Screen Presentation Tools Tools for Creating Screen or Online Presentations Michael Wiedmann Copyright © 2001 - 2014 Michael Wiedmann Legal Notice Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no invariant sections, with no Front-Cover texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Revision History Revision 0.2.8 2014-11-09 Added reveal.js; corrected URL for pdfslide Revision 0.1.0 2004-03-22 Source format switched to DocBook XML (V4.3). Using DocBook XSL Stylesheets (V1.75.2), and DB2LaTeX XSL Stylesheets (V0.8pre1+20040315) for generating the various output formats. Revision 0.0.1 2001-03-10 Initial release. __________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Preface 1 PDF Based Solutions 1 AxPoint 2 beamer 3 foiltex 4 HA-prosper 5 ifmslide 6 Ipe 7 KeyJnote 8 pdfscreen 9 PPower4 - P^4, PDF Presentation Post Processor 10 Prosper 11 rayslides 12 ReportLab / PythonPoint 13 seminar 14 slidenotes 15 slideshow 16 TeXPower 17 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 deck.js 5 elpres 6 Fathom.js 7 gpresent 8 HavenPoint 9 HTML Slidy 10 ImPress 11 impress.js 12 Impress!ve 13 Java Power Presenter - JPP 14 JackSVG 15 Lecturer 16 LyX 17 marSLIDE 18 mozPoint 19 Orator 20 pandoc 21 pdfslide 22 pdfwin 23 Pointless 24 powerdot 25 PPPSlides 26 Present 27 Prestimel 28 pylize 29 Pyslide 30 reveal.js 31 S5 32 S5 Reloaded 33 screen.sty 34 Slide40 35 Slidemaker 36 SlideML 37 slides 38 slides.sh 39 Slideshow 40 Spork 41 talk 42 TeX4ht: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext 43 TPP Text Presentation Program 44 Utopia PDF Presentations Bundle 45 wiki2beamer 46 WML - Website META Language 47 xdvipresent 48 XSLies 49 xsw 50 XUL Slideshow Toolkit 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 4.2 Slide40 example output 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. If you like this work or find it useful somehow consider donating using http://flattr.com Chapter 1. PDF Based Solutions Table of Contents 1 AxPoint 2 beamer 3 foiltex 4 HA-prosper 5 ifmslide 6 Ipe 7 KeyJnote 8 pdfscreen 9 PPower4 - P^4, PDF Presentation Post Processor 10 Prosper 11 rayslides 12 ReportLab / PythonPoint 13 seminar 14 slidenotes 15 slideshow 16 TeXPower 17 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 AxKit Matt Sergeant matt@axkit.com AxKit.com Ltd http://axkit.com/ ax_logo.png redbg.png Introduction Perl's XML Capabilities A long bullet point line for testing the line wrapping capabilities which should make this look OK AxKit static sites AxKit dynamic sites (XSP) Advanced AxKit Foo! Table Example Some code; in the ++ first; # column that { maybe we want to comment(); on... } and a point here...followed by more codeand another pointNotice how we did this...And how we can add stuff over here!include <ing.h> //code
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XML with Perl Introduction A very long <i>title that</i> should show how word <i>wrapping in the title</i> tag hopefully works properly today SAX-like API register callback handler methods start tag end tag characters comments processing instructions ... and more Non validating XML parser dies (throws an exception) on bad XML XML::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 Implementation XML::Parser and SAX parsers build an in-memory tree Hand-built parser for XPath syntax (rather than YACC based parser) Garbage Collection yet still has circular references (and works on Perl 5.005) pointers.png Conclusions Perl and XML are a powerful combination XPath and XSLT add to the mix... AxKit can reduce your long term costs In site re-design and in content re-purposing Open Source equal to commercial alternatives world_map-960.png Resources and contact AxKit: http://axkit.org/ CPAN: http://search.cpan.org libxml and libxslt: http://www.xmlsoft.org Sablotron: http://www.gingerall.com XPath 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/ (last time checked: 2009-04-23) 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 http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex-beamer (last time checked: 2009-04-24) 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-pros per.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://www.solmech.tu-darmstadt.de/user/emmel/ (last time checked: 2009-04-26) 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 ... $f$ This 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 (last time checked: 2009-04-24) 6.4. Copyright and License Copyright (c) 1993 - 2004 Otfried Cheong GPL 7. KeyJnote Renamed to Impressive. 8. pdfscreen 8.1. 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. 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 pdfscreen example: title page in Acrobat Reader 8.2. Requirements 8.2.1. Mandatory Working LaTeX installation. hyperref.sty 8.2.2. Optional pdfTeX for PDF output. latex2html for HTML output. 