the sources.

Unknown

Copyright 2001, 2002 INRIA all rights reserved.

GNU LGPL

“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.”

XSLT processor

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/Presentations/xsltSlidemaker/ (last checked: 2010-03-27)

Copyright 1994-2003 W3C

?

tbd.

tbd.

http://www.pragma-ade.com (last checked: 2010-03-27)

Copyright PRAGMA ADE

GPL

“A JavaScript library for building modern HTML presentations. deck.js is flexible enough to let advanced CSS and JavaScript authors craft highly customized decks, but also provides templates and themes for the HTML novice to build a standard slideshow.”

https://github.com/imakewebthings/deck.js (last checked: 2011-08-27)

Copyright (c) 2011 Caleb Troughton

Dual licensed under the MIT license and GPL license.

“Elpres is a simple class for writing presentations to be shown on screen or beamer. It is derived from LaTeX's article class.”

\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}

fancyhdr and geometry.

http://freenet-homepage.de/vkiefel/elpres.html (last checked: 2010-03-27)

Copyright 2004 Volker Kiefel

LPPL

“Write your slideshow in HTML, style it with CSS and control it with some jQuery-powered JavaScript. ”

http://markdalgleish.com/projects/fathom/ (last checked: 2011-06-18)

Copyright 2011 Mark Dalgleish

MIT

“gpresent consists of a macro package present.tmac for use with groff and a postprocessor presentps for manipulation of the PostScript output of groff. ”

http://www.science.uva.nl/~bobd/useful/gpresent/ (last checked: 2010-03-27)

Copyright Bob Diertens

GPL

“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/. ”

Unknown

Copyright 2001 Matt Gushee

GPL ?

“This slide show can be driven in the same way as Power Point. To advance to the next slide click anywhere on the page with the mouse, or press the space bar. You can move forwards or backwards through the slides with the Cursor left, Cursor right, Pg Up and Pg Dn keys. The font size is automatically adjusted to match the browser's window width, but you can also adjust it manually using the "S" key for smaller and the "B" key for bigger. You can also use the "<" and ">" keys. Before printing, use the "A" key to toggle between current slide and all slides. Use the "F" key to switch off/on the bottom status line. The "K" key toggles the use of mouse click to advance to the next slide. You can use "C" to show the table of contents and any other key to hide it. Use the "F11" key to toggle the browser's full screen mode. Press "H" to get to this page. Note that not all keys are supported in all browsers, as browsers may reserve some keys for browser control and this varies from one browser to the next.”

http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/ (last checked: 2010-07-27)

Copyright © 2005 W3C

W3C Software Notice And License

“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. ”

tbd.

http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/impress/ (last checked: 2010-03-27)

Copyright (C) 1994-2000 Christopher J. Cox

tbd.

“It's a presentation framework based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions in modern browsers and inspired by the idea behind prezi.com ”

tbd.

https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js (last checked: 2012-02-05)

Copyright 2011-2012 Bartek Szopka.

MIT

“Impressive is a program that displays presentation slides. But unlike OpenOffice.org Impress or other similar applications, it does so with style. Smooth alpha-blended slide transitions are provided for the sake of eye candy, but in addition to this, Impressive offers some unique tools that are really useful for presentations. Read below if you want to know more about these features. Creating presentations for Impressive is very simple: You just need to export a PDF file from your presentation software. This means that you can create slides in the application of your choice and use Impressive for displaying them. If your application does not support PDF output, you can alternatively use a set of pre-rendered image files – or you use Impressive to make a slideshow with your favorite photos.”

Unknown

Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Martin J. Fiedler

GPL

“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. ”

Java 2 Version 1.3.0 or higher

Unknown

Copyright (C) 1999 by T.Ehm

License ?

“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. ”

tbd.

Unknown

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, DSTC Pty Ltd.

