In the next couple sentences I will try to answer some of the questions
you guys asked me about powerdot
class of latex presentations.
1. Yes it is easier to learn than the Beamer but if know Beamer and it
works for you maybe you should
stick to your guns.
This is the link to documentation and the source file for powerdot
http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/entries/powerdot.html
I want to reiterate that is very easy to customize slides unlike Beamer
although you can see in the documentation that
the package comes with about 20 different layouts and many more
different color patterns.
Trying to install manually on the top of teTeX will probably fail due to
the fact that teTeX uses some outdated
fonts. I tired in the past. It is not worthy as TeXLive in current ports
three is rock solid.
2. There were many questions about Movies. Yes, It is possible to embed
movies into the slides.
Please follow the link
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/
The following link contains also extensive discussion of movie15 package
and some examples
http://www.uoregon.edu/~noeckel/PDFmovie.html
Cheers,
Predrag
Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
On 17:45:26 Mar 18, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
I am a mathematician so I am quite often in the same position as you to
give presentations which contain
lots of formulas and images.
I use Powerdot class of Latex presentations (descendant of Prosper an
obsolete class of presentations ) which is as an alternative to the Beamer
class. For the comprehensive review of all classes of presentations for
latex you may check
http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/bytopic.html#present
The advantages over Powerdot over Beamer are numerous.
Powerdot is far easier (has only 60 man pages v.s. Beamer man pages are
over 400 pages).
It is also very simple to incorporate movies into your slides. The slides
are easily customized
and in my point of view far more beautiful than the Beamer.
That will be really cool. ;)
I love beauty both in women and in my work. ;)
What about movies?
The popularity of Beamer seems comes from the fact that you can use
pdflatex to produce pdf slides.
That is not possible with Powerdot as it uses some PostScript tricks. So
you will have to latex slides followed by
dvips and ps2pdf or dvipdfm to produce pdf slides. The ultimate goal of
course is to produce pdf slides.
That is no problem at all.
I noticed that one has to use Adobe Reader (I prefer Xpdf as well) which is
only available from ports due to the
license issues in order to have alive links on slides. That seems to be
built in feature ( I would call it bug)
which should be communicated probably up stream. The slides are very
responsive. I personally have not seen better
looking slides on any platform and I think I have seen it all.
Powerdot class of presentations is part of TeXLive but not the part of
teTeX. As you know teTeX is
dead for about three years now and the TeXLive is official TeX distribution
for Unix maintained by TeX community.
TeXLive is available only from ports for OpenBSD 4.2.
However you will have to use port for 4.3 current (soon to be release) as I
stumbled upon a bug in Powerdot
class of presentation. The bug was in TeXLive source code and was well
documented.
It is already fixed by port maintainer for OpenBSD 4.3.
As far as I know TeXLive will be regular package (you will not need to use
ports) starting OpenBSD 4.3. This is
only second Unix like system after Debian to have fully functional TeXLive
thanks to Edd Baret porter of TeXLive
for OpenBSD. On the last note I recommend that you install full TeXLive
which is about 1Gb but includes
all TeX/Latex features coded at the moment. I am not sure if the TeXLive
base includes Powerdot. I would guess yes.
I don't mind waiting till May 1.
It is much better than Beamer?
Do I have to go thro' the same learning curve?
Your argument is quite convincing though. What about movies?
-Girish
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