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Re: pdfscreen -- latex presentation viewer



On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Floris Bruynooghe wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:22:50AM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
> > 
> > Is anyone here willing to take on the maintenance of the pdfscreen package 
> > (it allows the generation of pretty pdf presentations with latex)?  It has 
> > now been removed from debian, after being orphaned for 2 years, but 
> > perhaps it is not too much work for someone who knows how to do this kind 
> > of thing, to get it back?
> > 
> > See bug 214928.  There are 4 wishlist bugs to pdfscreen that would want to 
> > be reopened or resolved if this were to be revived.
> 
> Any specific reason why pdfscreen is better then latex-beamer?

Haven't used latex-beamer.

pdfscreen has nice navigation controls on the side of the pdf -- dunno 
whether latex-beamer can do that.  Adding navigation and launch buttons, 
colours, on the fly colour themes (works well when you discover that the 
projector you are going to be displaying on has a dying faded tube), works 
well with ppower4 post processor


Personally, pdfscreen is better then latex-beamer because my presentations 
have been customised to work with pdfscreen :)

-- 
TimC
Experiments must be reproducible; they should all fail in the same way.



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