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PPower4A LATEX Alternative to Powerpoint
Kjell Post
Table of Contents
1 Using the Acrobat Reader for presentations
2 A small FoilTEX example
3 Including pictures
4 Color
5 PPower4—a post-processor for pdflatex
6 Stepping thru lists
7 Stepping thru pictures
8 Multimedia and external applications
9 Using links
10 Backgrounds and page transitions
11 A template for PPower4 presentations
12 Creating your PDF document
13 Setting the page footer
14 Some tips and techniques
15 Open questions
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Using the Acrobat Reader for presentations
• Easy solution:
1. Use FoilTEX (or any other slide package).
FoilTEX uses a larger font, allows for landscape mode, slide
titles, etc, and is very easy to use.
2. Use pdflatex to produce a pdf-file.
pdflatex works just like LATEX, but produces a pdf-file.
3. View the pdf-file in Acrobat Reader, fullscreen mode.
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A small FoilTEX example
\documentclass[30pt,landscape]{foils}\usepackage[pdftex]{geometry}\geometry{headsep=3ex,hscale=0.9}\begin{document}\foilhead{Top 3 reasons to emigrate}\begin{enumerate}\item Rosengren\item Sahlin\item Winberg\end{enumerate}\end{document}
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Including pictures
PDF files can be included “as is”.
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\includegraphics{mdh.pdf}
Postscript files must be converted, using e.g. epstopdf.
I’ll describe METAPOST later.
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What about bitmaps?
JPEG and PNG images can also be included. . .
but remember that bitmap images don’t scale well.
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Color
• The color package is the preferred way to use colors.
• New colors are defined in RGB or CMY, for instance:
\definecolor{chocolate}{rgb}{0.82,0.41,0.12}
• Text can be set in a certain color,
\textcolor{chocolate}{$\phi = {(1+\sqrt{5}) \over 2}$}
which comes out as φ = (1+√
5)2
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Pros and cons
• Good: Platform independent.
• Good: Inherits all of LATEX’ power:
– Typesetting of mathematical formulæs:
limn→∞
n∑i=1
1i2
=π2
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– Automatic referencing, command definitions, etc.
• But: Not as exciting as e.g. Powerpoint.
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What we really want is this!
• Good: Platform independent.
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What we really want is this!
• Good: Platform independent.
• Good: Inherits all of LATEX’ power:
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What we really want is this!
• Good: Platform independent.
• Good: Inherits all of LATEX’ power:
– Typesetting of mathematical formulæs:
limn→∞
n∑i=1
1i2
=π2
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What we really want is this!
• Good: Platform independent.
• Good: Inherits all of LATEX’ power:
– Typesetting of mathematical formulæs:
limn→∞
n∑i=1
1i2
=π2
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– Automatic referencing, command definitions, etc.
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What we really want is this!
• Good: Platform independent.
• Good: Inherits all of LATEX’ power:
– Typesetting of mathematical formulæs:
limn→∞
n∑i=1
1i2
=π2
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– Automatic referencing, command definitions, etc.
• And: Just as exciting as e.g. Powerpoint.
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PPower4–a post-processor for pdflatex
...\foilhead{Top 3 reasons to emigrate}\begin{enumerate}\item Rosengren \pause\item Sahlin \pause\item Winberg \pause\end{enumerate}
...
document.texdocument.tex
pdflatexpdflatex
PPower4PPower4
AcrobatAcrobat
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PPower4–a post-processor for pdflatex
...\foilhead{Top 3 reasons to emigrate}\begin{enumerate}\item Rosengren \pause\item Sahlin \pause\item Winberg \pause\end{enumerate}
...
document.texdocument.tex
pdflatexpdflatex
PPower4PPower4
AcrobatAcrobat
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PPower4–a post-processor for pdflatex
...\foilhead{Top 3 reasons to emigrate}\begin{enumerate}\item Rosengren \pause\item Sahlin \pause\item Winberg \pause\end{enumerate}
...
document.texdocument.tex
pdflatexpdflatex
PPower4PPower4
AcrobatAcrobat
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Stepping thru lists
• You can step thru itemized lists.
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Stepping thru lists
• You can step thru itemized lists.
• In fact, you can pause . . .
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Stepping thru lists
• You can step thru itemized lists.
• In fact, you can pause . . . almost anywhere!
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Stepping thru lists
• You can step thru itemized lists.
• In fact, you can pause . . . almost anywhere!
n∑i=1
i = 1 + 2 + · · ·+ n
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Stepping thru lists
• You can step thru itemized lists.
• In fact, you can pause . . . almost anywhere!
n∑i=1
i = 1 + 2 + · · ·+ n
= n+ · · ·+ 2 + 1
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Stepping thru lists
• You can step thru itemized lists.
• In fact, you can pause . . . almost anywhere!
n∑i=1
i = 1 + 2 + · · ·+ n
= n+ · · ·+ 2 + 1
2n∑i=1
i = (n+ 1) + · · ·+ (n+ 1)
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Stepping thru lists
• You can step thru itemized lists.
