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h is this feel free to redistribute this document as much as you want just don t remove the author credit i think that s the freebsd documentation license software for creating and presenting slides there are plenty of software packages which can do a good job of presenting slides there are three major categories dedicated presentation programs are programs designed to present slides they usually have their own language for describing slides and some of them include editing tools to help you design and edit your slides the main advantage of this approach are that you re using a tool designed for the job browser html based solutions use html as the language for describing slides to display them you use a web browser such as firefox usually in fullscreen mode you can write the html by hand use an html editor or use a special tool aimed at creating html presentations advantages of this approach include portability flexibility and ease of showing your slides on the web and you can do equations with some difficulty using mathml disadvantages mainly involve difficulties in styling html and browser portability issues the author prefers html for her own presentations there are some tips for html presentations later in this document pdf based solutions use pdf as the slide language most people who use pdf slides seem to use acroread as their presentation tool but evince and others also work advantage it s portable and in a pinch you can always find a machine that can display pdf at least to some extent disadvantage neither the viewers nor the creation tools are usually very flexible and multimedia like animations or effects aren t an option presentation tool roundup dedicated presentation programs browser html based solutions pdf based solutions other solutions dedicated presentation programs app strengths weaknesses open office impress fairly mature wysiwyg creation tool can import export powerpoint and other formats at least to some extent animation and effects may not work true fullscreen mode may be able to export to html to put on the web afterward or pdf for printing very heavyweight to install and use may be too much for some laptops awkward and buggy powerpoint export is limited and buggy kpresenter koffice designed for the purpose wysiwyg creation tool some animation effects piecharts etc can import export html some limited powerpoint fullscreen no frame mode editor is somewhat awkward to use somewhat heavyweight drags in koffice dcop lots of chatter on stdout powerpoint support seems fairly limited magicpoint designed for the purpose relatively small and lightweight fairly simple text format files true fullscreen no frame mode the only choice that can draw over the panel can scribble on slides during presentations not many tools for creating content must learn special language or copy templates annoying vffont error messages avoid by running mgp x vflib pinpoint designed for the purpose fairly simple text format files can embed commands to run demos in slides seems fairly new 2011 not sure how solid it is need to gather dependencies and build from source ultrapoint designed for the purpose works with image magick to scale images requires ggi and other libs many people don t have even then didn t work for me vflib initialization failed no tools for creating content no man page no output in html or other standard formats may be unmaintained has been dropped from debian bruce slides are just plaintext files handles video and interactive python sessions documentation and support might be a little sketchy impressive formerly keyjnote offers slide transitions and other effects simple lightweight python highlight boxes and spotlight effects fairly new may not be mature yet applixware presents look and feel familiar to powerpoint users applixware seems to be orphaned the boxed version currently available several years old is apparently flaky browser html based solutions app strengths weaknesses s5 an easy way of generating html css slides a bit slow at displaying may be processor intensive pylize a python script lightweight and simple generates html output can be edited as needed plies perl script generates html output can be edited as needed takahashi method xul presentation tool slide syntax is simple to edit not really html so works only in mozilla apparently deprecated in favor of the monta method which is documented only in japanese w3c html slidy switching off javascript shows all slidse w3c slidemaker tool perl script generates html output can be edited as needed older than pylize and plies doesn t seem to have key bindings e g next slide php presentation system keyboard controls and special effects available must be running a web server on the presentation machine a bit slow to load at least i never make it to the actual presentation on the page pinpoint a gimp plug in for generating slides as jpeg can apparently generate html too may be orphaned only available for obsolete gimp 1 2 if you get errors about map try changing map to mapcar in line 54 opera show online composition tool style sheets may be opera specific not sure tips and tools for html presentations you can write a lightlight html fullscreen presentation program in about 40 lines of python for example see my webkit preso program firefox has a fullscreen mode press f11 to toggle in and out you still need to maximize the window and you ll still see a titlebar and your windowmanager s panel if any you can turn them off with view toolbars navigation controls make a separate mozilla profile to use for giving presentations so you can hide the urlbar and so forth without affecting your normal mozilla environment then you can add an entry to your panel or menu system to call mozilla p presenter substitute your profile name alternately you can make the urlbar disappear automatically when you switch to fullscreen mode with this addition to user js in firefox toolbar menubar moz collapsed true nav bar display none important in seamonkey main menubar moz collapsed true nav bar display none important some ways to advance to the next slide with a one key command easy way requires no fancy html or javascript go through all the pages in order before the presentation then go back to the first one and use alt rightarrow to advance css to make your presentation all one document one slide per page then use spacebar and page up down keys to move around disadvantage shows a scrollbar use page accesskeys and light javascript then you can move around with keys like alt n and alt p as in this bugzilla fosdem talk by gervase markham note this may not work well if you rebind your mozilla accel key use heavier javascript so you can trap keys like spacebar forward and back arrows and page up down you can do this with your slides all in separate html files like in this example by the author or you can put them all in one big file as with this bitflux fosdem talk or with meyer web s s5 if you re dying for effects like bullets scrolling in from the side that s easily done with javascript more complicated animations are probably best done in mng or animated gif create with gimp image magick or gifsicle there are supposedly free flash creation tools but i ve never figured them out myself a useful collection of slides from presentations using mozilla can be found at the eu mozdev org fosdem site browser svg based solutions app strengths weaknesses sozi uses an inkscape plug in will include support for