DSTC Public License (DPL)

“The package creates slides for on-screen presentations based on PDF features without manipulating TeX’s typesetting process. The presentation flow relies on PDF’s abilities to display content step by step. ”

“Its main features are maximum control of what's going on and thus flexibility (unlike e.g. Beamer) and use of PDF layers, and it works with all formats, except ConTeXt IV (clashes in PDF management). ”

texapi and yax

http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=lecturer (last checked: 2010-09-19)

Copyright (C) 2010, Paul Isambert

LPPL

tbd.

tbd.

http://www.lyx.org (Last ckecked: 2010-03-27)

tbd.

tbd.

http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~wgm/WARM/slides/ (Last ckecked: 2010-03-27)

Copyright 2000,2001 Wendy G. McKay, Ross R. Moore

LPPL

“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.”

http://mozpoint.mozdev.org/index.html (Last ckecked: 2010-03-27)

Copyright 2000-2004 mozPoint

MPL

“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.”

Unknown

Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 The Horde Project.

Propiertary license, but in general redistributable.

“Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX, and it can write markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, PDF, RTF, DocBook XML, OpenDocument XML, ODT, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki markup, groff man pages, and S5 HTML slide shows.”

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ (last checked: 2010-03-27)

Copyright 2006-2008, John MacFarlane

GPL

“ ”

http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfslide (last checked: 2014-11-08)

Copyright (c) 1999, C. V. Radhakrishnan

LPPL

“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. ”

http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~muehlich/tex/texindex.html (last checked: 2010-03-27)

Copyright (C) 2001,02,03 Matthias Mühlich

LPPL

“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. ”

Unknown

Copyright (C) 2002 Peter Andreasen, Christian Tønsberg, Jacob Weismann

GNU GPL

“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. ”

24.1.1. 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

The list of mandatory packages can be found in the PDF documentation of the powerdot class.

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/ (last checked: 2010-03-27)

Copyright (C) 2005 Hendri Adriaens and Christopher Ellison

LPPL

tbd.

tbd.

Unknown

tbd.

“The package offers a collection of simple macros for preparing presentations in Plain TeX. Slide colour and text colour may be set, links between parts of the presentation, to other files, and to web addresses may be inserted. Images may be included easily. ”

tbd.

http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/plain/contrib/present.zip (last checked: 2010-09-19)

Copyright (C) 2010 Matthias Meister

LPPL

“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. ”

tbd.

Unknown

Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Bernhard Trummer

GPL

“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. ”

HTMLgen

Optionally: Python Imaging Library (PIL)

http://www.chrisarndt.de/en/software/pylize/index.html (last checked: 2010-03-28)

Copyright (C) 2002 Christopher Arndt

GPL

“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. ”

Python

PyGame

Unknown

Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Ayose Cazorla León

GPL

“A framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using HTML. Check out the live demo. reveal.js comes with a broad range of features including nested slides, markdown contents, PDF export, speaker notes and a JavaScript API. It's best viewed in a browser with support for CSS 3D transforms but fallbacks are available to make sure your presentation can still be viewed elsewhere. ”

https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js (last checked: 2013-01-05)

Live demo: http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/ (last checked: 2013-01-05)

Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Hakim El Hattab

MIT licensed

“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. ”

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ (last checked: 2010-11-13)

Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Eric A. and Kathryn S. Meyer

Public Domain

“My name is Christian and my profession is web design and programming. When I searched for a browser based slide show system which should answer my personal needs I encountered S5 (Simple Standards-based Slide Show System) from Eric Meyer. This format/program could match my concept of a slide show system best. Since the control panel and the features did not please me at all - I thought it could be a good thing to extend S5 to a higher level. I paid attention with programming especially to get a high compatibility with the Gecko, KHTML/WebKit and Opera engine. That IE thereby would fail was no intention. So I decided to create a second version with less features (no sound & no charts) but fully compatible with IE 6/7. This version is named S5 1.29 a.k.a. one4all. ”

http://www.netzgesta.de/S5/ (last checked: 2010-11-13)

Copyright (C) 2007 Christian Effenberger

Public Domain

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. ”

TeXPower

http://web.as.uky.edu/statistics/users/dmallen/oldpage/latex/latex.html (last time checked: 2010-03-28)

Copyright (C) 2004 David M. Allen

?

