Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote:
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...
Well in all honestly lots of thing were not working properly due to the
fact that most new packages
require fonts and packages only included in TeXLive or if you like in
MiKTeX 2.8 for Windows.
teTeX was unmaintained for more than three years so of course the things
that were coded in last couple
of years didn't work on teTeX.
I share your frustration about the fact that Acroread is also required.
I think, I mentioned this in my first post.
Xpdf is just not going to cut for lots of these new Latex packages
because people who use them are working on
Windows. If you ask me personally that is just poor coding but I
unfortunately have to relay on others to write
macros for TeX. The best thing is of course if you could write your
own macros and packages.
Finally, my students are using very simple trick to show their
"movies" in my class. They collapse slides all
together, start MatLab and play their animations from there.
Obviously MatLab is not free software but I can not force anybody to use
FreeMath or SciLab (Not even ported for OpenBSD). If you look older
threads you will see that installing Maple, MatLab, or Mathematica is
non-trivial on
OpenBSD.
Could you tell me at least what kind of movies are you trying to embed
into your slides?
Best,
Predrag
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
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