low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

Simon Rutishauser simon.rutishauser at gmx.ch
Sun Oct 5 09:40:35 PDT 2003


Am Sun, 05 Oct 2003 08:57:10 -0600 schrieb Tillman Hodgson:

> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:16:07AM +0200, Simon Rutishauser wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> give the Latex Prosper Package a try (you have to fetch it separately).
>> With it you can create pdf files.
>> 
>> These you can present using "xpdf -fullscreen " (I think xpdf doesn't
>> need too much ressources ;-))
>> 
>> Peschmä
> 
> I also recommend Prosper with LaTeX. It looks great - I have some up at
> http://www.rospa.ca/documents/ under "Presentations" if anyone would like
> to take a look. It presents well under acroread in full-screen mode. xpdf
> -fullscreen also works well, though the slide transition effects are lost
> (most likely considered a feature ;-) ).

Well, the transition effects look ugly and always the same. Thus I don't
use them ;-)

Anyway Acrobat Reader doesn't work properly on my system so I don't use
it. And it needs plenty of ressources...

Peschmä



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