8.3. Homepage http://pdfscreen.sarovar.org/ (last time checked: 2009-04-24) 8.4. 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. ” 8.5. 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). 9. PPower4 - P^4, PDF Presentation Post Processor 9.1. 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. 9.1.1. 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} ... 9.2. Requirements 9.2.1. Mandatory JVM or JRE (Java 1.1.6, 1.2; Kaffe >= 1.0.5) 9.2.2. Optional hyperref.sty 9.3. Homepage PPower4 9.4. Copyright and License GPL 10. Prosper 10.1. 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. ” 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 prosper example: page in Acrobat Reader 10.2. Requirements 10.2.1. Mandatory * graphicx.sty, seminar.sty, hyperref.sty * Slide styles need PSTricks and AMSLaTeX (amssymb) * Recent version of Ghostscript (version >= 6.0) to produce PDF 10.2.2. 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. 10.3. Homepage http://sourceforge.net/projects/prosper/ (last time checked: 2009-04-24) 10.4. Copyright and License Copyright (c) 2000 Frederic Goualard, all rights reserved. LPPL 11. rayslides 11.1. 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. ” 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 Pennsy lvania} {\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 11.2. Requirements 11.2.1. Mandatory LaTeX2e 11.2.2. Optional pdfTeX for PDF output. 11.3. Homepage http://homel.vsb.cz/~rad79/?C=N;O=D (last time checked: 2009-04-26) 11.4. Copyright and License Copyright 1998 by Raymond A. McKendall 12. ReportLab / PythonPoint 12.1. 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. 12.1.1. Example Example 1.11. PythonPoint Example \documentclass[a4paper,landscape,headrule]{foils} PythonPoint Example Michael Wiedmann Reportlab 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 12.2. Requirements 12.2.1. Mandatory Python 1.5X 12.3. Homepage ReportLab (last time checked: 2009-04-24) 12.3.1. Additional Links The experimental DTD can be found at: http://www.miwie.org/pythonpoint/ 12.4. 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. 13. seminar 13.1. General Description tbd. 13.2. Requirements 13.2.1. Mandatory Working LaTeX installation. 13.2.2. Optional pdfTeX for PDF output. latex2html for HTML output. 13.2.3. 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). 13.3. Homepage TUG 13.4. 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. 14. slidenotes 14.1. 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... ” 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 slidenotes example: sample page Figure 1.15. slidenotes example: sample page with notes slidenotes example: sample page with notes 14.2. Requirements 14.2.1. Mandatory report.cls, verbatim.sty, graphics.sty or graphicx.sty 14.3. Homepage http://staff.science.uva.nl/~hansm/publications.html (last time checked: 2009-04-24) 14.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 1993-1996 Hans van der Meer 15. slideshow 15.1. 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. ” 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, .3laheigh t); 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,urco rner 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 in formation"); bpoint("There's no concept of presentation styles"); bpoint("It generally requires some configuration of ghostscript and meta post, especially if you use math"); bpoint("The other methods for producing presentations using TeX-family t ools aren't as complicated as I suggested"); bpoint.in("I personally use my own plain-TeX style with just TeX, metapo st, and dvipdfm"); ... nextfig; hyperlabel(breaktowidth("Thanks for sticking to the end. Click on this text to start over.", .5lawidth)(ignore), (.5lawidth, .5laheight), "Sta rt"); endfig; end See Figure 1.16, “slideshow example”. Figure 1.16. slideshow example slideshow example 15.2. Requirements MetaPost 15.3. Homepage ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros /slideshow/ 15.4. Copyright and License Copyright 2001 Patrick McPhee ? 16. TeXPower 16.1. 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. ” 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 TexPower example: title page in Acrobat Reader Figure 1.18. TexPower example: partial displayed page 2 TexPower example: partial displayed page 2 16.2. Requirements 16.2.1. Optional hyperref.sty soul.sty 16.3. Homepage http://texpower.sourceforge.net/ (last time checked: 2009-04-26) 16.4. Copyright and License Copyright (c) 1999-2002 by Stephan Lehmke GPL 17. web 17.1. 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. ” 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 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 17.2. Requirements 17.2.1. Mandatory Working LaTeX installation. 17.3. Homepage http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/webeq.html 17.4. 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 Michael Wiedmann
