> I have updated http://www.haifux.org/givelecture.html to > include a list of tools which create free-format presentations.
An alternative to the LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf route is using PDFLaTeX, which creates PDF files directly from LaTeX sources. An advantage of PDFLaTeX is that it allows embedding of PNG and JPG images in the PDF file; this is how I got the penguins and sponsors logos into the W2L promotional materials. As far as I know dvips doesn't support these formats. On the other hand, to my knowledge PDFLaTeX does not support the importation of EPS graphics, nor does it support the package pstricks, both of which are supported by dvips. I've been told that prosper depends on pstricks so it doesn't work with PDFLaTeX. A presentation class that is supposed to work with PDFLaTeX is beamer. I've never tried it. Read more about it at: http://semantics-online.org/geek/2003/08/beamer_class_for_latexpdf_presentations and find it at: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/ -Ron. p.s. "beamer" is German for overhead/data projector. It looks like an English word, but is in fact a German innovation not used in English. There are quite a few words like this in German, pretending to be English but not really so. More at: http://semantics-online.org/blog/2003/08/pseudoloanwords_in_german http://www.macmillandictionary.com/MED-Magazine/june2003/08-German-English-false-friends.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
