Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
> I have to put together a presentation and I would like to use a LaTeX > based solution. I have had a look at Michael Wiedmann's page that lists > a lot of solutions: > http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html > > Has anybody had any experiences, good or bad, with any particular > solution? Other people at this thing will be using Powerpoint, so I > would like to look as good as they do. chaksem. All good. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/presentation/presentation.html Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
I have used seminar.sty and converted the output using ps2pdf. The only caveat I would suggest is to make sure you use a common font like times if you are not 100% sure of the presentation computer. After preparing my slides and converting them to PDF, I got them looking nice on Linux and MacOSX, then drove over to Mum's place to make sure it worked on Windows. Mike used Prosper. It looked very good as a PDF on Linux and MacOSX but failed completely on Windows until he changed the font to something boring like times. In our case, we had to produce something that worked on different operating systems. If you have the luxury of presenting using your own PC then anything that you can see on the screen will be OK. The only problems you might have are low resolution projectors, and things that look purple on the screen might look blue on the projector. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Alan L Tyree [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 6 February 2003 16:52 To: Sydny Linux User Group Subject: [SLUG] LaTeX slides I have to put together a presentation and I would like to use a LaTeX based solution. I have had a look at Michael Wiedmann's page that lists a lot of solutions: http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html Has anybody had any experiences, good or bad, with any particular solution? Other people at this thing will be using Powerpoint, so I would like to look as good as they do. Thanks, Alan -- -- Alan L Tyree[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- IMPORTANT NOTICES This email (including any documents referred to in, or attached, to this email) may contain information that is personal, confidential or the subject of copyright or other proprietary rights in favour of Aristocrat, its affiliates or third parties. This email is intended only for the named addressee. Any privacy, confidence, copyright or other proprietary rights in favour of Aristocrat, its affiliates or third parties, is not lost because this email was sent to you by mistake. If you received this email by mistake you should: (i) not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise use it, or its contents, without the consent of Aristocrat or the owner of the relevant rights; (ii) let us know of the mistake by reply email or by telephone (+61 2 9413 6300); and (iii) delete it from your system and destroy all copies. Any personal information contained in this email must be handled in accordance with applicable privacy laws. Electronic and internet communications can be interfered with or affected by viruses and other defects. As a result, such communications may not be successfully received or, if received, may cause interference with the integrity of receiving, processing or related systems (including hardware, software and data or information on, or using, that hardware or software). Aristocrat gives no assurances in relation to these matters. If you have any doubts about the veracity or integrity of any electronic communication we appear to have sent you, please call +61 2 9413 6300 for clarification. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
Alan L Tyree wrote: > I have to put together a presentation and I would like to use a LaTeX > based solution. I have had a look at Michael Wiedmann's page that lists > a lot of solutions: > http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html > Has anybody had any experiences, good or bad, with any particular > solution? Other people at this thing will be using Powerpoint, so I > would like to look as good as they do. The above site is excellent. I have used mainly the seminar.sty and prosper package. Both are excellent. The propser has more control over the PDF file and can do slide transitions and you can use colour more easily. The seminar package has more control over things like creating smaller slides like 4 to an A4 page which can be printed out to hand out to people or use as a cue for yourself. One general suggestion i have is to avoid anything that looks like a PowerPoint (PP) presentation. Two reasons; I dot think that those styles are very professional or laid out well. The background yakes away impact from the content. 2. Such PP styles are now like the descending flight of ducks on the wall. They are over cliched and over used. Eg for the prosper example (Figure 1.5) they have a screen shot that looks like a PowerPoint Presentation. That's what to avoid IMO. But you can use prosper and make your own style quite easy. Its an excellent package. For the last presentation I made in January at a conference I preented a summary of a Web based cave database. I used an off white background, and black text (Utopia). At the bottom for those that were bored I put a short bit of data extracted from the actual database of funny cave names. That was done in a smaller font and at a gray of 75% so it didnt detract from my main text. I presntation like that might stood out amoung the others precisely because it was low-key and had more contrast. Things that are nice about prosper is that you can embed PDF commands like telling Acrobat to open up as full screen, slide mode when you click on the .pdf file (Windows and Mac OSX only). Interestingly the organiser asked me how I did that. Others had to start acrobat and then use the menus to set it while the audience waited. mgp looked quite nice but you need your own laptop running Linux to use it. Also make sure it uses nice fonts that are smooth and not bitty. I like prosper or seminar as you can make PDF which any PC will display. Make sure they have Acrobat 5.0 installed and get them to test your PDF beforehand *** All of the above though depends on what you are presenting and what the audience expects. Mike -- Mike Lake Uni of Technol., Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:41, Michael Lake wrote: > > One general suggestion i have is to avoid anything that looks like a > PowerPoint (PP) presentation. Two reasons; I dot think that those styles > are very professional or laid out well. The background yakes away impact > from the content. 2. Such PP styles are now like the descending flight > of ducks on the wall. They are over cliched and over used. Eg for the > prosper example (Figure 1.5) they have a screen shot that looks like a > PowerPoint Presentation. That's what to avoid IMO. But you can use > prosper and make your own style quite easy. Its an excellent package. Thanks for that Michael - I think these are good points. And thanks to others for comments on packages. I am inspired to try several. > > All of the above though depends on what you are presenting and what > the audience expects. Banking lawyers - no flames please! Alan -- -- Alan L Tyree[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
