On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Ron Artstein wrote:
> > 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.
Prosper is the most common latex-based lecture format. It can be used to
produce fancy slides (e.g. mulix's later slides, IIRC).
A simpler method is to use seminar (prosper is actually based on seminar).
Both can be used to create sort of "animations". (it is actually more
straight-forward with prosper).
Hebrew support can be easier with seminar, because with prosper you have
to mess with the postscript issues. Another shortcoming of prosper is that
the dvi preview isn't useful. But the atvantratge of the ready-made
layouts is actually quite huge. Should I try to add a hebprosper style to
the hebclass of ivritex?
>
> 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.
>
to embed graphics with standard latex you have to convert it to eps
('pngtopnm | pnmtoeps' or whatever)
> 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 think that there's something called pdftricks
> I've been told
> that prosper depends on pstricks so it doesn't work with PDFLaTeX.
It is being actively used with pdflatex, AFAIK.
But so far I haven't got around to configure it on my system...
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