mw@miwie.in-berlin.de
DocBook dbslide Example
Abstract A very simple demonstration of dbslide item 1 item 2 Key features Features feature 1 feature 2 feature 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/dbslid e.html (last time checked: not available as of 2009-04-23) 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 <emphasis>slides</emphasis> Example Michael Wiedmann 2001-06-20 2001 Michael Wiedmann This 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 Notice Some legal notice First Slide item 1 item 2 item 3 Second Slide term 1 description 1 term 2 description 2 term 3 description 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://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/ (last time checked: 2009-04-23) 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/ (last time checked: not available as of 2009-04-23) 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
DFBPoint
DFBPoint is a slide viewer for presentations Slides are defined in a simple XML syntax DirectFB is used for fast rendering
DFBPoint
Foreground and background colors can be set per slide or per line Various font encodings are supported. Here are some strange letters: ÄÖÜäöüß
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Supports background images and arbitrarily placed images or videos wilber_stoned.png wilber_stoned.png
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Slides can slide in ...
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... or both.
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Commands can be bound to function keys Press F1 to start df_neo Press F2 to start df_andi df_neo df_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/index.php?path=Projects%2FDFBPoint (last time checked: 2009-04-23) 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 2 Another 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/ (last time checked: 2009-04-23) 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"): 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 mgp example in Acrobat Reader 3.2. Requirements Nothing special. 3.3. Homepage http://www.mew.org/mgp/ (last time checked: not available as of 2009-04-23) 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 deck.js 5 elpres 6 Fathom.js 7 gpresent 8 HavenPoint 9 HTML Slidy 10 ImPress 11 impress.js 12 Impress!ve 13 Java Power Presenter - JPP 14 JackSVG 15 Lecturer 16 LyX 17 marSLIDE 18 mozPoint 19 Orator 20 pandoc 21 pdfslide 22 pdfwin 23 Pointless 24 powerdot 25 PPPSlides 26 Present 27 Prestimel 28 pylize 29 Pyslide 30 reveal.js 31 S5 32 S5 Reloaded 33 screen.sty 34 Slide40 35 Slidemaker 36 SlideML 37 slides 38 slides.sh 39 Slideshow 40 Spork 41 talk 42 TeX4ht: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext 43 TPP Text Presentation Program 44 Utopia PDF Presentations Bundle 45 wiki2beamer 46 WML - Website META Language 47 xdvipresent 48 XSLies 49 xsw 50 XUL Slideshow Toolkit 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 Unknown 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/xsltSlidemak er/ (last checked: 2010-03-27) 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 (last checked: 2010-03-27) 3.4. Copyright and License Copyright PRAGMA ADE GPL 4. deck.js 4.1. General Description “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.” 4.2. Requirements * jQuery * Modernizr 4.3. Homepage https://github.com/imakewebthings/deck.js (last checked: 2011-08-27) 4.4. Copyright and License Copyright (c) 2011 Caleb Troughton Dual licensed under the MIT license and GPL license. 5. elpres 5.1. 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.” 5.1.1. 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} 5.2. Requirements fancyhdr and geometry. 5.3. Homepage http://freenet-homepage.de/vkiefel/elpres.html (last checked: 2010-03-27) 5.4. Copyright and License Copyright 2004 Volker Kiefel LPPL 6. Fathom.js 6.1. General Description “Write your slideshow in HTML, style it with CSS and control it with some jQuery-powered JavaScript. ” 6.2. Homepage http://markdalgleish.com/projects/fathom/ (last checked: 2011-06-18) 6.3. Copyright and License Copyright 2011 Mark Dalgleish MIT 7. gpresent 7.1. 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. ” 7.2. 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 7.3. Homepage http://www.science.uva.nl/~bobd/useful/gpresent/ (last checked: 2010-03-27) 7.4. Copyright and License Copyright Bob Diertens GPL 8. HavenPoint 8.1. 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/. ” 8.2. Requirements 8.2.1. Mandatory Python 1.5.2 or later ReportLab 8.3. Homepage Unknown 8.4. Copyright and License Copyright 2001 Matt Gushee GPL ? 