On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:15:29 +0100 paul sutton <zl...@zleap.net> wrote:
> Hi > > Now we have the raspberry PI out, I can perhaps use a raspberry Pi as > part of a display system for a TV, sort of scroll through slides etc. > > if i create a presentation in beamer does this allow for auto changing > of slides as in if I set the pi to auto boot to x, auto login and > start a presentation, I want it to run the presentation and when it > gets to the end, start over from the beginning without having to > press a keyboard to go to next slide. > > Just wondered if this is possible or another package should be used. > > Paul > Paul, Look at \transduration in the the Beamer User Guide (http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/doc/beameruserguide.pdf) I haven't used it myself, but it seems as if it should do what you're asking. Or you could use Impressive (http://impressive.sourceforge.net/index.php) which can be used to automate any PDF presentation. You might need to write a simple loop in some scripting language (I'd use Perl, but Python, bash, etc. would work) to repeat the show. Les
