movie15... yes, I know it from latex-beamer... it's (was?) crap It will only embed movies under acroread AND windows... and asks for very recent pdflatex versions... at least this was the case one year ago, when I gave it a chance last time...
evince, on the other hand, is not displaying perfectly the beamer layout and I don't know how to tell evince that it must use xine to reproduce the linked movies of my pdf talks... kpdf is more intelligent but as slow as a Spanish bureaucrat... For now latex-beamer + apm -H + evince seems to be the winner combination in my case 2008/3/19, Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In the next couple sentences I will try to answer some of the questions > you guys asked me about powerdot > class of latex presentations. > > 1. Yes it is easier to learn than the Beamer but if know Beamer and it > works for you maybe you should > stick to your guns. > > This is the link to documentation and the source file for powerdot > > http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/entries/powerdot.html > > I want to reiterate that is very easy to customize slides unlike Beamer > although you can see in the documentation that > the package comes with about 20 different layouts and many more > different color patterns. > > Trying to install manually on the top of teTeX will probably fail due to > the fact that teTeX uses some outdated > fonts. I tired in the past. It is not worthy as TeXLive in current ports > three is rock solid. > > > 2. There were many questions about Movies. Yes, It is possible to embed > movies into the slides. > Please follow the link > > http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/ > > > The following link contains also extensive discussion of movie15 package > and some examples > http://www.uoregon.edu/~noeckel/PDFmovie.html > > Cheers, > > Predrag > > > > > > > > > > > > Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > > > > On 17:45:26 Mar 18, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > > >> I am a mathematician so I am quite often in the same position as you to > >> give presentations which contain > >> lots of formulas and images. > >> I use Powerdot class of Latex presentations (descendant of Prosper an > >> obsolete class of presentations ) which is as an alternative to the > Beamer > >> class. For the comprehensive review of all classes of presentations for > >> latex you may check > >> > >> http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/bytopic.html#present > >> > >> The advantages over Powerdot over Beamer are numerous. > >> Powerdot is far easier (has only 60 man pages v.s. Beamer man pages are > >> over 400 pages). > >> It is also very simple to incorporate movies into your slides. The slides > >> are easily customized > >> and in my point of view far more beautiful than the Beamer. > >> > > > > That will be really cool. ;) > > > > I love beauty both in women and in my work. ;) > > > > What about movies? > > > > > >> The popularity of Beamer seems comes from the fact that you can use > >> pdflatex to produce pdf slides. > >> That is not possible with Powerdot as it uses some PostScript tricks. So > >> you will have to latex slides followed by > >> dvips and ps2pdf or dvipdfm to produce pdf slides. The ultimate goal of > >> course is to produce pdf slides. > >> > >> > > > > That is no problem at all. > > > > > >> I noticed that one has to use Adobe Reader (I prefer Xpdf as well) which > is > >> only available from ports due to the > >> license issues in order to have alive links on slides. That seems to be > >> built in feature ( I would call it bug) > >> which should be communicated probably up stream. The slides are very > >> responsive. I personally have not seen better > >> looking slides on any platform and I think I have seen it all. > >> > >> Powerdot class of presentations is part of TeXLive but not the part of > >> teTeX. As you know teTeX is > >> dead for about three years now and the TeXLive is official TeX > distribution > >> for Unix maintained by TeX community. > >> TeXLive is available only from ports for OpenBSD 4.2. > >> However you will have to use port for 4.3 current (soon to be release) as > I > >> stumbled upon a bug in Powerdot > >> class of presentation. The bug was in TeXLive source code and was well > >> documented. > >> It is already fixed by port maintainer for OpenBSD 4.3. > >> > >> As far as I know TeXLive will be regular package (you will not need to use > >> ports) starting OpenBSD 4.3. This is > >> only second Unix like system after Debian to have fully functional TeXLive > >> thanks to Edd Baret porter of TeXLive > >> for OpenBSD. On the last note I recommend that you install full TeXLive > >> which is about 1Gb but includes > >> all TeX/Latex features coded at the moment. I am not sure if the TeXLive > >> base includes Powerdot. I would guess yes. > >> > >> > > > > I don't mind waiting till May 1. > > > > It is much better than Beamer? > > > > Do I have to go thro' the same learning curve? > > > > Your argument is quite convincing though. What about movies? > > > > -Girish > > > > -- > > "unix soi qui mal y pense" > > > > UNIX to him who evil thinks > > > > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > | GnuPG key : 0xC7BBF207 | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net | > > | Fingerprint: 2AFF C264 20CE C80C DDFF CC15 AD3E F190 C7BB F207 | > > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