9. HTML Slidy 9.1. General Description “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.” 9.1.1. Example(s) See: http://www.w3.org/2005/Talks/0922-sw-edinburgh-tbl/, http://math.albany.edu/math/pers/hammond/Presen/Tug2007/tug07sl idesx.xhtml 9.2. Requirements 9.3. Homepage http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/ (last checked: 2010-07-27) 9.4. Copyright and License Copyright © 2005 W3C W3C Software Notice And License 10. ImPress 10.1. 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. ” 10.2. Requirements tbd. 10.3. Homepage http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/impress/ (last checked: 2010-03-27) 10.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 1994-2000 Christopher J. Cox tbd. 11. impress.js 11.1. General Description “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 ” 11.2. Requirements tbd. 11.3. Homepage https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js (last checked: 2012-02-05) 11.4. Copyright and License Copyright 2011-2012 Bartek Szopka. MIT 12. Impress!ve 12.1. General Description “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.” 12.2. Requirements * Python 2.3, 2.4 or 2.5 * PyOpenGL * PyGame * PIL * Xpdf 12.3. Homepage Unknown 12.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Martin J. Fiedler GPL 13. Java Power Presenter - JPP 13.1. 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. ” 13.2. Requirements Java 2 Version 1.3.0 or higher 13.3. Homepage Unknown 13.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 1999 by T.Ehm License ? 14. JackSVG 14.1. 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. ” 14.2. Requirements tbd. 14.3. Homepage Unknown 14.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, DSTC Pty Ltd. DSTC Public License (DPL) 15. Lecturer 15.1. General Description “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). ” 15.2. Requirements texapi and yax 15.3. Homepage http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=lectur er (last checked: 2010-09-19) 15.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2010, Paul Isambert LPPL 16. LyX 16.1. General Description tbd. 16.2. Requirements tbd. 16.3. Homepage http://www.lyx.org (Last ckecked: 2010-03-27) 16.4. Copyright and License tbd. 17. marSLIDE 17.1. General Description tbd. 17.2. Requirements 17.2.1. Mandatory LaTeX2e 17.3. Homepage http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~wgm/WARM/slides/ (Last ckecked: 2010-03-27) 17.4. Copyright and License Copyright 2000,2001 Wendy G. McKay, Ross R. Moore LPPL 18. mozPoint 18.1. 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.” 18.2. Requirements 18.2.1. Mandatory 18.3. Homepage http://mozpoint.mozdev.org/index.html (Last ckecked: 2010-03-27) 18.4. Copyright and License Copyright 2000-2004 mozPoint MPL 19. Orator 19.1. 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.” 19.2. Requirements 19.2.1. Mandatory PHP 19.3. Homepage Unknown 19.4. Copyright and License Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 The Horde Project. Propiertary license, but in general redistributable. 20. pandoc 20.1. General Description “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.” 20.2. Homepage http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ (last checked: 2010-03-27) 20.3. Copyright and License Copyright 2006-2008, John MacFarlane GPL 21. pdfslide 21.1. General Description “ ” 21.2. Requirements 21.2.1. Mandatory LaTeX2e 21.3. Homepage http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfslide (last checked: 2014-11-08) 21.4. Copyright and License Copyright (c) 1999, C. V. Radhakrishnan LPPL 22. pdfwin 22.1. 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. ” 22.2. Requirements 22.2.1. Mandatory LaTeX2e 22.3. Homepage http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~muehlich/tex/texindex.html (last checked: 2010-03-27) 22.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2001,02,03 Matthias Mühlich LPPL 23. Pointless 23.1. 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. ” 23.2. Requirements 23.3. Homepage Unknown 23.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2002 Peter Andreasen, Christian Tønsberg, Jacob Weismann GNU GPL 24. powerdot 24.1. 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. ” 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 powerdot example 24.2. Requirements The list of mandatory packages can be found in the PDF documentation of the powerdot class. 24.3. Homepage http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/ (last checked: 2010-03-27) 24.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2005 Hendri Adriaens and Christopher Ellison LPPL 25. PPPSlides 25.1. General Description tbd. 25.2. Requirements tbd. 25.3. Homepage Unknown 25.4. Copyright and License tbd. 26. Present 26.1. General Description “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. ” 26.2. Requirements tbd. 26.3. Homepage http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/plain/contrib/present.zip (last checked: 2010-09-19) 26.