• In fact, you can pause . . . almost anywhere!
n∑i=1
i = 1 + 2 + · · ·+ n
= n+ · · ·+ 2 + 1
2n∑i=1
i = (n+ 1) + · · ·+ (n+ 1) = n(n+ 1)
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Previous items can be dimmed
• “To be or not to be” —Shakespeare
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Previous items can be dimmed
• “To be or not to be” —Shakespeare
• ”To do is to be” —Kant
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Previous items can be dimmed
• “To be or not to be” —Shakespeare
• ”To do is to be” —Kant
• ”To be is to do” —Sartre
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Previous items can be dimmed
• “To be or not to be” —Shakespeare
• ”To do is to be” —Kant
• ”To be is to do” —Sartre
• ”Do be do be do” —Sinatra
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Previous items can be dimmed
• “To be or not to be” —Shakespeare
• ”To do is to be” —Kant
• ”To be is to do” —Sartre
• ”Do be do be do” —Sinatra
• ”Yabba dabba do!” —Flintstone
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Stepping thru pictures
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Stepping thru pictures
1 2 n
n∑i=1
i
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Stepping thru pictures
1 2 n
n∑i=1
i
n 2 1
n∑i=1
i
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Stepping thru pictures
1 2 n
n∑i=1
i
n 2 1
n∑i=1
i
n
n+ 1
1 2 n
2n∑i=1
i = n(n+ 1)
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Using links
You can define a label on a page with
\toptarget{toc}
and then later reference on another page with
\toplink{toc}{Table of Contents}
which will be shown as Table of Contents.
As usual with references, you have to run LATEX twice.
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Multimedia and external applications
Movies and other scripts can be invoked using
\href{run:}{filename}{title}
It’s Bill Gates’ birthday today—give him a cake!
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Multimedia and external applications
Movies and other scripts can be invoked using
\href{run:}{filename}{title}
It’s Bill Gates’ birthday today—give him a cake!
Calling applications is however more platform dependent.
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Backgrounds and page transitions
• Backgrounds can have a solid color or a gradient.
pagecolor{color} solid color
vpagecolor[color 1]{color 2} vertical gradient
hpagecolor[color 1]{color 2} horizontal gradient
• On this page I have chosen the romantic sunset motif.
\definecolor{bgblue}{rgb}{0.4,0.6,1.0}\definecolor{bgred}{rgb}{1.0,0.6,0.4}\vpagecolor[bgred]{bgblue}
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Backgrounds and page transitions
• Transitions can be performed between screens . . .
\foilhead{Backgrounds and page transitions}\Dissolve
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Backgrounds and page transitions
• Transitions can be performed between screens . . .
\foilhead{Backgrounds and page transitions}\Dissolve
• . . . or with text by using special \pause-commands.
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Backgrounds and page transitions
• Transitions can be performed between screens . . .
\foilhead{Backgrounds and page transitions}\Dissolve
• . . . or with text by using special \pause-commands.
• Consult extension.pdf on the PPower4-page for
details.
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A template for PPower4 presentations
\documentclass[30pt,landscape]{foils}\usepackage[pdftex]{geometry}\geometry{headsep=3ex,hscale=0.9}\usepackage{hyperref}\usepackage[pdftex]{color}\usepackage{pause}\usepackage{background}\usepackage{pp4slide}\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} % if you want to include pictures\begin{document}\vpagecolor{blue}\foilhead{Top 3 reasons to emigrate}\begin{enumerate}\item Rosengren \pause\item Sahlin \pause\item Winberg\end{enumerate}\end{document}
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Creating your PDF file
• pdflatex document.tex
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Creating your PDF file
• pdflatex document.tex
• ppower4 document.pdf presentation.pdf
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Creating your PDF file
• pdflatex document.tex
• ppower4 document.pdf presentation.pdf
• If you want to generate handouts
– Look at the Makefile on
http://www.idt.mdh.se/~kpt/ppower4
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Creating your PDF file
• pdflatex document.tex
• ppower4 document.pdf presentation.pdf
• If you want to generate handouts
– Look at the Makefile on
http://www.idt.mdh.se/~kpt/ppower4
– You probably want to redefine colors before printing.
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Setting the page footer
• Use \MyLogo{text} to set the footer.
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Setting the page footer
• Use \MyLogo{text} to set the footer.
• Example (used on this page):
\MyLogo{{\sf PPower4} \hfill Kjell Post \hfill\includegraphics[scale=0.25]{mdh.pdf}}
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Setting the page footer
• Use \MyLogo{text} to set the footer.
• Example (used on this page):
\MyLogo{{\sf PPower4} \hfill Kjell Post \hfill\includegraphics[scale=0.25]{mdh.pdf}}
• Why doesn’t the footer appear immediately?
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Setting the page footer
• Use \MyLogo{text} to set the footer.
• Example (used on this page):
\MyLogo{{\sf PPower4} \hfill Kjell Post \hfill\includegraphics[scale=0.25]{mdh.pdf}}
• Why doesn’t the footer appear immediately?
• You need a \pause before the next page and. . .
\MyLogo{\pauselevel{=1} ... }
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Some tips and techniques
• Use xpdf for development and Acrobat Reader for
presentations.
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Some tips and techniques
• Use xpdf for development and Acrobat Reader for
presentations.
• xpdf doesn’t handle transitions but . . .
• xpdf can reload the current PDF file—press ’r’.
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Some tips and techniques
• Use xpdf for development and Acrobat Reader for
presentations.
• xpdf doesn’t handle transitions but . . .
• xpdf can reload the current PDF file—press ’r’.
• In Acrobat Reader, set “advance on any click” in Full
screen options if you want to use a cordless mouse.
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Open questions
• What are pleasant colors for presentations?
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Open questions
• What are pleasant colors for presentations?
• Turning off background colors for printing.
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Open questions
• What are pleasant colors for presentations?
• Turning off background colors for printing.
• Turning off the \pause command for printing?
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Open questions
• What are pleasant colors for presentations?
• Turning off background colors for printing.
• Turning off the \pause command for printing?
\let\pause=\relax doesn’t always work.
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Open questions
• What are pleasant colors for presentations?
• Turning off background colors for printing.
• Turning off the \pause command for printing?
\let\pause=\relax doesn’t always work.
• Using the mouse to go backwards?
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