On Thursday, 20 October 2005 at 15:37:12 -0600, Clarke Echols wrote: > > I'd like to create the equivalent of a PowerPoint presentation using > PDF or other reasonable display. It would be nice to be able to use > the entire screen instead of a window, like PowerPoint does. It has > to run on Windows 98 and newer machines. [I have trouble justifying > the cost of Microsoft Office to get a PowerPoint composer.]
... not to mention the pain of having to use it. I've been doing my slides in groff/PDF for years. They're (deliberately) not as brightly coloured as Robert Marks' examples, but they look the way I want them to, and they're easy to put together. You'll find one example at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Papers/freebeer/, and others in the parent directory. For presentations, I create multiple slides with one more bullet point per slide, in much the same way that Robert does, but I haven't included them on the web page. You can also find some impossibly badly documented stuff (I'm working on it) at http://www.lemis.com/grog/programs/groff-tools/. The real reason for this reply is: how do you *display* PDF slide sets? I currently use acroread, which renders well, but it's pretty slow (it can take a second to change to a complicated page, even with a 3 GHz CPU). Also, using a laptop it's far too easy to hit "Home" or "End" instead of "PageUp" or "PageDn", with embarrassing results. I've tried things like xpdf, but the rendering doesn't stand up. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
