Hi Dónal, If you have been using LaTeX for your presentations, another option you could try is using Beamer. I haven't used this myself, but this is a sophisticated LaTeX package that will let you do all sorts of transition slide effects through the basic style package, as well as formatting the layout in the correct aspect ratio for screen presentations the way that basic slide style packages will handle.
Here are a few URLs from a quick Google Search • The LaTeX Beamer Class Home page at SourceForge (this is open source): http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ • The Beamer Wikipedia page (for an overview and links to external material) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX) • A Beamer Quickstart by a mathematician at University of Maryland http://www.math.umbc.edu/~rouben/beamer/ • Making Slides and Doing it with Beamer (a tutorial in pdf slide format prepared with Beamer at MIT) http://web.mit.edu/rsi/www/pdfs/beamer-tutorial.pdf • Norm Matloff's Quick Tutorial on the Beamer Package for Slide Making http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/beamer.html The advantages here might be that you can reuse existing material and just put it into a different style file. Some of the document pages include sample images of the different style templates (which will just get announced as "image") There seem to be many tutorials around about putting something together quickly, because the main document appears to go into some detail about support for all sorts of special effects, dissolves between slides, etc. Just a thought. I don't know how much work this would be. (As an aside, it's quite something to hear all these math equations correctly read out). Cheers, Esther Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > Thanks Chris that looks excellent. > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] > ] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch > Sent: 08 October 2009 16:56 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: making presentations using a Mac. > > If you are a web developer type you can try out Eric Meyer's S5 > microformat CSS stuff > > http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ > > You pretty much make unordered lists and heading tags which then get > show as slides and titles. He adds keyboard and mouse handlers and > some navigation. So arrowing or clicking advances the slides. Nice > thing is the presentation ends up being much smaller and runs in any > browser. > > CB > > Ben King wrote: >> >> Dear Donal, >> >> You can use Voiceover to make a presentation and get the rest of the >> class interactively involved. I hope this helps. >> Blessings, >> Ben >> On Oct 7, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Donal Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Just wondering if anyone has used any presentation software on the >>> Mac? At >>> the minute I'm using LaTeX to generate PDF versions of the slides, >>> however >>> Preview isn't great for displaying on a projector. Any thoughts are >>> welcome. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Dónal >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
