>>>>> "David" == David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org> writes: David> Glen Snyder <gsnyder@rice.edu> writes: >> 2. Can anyone strongly recommend another latex package (Prosper?) >> supplied by debian that would allow me to insert a bunch of EPS >> figures and math formulas, and produce an electronic presentation >> that can run on Acrobat Reader. David> I taught a short Java class in January and made slides using David> Prosper. It worked great (and *much* better than trying to use David> Magicpoint last year); I used 'xpdf -fullscreen -papercolor David> black' to actually run the slides, since xpdf is (a) free and (b) David> much smaller and faster than acroread. I've used prosper as well, and it worked pretty well for me. As David mentioned, the slides look horrible in xdvi, but nobody uses xdvi to view slides. It's probably common for all/most LaTeX-based presentation packages, because they most likely use PS/PDF tricks to do the pretty backgrounds, etc. I've tried out most of the other LaTeX presentation packages, and prosper seemed to be the best. I don't remember why, though. But at least one of the reasons was that it has some very nice templates. One caveat with prosper is that all the templates are made for A4 paper, so if you're in North America, and you want to print out your slides, you'll have to do some tweaking. (Or else buy some A4 paper. Does anyone know where to get A4 paper in Canada?) If you need to do this, email me, and I'll dig up the command that I used to make it use US-Letter paper. (IIRC, it wasn't perfect, but it was good enough.) -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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