I must apologise for speaking like that but I have spent HOURS in the past trying to make movie15 work... until I realised of the points I made in my last email. I was very angry....
2008/3/19, Pau Amaro-Seoane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 the fact that teTeX uses some outdated 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]