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2010 Matthias Meister LPPL 27. Prestimel 27.1. 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. ” 27.2. Requirements tbd. 27.3. Homepage Unknown 27.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Bernhard Trummer GPL 28. pylize 28.1. 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. ” 28.2. Requirements HTMLgen Optionally: Python Imaging Library (PIL) 28.3. Homepage http://www.chrisarndt.de/en/software/pylize/index.html (last checked: 2010-03-28) 28.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2002 Christopher Arndt GPL 29. Pyslide 29.1. 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. ” 29.2. Requirements Python PyGame 29.3. Homepage Unknown 29.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Ayose Cazorla León GPL 30. reveal.js 30.1. General Description “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. ” 30.2. Requirements 30.3. Homepage https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js (last checked: 2013-01-05) Live demo: http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/ (last checked: 2013-01-05) 30.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Hakim El Hattab MIT licensed 31. S5 31.1. 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. ” 31.2. Requirements 31.3. Homepage http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ (last checked: 2010-11-13) 31.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Eric A. and Kathryn S. Meyer Public Domain 32. S5 Reloaded 32.1. General Description “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. ” 32.2. Requirements 32.3. Homepage http://www.netzgesta.de/S5/ (last checked: 2010-11-13) 32.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2007 Christian Effenberger Public Domain 33. screen.sty 33.1. 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. ” 33.2. Requirements TeXPower 33.3. Homepage http://web.as.uky.edu/statistics/users/dmallen/oldpage/latex/la tex.html (last time checked: 2010-03-28) 33.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2004 David M. Allen ? 34. Slide40 34.1. General Description “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 Slide40 example output 34.2. Requirements Java runtime environment 34.3. Homepage http://alum.wpi.edu/~tfraser/Software/Slide40/index.html (last checked: 2010-03-28) 34.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2007 Timothy Jon Fraser GPL v3 35. Slidemaker 35.1. General Description “Slidemaker is utility to create a (computer) slideshow in PDF format.” 35.2. Requirements 35.3. Homepage http://slidemaker.sourceforge.net (last checked: 2010-03-28) 35.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2002 Gijsbert Stoet GPL 36. SlideML 36.1. 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.” 36.2. Requirements 36.3. Homepage http://slideml.org/ (last checked: 2010-03-28) 36.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) ? ? Creative Commons License (Attribution License) 37. slides 37.1. 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. 37.1.1. Example For an example see http://www.colorado.edu/ITS/docs/latex/Unix/examples/sampleC.ht ml 37.2. Requirements Should be part of any TeX installation. 37.3. Homepage Unknown 37.4. Copyright and License LPPL 37.5. Special Notes The LaTeX project announced in LaTeX News 11 on June 1999, that the class will be unsupported in the future. 38. slides.sh 38.1. 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). ” 38.2. Requirements 38.2.1. Mandatory sh, expr, grep, head, ln, mkdir, printf, sed, tail 38.2.2. Optional tar, gzip 38.3. Homepage http://fx.lebail.free.fr/slides.sh/ (last checked: 2010-03-28) 38.4. Copyright and License Copyright © 2000,2001 Francois-Xavier Le Bail GPL 39. Slideshow 39.1. 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).” 39.2. Requirements PLT MrEd or DrScheme 39.3. Homepage http://www.plt-scheme.org/software/slideshow/ (last checked: 2010-03-28) 39.4. Copyright and License tbd. 40. Spork 40.1. General Description “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.” 40.2. Requirements Perl 40.3. Homepage http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Spork-0.20/lib/Spork.pm (last checked: 2010-03-28) 40.4. Copyright and License Copyright (c) 2004, 2005. Brian Ingerson Artistic License 41. talk 41.1. 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.” 41.2. Requirements LaTeX packages: amsmath, graphicx, pgf, multido, hyperref. 41.3. Homepage CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/talk (last checked: 2010-03-28) 41.4. Copyright and License Copyright 2005 Martin Wiebusch LPPL 42. TeX4ht: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext 42.1. 