Just saw this on ctt. Does anyone know more about this? Thomas
Name of contribution: lecturer Author's name: Paul Isambert Location on CTAN: macros/generic Summary description: On-screen presentations with PDF features for (almost) all formats. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lecturer creates slides for on-screen presentations based on PDF features without manipulating TeX's typesetting process. The presentation flow relies on PDF's abilities to display content step by step. Features include: - Free positioning of anything anywhere in painted areas on the slide, as well as in the main textblock. - Numerous attributes to control the layout and the presentation flow, from TeX's primitive dimensions to the visibility of steps. - Feature inheritance from global to local settings, with intermediate types. - Basic drawing facilities to produce symbols, e.g. for list items or buttons. - Colors, transparency, shades, and pictures. - Navigation with links, pop-up menus, and customizable bookmarks. - Easy switch between presentation and handout. - PDF transitions. Besides the traditional documentation, the distribution includes a visual doc (LecturerDemo-VisualDoc.pdf) and six demo presentations ranging from geometric abstraction to classic style to silly video game. Lecturer is designed for all formats except ConTeXt MkIV (because of clashes in management of PDF objects, probably), works only with pdfTeX and LuaTeX for the time being, and requires texapi and yax, both v.1.02.
On 07/28/2010 04:08 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Just saw this on ctt. Does anyone know more about this?
I helped Paul debugging the context support, but I do not really know how it does what it does. Knowing Paul's previous work, the output should look pretty good typographically, but I cannot say whether or not it will be easy to use and/or worthwhile for a context user. Best wishes, Taco
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Just saw this on ctt. Does anyone know more about this?
Just glanced at the documentation...interesting.
Name of contribution: lecturer Author's name: Paul Isambert Location on CTAN: macros/generic Summary description: On-screen presentations with PDF features for (almost) all formats. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lecturer creates slides for on-screen presentations based on PDF features without manipulating TeX's typesetting process. The presentation flow relies on PDF's abilities to display content step by step.
This is similar to what Hans' presentation modules do...each step is a new layer on the slide and clicking on screen toggles visibility. The interesting feature is that page down and page up also step the slides, so this can be used with a wireless presenter (while Hans's modules cannot). Aditya
On 29-7-2010 6:37, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
This is similar to what Hans' presentation modules do...each step is a new layer on the slide and clicking on screen toggles visibility. The interesting feature is that page down and page up also step the slides, so this can be used with a wireless presenter (while Hans's modules cannot).
depends on if we can hook into those keys ... i tend to be careful with those features as they are rather view version dependent (it often takes a couple of versions for something annotation related to get reasonable stable) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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