html5 audio video elements create viewports onto a large svg composition some sample presentations jessyink creates presentations in inkscape can also create pdf lots of animation effects demo slides describing jessyink another demo social web pdf based and other solutions app strengths weaknesses pdf viewers such as xpdf evince the non free acroread etc good control over fonts sizes can make presentation available as a whitepaper afterward you may already have pdf for some or all of your slides lots of software available for creating pdf can borrow a laptop without worrying if your slides will work no problem with integrated equations no one will want to download your whitepaper because pdf is a pain pdf viewer apps are heavyweight sometimes unreliable pdf creation tools are also heavyweight no animations effects transitions etc bloat e g graphic backgrounds get stored redundantly for each slide any image viewer i m partial to pho since i wrote it but there are lots of choices such as ee and xv many available small and lightweight content creation tools are well understood might not have to learn anything new hard to put into fullscreen mode tied to a specific resolution image creation tools e g gimp are heavyweight and less flexible for text manipulation tips and tools for pdf presentations latex has tools for producing slides such as latex beamer latex can be converted to ps pdf or html see this latex2pdf page for some suggestions and here s a tutorial for making slides in latex you can produce pdf slides with packages such as seminar prosper foiltex or slitex or using xml combined with a system like axpoint or reportlab s pythonpoint pspresent is a tool for presenting postscript slides here s a good tutorial for prosper with some simple example slides reading the examples that come with prosper are also helpful the moment of truth connecting to the projector here s a nice howto on configuring x for connecting to projectors some additional tips i ve found if you use an xorg conf file include some common lower resolutions like add 800x600 and 640x480 then use ctl alt keypadplus and minus to cycle through resolutions live ctl alt keypadplus and minus may not work in all xorg setups in newer xorgs with some graphics cards especially intel use xrandr to control resolution and send the signal to the projector this command works on my current laptop xrandr output vga mode 1024x768 when i m done and no longer want to send to the projector i run xrandr auto however this doesn t always work either some projectors are picky about whether the machine is sending a signal already when it s plugged in or whether it sees a signal during power up if you don t get a signal at first keep trying on my vaio i find it s sometimes helpful to run the xrandr command mentioned above then suspend the laptop and un suspend it while still connected to the projector some projectors especially older ones require a strong signal and won t work with a laptop that s displaying both to the external video port and to its own lcd this can be a problem on laptops such as my older vaio where the display is software controlled and there s no linux tool to switch to external only mode i haven t found a solution besides complaining to the laptop manufacturer and using a newer projector some machines especially older ones like my first vaio have no software controlled way of switching the external signal on and off instead the bios turns on an external signal if it sees an external monitor or projector plugged in at boot time so if all else fails try rebooting with the projector connected with this sort of laptop i recommend booting at home with a monitor connected suspending then leaving the machine suspended until you get to the talk try adding this option in the device section of the xorg conf file option display bios on some laptops such as dell that enables the function key that switches between lcd and crt and also allows the docking station to detect the external monitor and automatically switch to crt mode thanks to justin gaither nvidia powered laptops have something called twinview which provide full support for switching between displays check the nvidia readme txt appendix i configuring twinview for lots of detail here s a pointer to nvidia s xfree86 4 0 page thanks to jos thalen for the nvidia information i m sure there are other tricks for other laptops and distros this is an important section so please help me out if you have something to add here of course always show up as early as possible in case there are problems hooking up this applies no matter what os you re running windows and mac users have just as much difficulty connecting to projectors as linux users do remote presenter devices what about those remote presenter gizmos where you can press buttons to advance a slide while pacing back and forth on the other side of the room from your pc no problem most of them are implemented as generic usb keyboard devices and will work just fine with linux i have a logitech cordless presenter and love it battery life is amazing too be aware that presenters don t all send the same key sequences some send page up down some send up down arrow some apparently look like a mouse and send right left mouse clicks so you may need to check your presentation tool if you re using pdf or scroll down css you may want to look for one which sends page up down if you re using openoffice it probably follows the normal powerpoint conventions and will work with most tools if you re using html and javascript then you can use anything as long as you make sure your js obeys the right keys a note on sharing slides your choice of slide format may affect how easy it is to share your slides with the world html slides are easy to put on a website so they re accessible to anyone be aware though that sites like slideshare won t accept html so you might lose out on any social networking benefit from slideshare just about everyone can read pdf slides so you can put those on the web and let people download the presentation they have to download the whole thing though you can t just point to one slide openoffice can save in powerpoint format but it will lose animations and may lose formatting and transition effects powerpoint isn t as ubiquitous as some people seem to think not all windows users have powerpoint it doesn t come free with windows so it s really not a great format for sharing it s usually the only format accepted by non open source conferences though open source conferences usually specify that your slides should be odp openoffice s native format you can freely ignore this and give them a pdf or a tarball of html slides when they say odp they really mean an open format not powerpoint and they haven t considered the possibility that anyone would use something besides openoffice special formats used by programs like kpresenter or magicpoint while open will be hard for most people to display and aren t a great choice for sharing some conclusions warning personal opinion for my own presentations i prefer using html and firefox i already have the tools i already know html and i like being able to put the presentation on the web without doing any extra work people used to powerpoint and gui tools might be happiest with kpresenter the ui is a bit rough but it is flexible and wysiwyg people who already work with latex and pdf will probably prefer that format for presentations people who need to be compatible with powerpoint perhaps because...