“Slide40 is a program for displaying slide presentations in a style inspired by the personal computers of the late 1970's. The display mimics a TV screen showing only 40 columns of text in an all-caps font built from big blocky fuzzy pixels. I created it partly as a joke, and partly as a minimalist artistic reaction to the highly-decorative but meaningless presentations made by abusers of modern presentation software. ”

34.1.1. Example

Figure 4.2. Slide40 example output

Java runtime environment

http://alum.wpi.edu/~tfraser/Software/Slide40/index.html (last checked: 2010-03-28)

Copyright (C) 2007 Timothy Jon Fraser

GPL v3

“Slidemaker is utility to create a (computer) slideshow in PDF format.”

http://slidemaker.sourceforge.net (last checked: 2010-03-28)

Copyright (C) 2002 Gijsbert Stoet

GPL

“SlideML is a XML format for Slideshows. You need CSS, XSLT or any other programming language to transform it in some human enjoyable form.”

http://slideml.org/ (last checked: 2010-03-28)

Copyright (C) ? ?

Creative Commons License (Attribution License)

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.

Should be part of any TeX installation.

Unknown

LPPL

The LaTeX project announced in LaTeX News 11 on June 1999, that the class will be unsupported in the future.

“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). ”

http://fx.lebail.free.fr/slides.sh/ (last checked: 2010-03-28)

Copyright © 2000,2001 Francois-Xavier Le Bail

GPL

“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).”

PLT MrEd or DrScheme

http://www.plt-scheme.org/software/slideshow/

tbd.

“Spork lets you create HTML slideshow presentations easily. It comes with a sample slideshow. All you need is a text editor, a browser and a topic. Spork allows you create an entire slideshow by editing a single file called Spork.slides (by default). Each slide is created using a minimal markup language similar to the syntax used in Kwiki wikis.”

Perl

http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Spork-0.20/lib/Spork.pm (last checked: 2010-03-28)

Copyright (c) 2004, 2005. Brian Ingerson

Artistic License

“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.”

LaTeX packages: amsmath, graphicx, pgf, multido, hyperref.

CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/talk (last checked: 2010-03-28)

Copyright 2005 Martin Wiebusch

LPPL

“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. ”

http://www.tug.org/tex4ht/ (last checked: 2010-03-26)

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

“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. ”

--author Andreas Krennmair <ak@synflood.at>
--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 jklö asdf jklö asdf jklö asdf jklö

http://www.ngolde.de/tpp/ (last checked: 2010-03-28)

Copyright © 2004 Andreas Krennmair, Nico Golde

GPL

“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.) ”

(La)TeX installation

Unknown

Copyright 1999-2002 Utopia Precision Typesetting

Propiertary license

“wiki2beamer is a small tool to create LaTeX Beamer presentations from text files with a wiki-like syntax. Thus, it enables the user to create beamer presentations in a less time-consuming way.”

LaTeX Beamer Package

Python

http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~mren/wiki2beamer/doku.php (last checked: 2010-03-28)

Copyright Michael Rentzsch

GPL

“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. ”

Perl5

http://www.engelschall.com/sw/wml/ (last checked: 2010-03-28)

Copyright 1996-2000, Ralf S. Engelschall

Copyright 1999-2000, Denis Barbier

GPL

“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.”

tbd.

http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Software/xdvipresent_html/xdvipresent.html (last checked: 2010-03-28)

Copyright (C) Manuel Hermenegildo and The CLIP Group

License ?

“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. ”

tbd.

Unknown

Copyright (C) 2001 Sami Lempinen

The Apache License

“xsw is a slideshow presentation tool for all those who are frustrated with Microsoft PowerPoint and its clones. By using xsw, you create your presentation "by hand", using the xsw language described in the manual. ”

SDL

ImageMagick

http://code.google.com/p/xsw/ (last checked: 2010-03-28)

Copyright André Wagner

GPL v3

“This is a patched version of the Takahashi-method XUL slideshow found at http://piro.sakura.ne.jp. With this tool you can create slideshows in minutes. We use it whenever we have to prepare a talk and have no time at all. We enhanced the basic version with: Better CSS and faded background; Company logo; Full-screen image support; Tranlsated help; Removed japanese-specific fonts ”

tbd.

http://blog.seesaw.it/pages/slideshow(last checked: 2010-03-28)

Copyright (C) ?

?

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.