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[Groff] Displaying PDF slides (was: Colors, PowerPoint and PDFs)
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey |
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[Groff] Displaying PDF slides (was: Colors, PowerPoint and PDFs) |
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Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:15:57 +0300 |
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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
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- Re: [Groff] Introduction, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Larry Kollar, 2005/10/19
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Meg McRoberts, 2005/10/20
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Larry Kollar, 2005/10/20
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Dorai Sitaram, 2005/10/20
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Miklos Somogyi, 2005/10/20
- [Groff] groff/xml/word, Meg McRoberts, 2005/10/20
- [Groff] Colors, PowerPoint and PDFs, Clarke Echols, 2005/10/20
- Re: [Groff] Colors, PowerPoint and PDFs, Robert Goulding, 2005/10/20
- [Groff] Displaying PDF slides (was: Colors, PowerPoint and PDFs),
Greg 'groggy' Lehey <=
- Re: [Groff] Displaying PDF slides (was: Colors, PowerPoint and PDFs), Michael Parson, 2005/10/21
- Re: [Groff] Displaying PDF slides (was: Colors, PowerPoint and PDFs), Greg 'groggy' Lehey, 2005/10/23
- Re: [Groff] Displaying PDF slides (was: Colors, PowerPoint and PDFs), Michael Parson, 2005/10/23
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/10/18
Re: [Groff] Introduction, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/10/18
Re: [Groff] Introduction, D. E. Evans, 2005/10/18
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