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. ” 42.2. Requirements 42.2.1. Mandatory 42.2.2. Optional 42.3. Homepage http://www.tug.org/tex4ht/ (last checked: 2010-03-26) 42.4. 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 43. TPP Text Presentation Program 43.1. 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. ” 43.1.1. 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 jklö asdf jklö asdf jklö asdf jklö 43.2. Requirements 43.2.1. Mandatory Ruby 1.8, ncurses, ncurses-ruby 43.2.2. Optional 43.3. Homepage http://www.ngolde.de/tpp/ (last checked: 2010-03-28) 43.4. Copyright and License Copyright © 2004 Andreas Krennmair, Nico Golde GPL 44. Utopia PDF Presentations Bundle 44.1. 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.) ” 44.2. Requirements (La)TeX installation 44.3. Homepage Unknown 44.4. Copyright and License Copyright 1999-2002 Utopia Precision Typesetting Propiertary license 45. wiki2beamer 45.1. General Description “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.” 45.2. Requirements LaTeX Beamer Package Python 45.3. Homepage http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~mren/wiki2beamer/doku.php (last checked: 2010-03-28) 45.4. Copyright and License Copyright Michael Rentzsch GPL 46. WML - Website META Language 46.1. 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. ” 46.2. Requirements Perl5 46.3. Homepage http://www.engelschall.com/sw/wml/ (last checked: 2010-03-28) 46.4. Copyright and License Copyright 1996-2000, Ralf S. Engelschall Copyright 1999-2000, Denis Barbier GPL 47. xdvipresent 47.1. 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.” 47.2. Requirements tbd. 47.3. Homepage http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Software/xdvipresent_html/xdvipresent .html (last checked: 2010-03-28) 47.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) Manuel Hermenegildo and The CLIP Group License ? 48. XSLies 48.1. 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. ” 48.2. Requirements tbd. 48.3. Homepage Unknown 48.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2001 Sami Lempinen The Apache License 49. xsw 49.1. General Description “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. ” 49.2. Requirements SDL ImageMagick 49.3. Homepage http://code.google.com/p/xsw/ (last checked: 2010-03-28) 49.4. Copyright and License Copyright André Wagner GPL v3 50. XUL Slideshow Toolkit 50.1. General Description “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 ” 50.2. Requirements tbd. 50.3. Homepage http://blog.seesaw.it/pages/slideshow(last checked: 2010-03-28) 50.4. Copyright and License Copyright (C) ? ? 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. In March 2009 I had a first look in one of the popluar formats for ebooks ePub and found that the most recent version of the Docbook XSL stylesheets (1.74.3) already has (experimental) support for generating ePub output. The first tests were very promising so I decided to provide an ePub version with future relases of this project. 2. Credits The following people have contributed substantial parts to this document: * Hendri Adriaens * Uwe Brauer * Herman Bruyninckx * Florian Cramer * Carlos Enrique Carleos Artime * Michael Ebner * Victor Eijkhout * Sven Guckes * William F. Hammond * Jochen Hein * Werner Heuser * Scott Higinbotham * Jan Hlavacek * Ludger Humbert * Paul Isambert * 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 (libxml2-2.7.6/libxslt-1.1.26) with DocBook XSL Stylesheets (V1.75.2) (customized) ePub xsltproc (libxml2-2.7.6/libxslt-1.1.26) with DocBook XSL Stylesheets (V1.75.2) 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 V0.2.8 14-11-09 + Added reveal.js + Corrected URL for pdfslide V0.2.7 12-02-05 + Added deck.js + Added impress.js V0.2.6 11-06-19 + Added Lecturer + Added Present + Added Fathom.js V0.2.5 10-07-27 + Added note about donating using http://flattr.com + Renamed Slide Show Help to HTML Slidy V0.2.4 10-03-28 + Updated some URLs; checked most links V0.2.3 09-07-30 + Experimental PDF version. + Updated some changed links. + Added section pandoc. V.2.2 09-04-24 + Added section xsw. + Added URL last checked information. + Updated some changed links. V0.2.1 09-04-10 + Added section wiki2beamer. V0.2.0 09-03-29 + ePub output available. + Added section Impressive. V0.1.20 07-12-27 + Added section HTML Slidy. V0.1.19 07-10-27 + Added section XUL Slideshow Toolkit. + Added section Spork. + Added section S5 Reloaded. + Added example output to section Slide40. V0.1.18 07-10-05 + Added section Slide40 + Dropped PDF output format V0.1.17 06-10-03 + Added example for section KeyJnote. 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. 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