Hi Esther, Sorry I should have been clearer. I've been using beamer for years. It is a superb package. I was posing the question to try and determine whether the "traditional" mac-based products for presentation-making were accessible.
Thanks very much though, Donal On 8 Oct 2009, at 20:05, Esther wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