On 6 Feb 2003, Alan L Tyree wrote: > Has anybody had any experiences, good or bad, with any particular > solution? Other people at this thing will be using Powerpoint, so I > would like to look as good as they do. I used to use foiltex, but I wasn't happy with the flashiness of it. On a recommendation, I tried out Prosper, and absolutely love it. -- --- #include Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
At Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:06:22 +1100, Jill Rowling wrote: > I have used seminar.sty and converted the output using ps2pdf. > > The only caveat I would suggest is to make sure you use a common font like > times if you are not 100% sure of the presentation computer. The font should have been embedded in the ps and pdf files produced - if not, you (or your TeX installation) is doing something wrong. If you encounter that again, bring it up on the slug list (or privately I guess) and we can debug it. If you are generating pdfs directly with pdftex, definately try and get a recent version - they workaround the new bugs in recent acroreads. I've used seminar, prosper and a few others. I keep going back to the standard slides class, since I prefer the vertical centering and lack of headers. But then, my slides tend to have very little content. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
I've found that pdflatex works where latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf will sometimes create a seemingly font-free document. I assumed that that meant, as Gus has suggested, that pdflatex embedded the fonts and therefore allowed portability. BTW I really appreciate this discussion of LaTeX slides ;) patrick On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Angus Lees wrote: > At Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:06:22 +1100, Jill Rowling wrote: > > I have used seminar.sty and converted the output using ps2pdf. > > The font should have been embedded in the ps and pdf files produced - > if not, you (or your TeX installation) is doing something wrong. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
This one time, at band camp, Alan L Tyree wrote: >Banking lawyers - no flames please! In that case, go with powerpoint. The more useless eye-candy and uninformative gunk you can throw at them, the better. Banking lawyers... crikey. :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
This one time, at band camp, Alan L Tyree wrote: >I have to put together a presentation and I would like to use a LaTeX >based solution. I have had a look at Michael Wiedmann's page that lists >a lot of solutions: >http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html > >Has anybody had any experiences, good or bad, with any particular >solution? Other people at this thing will be using Powerpoint, so I >would like to look as good as they do. I use chaksem (based on seminar, and written by an old lecturer of mine ;-), which does overlays and displays pretty cleanly, very readable text on a projector. Bit of a steep learning curve if there's no examples, though -- and there aren't many ;-) http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/presentation/presentation.html or grab the chaksem package on Debian (sid) systems. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/presentation/presentation.html > > or grab the chaksem package on Debian (sid) systems. Manuel Chakravarty makes some interesting points. TeX people write such nice pages ;-) and you weren't kidding about the examples ... > Latest News: ... > * A second example on how to use the style Michael Wiedmann's document http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html looks like it will keep growing. I like how it has an index! Typical TeX fiend ... Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:05:00AM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > > > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/presentation/presentation.html > > > > or grab the chaksem package on Debian (sid) systems. > > Manuel Chakravarty makes some interesting points. > TeX people write such nice pages ;-) > and you weren't kidding about the examples ... If you want a very simple, very rushed sample presentation using just points and overlays, you can check out. http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/~ianw/chaksem/linuxconf.tex You can then move on from there to more advanced features till your presentations look like Manuel's :) Also I have put up Matt Chapman's pspresent at http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/~ianw/pspresent/ This allows you to show your postscript file full screen and scroll through it. *Very* handy if you use a PPC notebook and thus can't get acrobat reader, and xpdf doesn't do full screen. that is if the external vga port works on said laptop ... -i -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
This one time, at band camp, Ian Wienand wrote: >Also I have put up Matt Chapman's pspresent at > >http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/~ianw/pspresent/ Unfortunately I don't have permission to access pspresent-0.9.tar.gz on that server :( -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
At Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:51:01 +1100, Ian Wienand wrote: > Also I have put up Matt Chapman's pspresent at > > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/~ianw/pspresent/ > > This allows you to show your postscript file full screen and scroll > through it. *Very* handy if you use a PPC notebook and thus can't get > acrobat reader, and xpdf doesn't do full screen. I always use xpdf for presentations: xpdf -fullscreen -bg black $file.pdf -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:09:57AM +1100, Angus Lees wrote: > > This allows you to show your postscript file full screen and scroll > > through it. *Very* handy if you use a PPC notebook and thus can't get > > acrobat reader, and xpdf doesn't do full screen. > > I always use xpdf for presentations: > xpdf -fullscreen -bg black $file.pdf yes sorry I confused myself I meant 'rotated'. This is a problem really only peculiar to chaksem, in that it outputs the postscript in 'seascape' mode. a straight ps2pdf conversion doesn't seem to set the rotation of the pdf properly, and then gives you an upside down pdf presentation. of course you can always select 'rotate' from the menu in xpdf twice to flip it over, but pspresent (or ghostscript really) knows the orientation from the ps file so you don't have to bother with this all the time. -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides
Ian Wienand wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:09:57AM +1100, Angus Lees wrote: > > > This allows you to show your postscript file full screen and scroll > > > through it. *Very* handy if you use a PPC notebook and thus can't get > > > acrobat reader, and xpdf doesn't do full screen. > > > > I always use xpdf for presentations: > > xpdf -fullscreen -bg black $file.pdf > > yes sorry I confused myself I meant 'rotated'. This is a problem > really only peculiar to chaksem, in that it outputs the postscript in > 'seascape' mode. a straight ps2pdf conversion doesn't seem to set the > rotation of the pdf properly, and then gives you an upside down pdf > presentation. > > of course you can always select 'rotate' from the menu in xpdf twice > to flip it over, but pspresent (or ghostscript really) knows the > orientation from the ps file so you don't have to bother with this all > the time. edit the PostScript and rotate the coordinate system 180 rotate stroke showpage :-) -- Mike Lake Uni of Technol., Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
