[tlug] Re: Alternatives to MS-Powerpoint?

["Gernot Hassenpflug" <aikishugyo@example.com>]

Jim Breen wrote:

> Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 09:15:43 +1000
> From: "Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com>
> Subject: [tlug] Re: Alternatives to MS-Powerpoint?
>
> BABA Yoshihiko <babayoshihiko@example.com> wrote:
>
> > I've used Latex Beamer for my presentation. You write the source in
> > plain
> > text, then generate a PDF file. Acrobat Reader and many other PDF
> > readers
> > have Presentation mode. For me, living in Windows dominating world, I
> > have never had any problem with my beamer generated PDF presentation.
>
> EXACTLY what I've been looking for. I've been using WWW pages for
> presentations for years, most recently W3C's "slidemaker". I've looked
> enviously at people's slick PDFs, but never found a good way to write them.
> Beamer seams to do it easily. Better still; it turns out I've had it right
> here for the last 18 mo, as it came in the FDC distro.

Hello,

I've had good results with ppower4 for presentations, and sciposter
for large posters.
With the latest CJK and UTF-8 additions to TeXLive, Japanese input is
comparatively straightforward, and no longer dependent on shift-JIS
encoding (which meant no mixing with other languages other than
English). As an example of sciposter where I've added some Japanese to
the first line of the poster, see:

http://www.aikishugyo.dnsdojo.org/pdf/p.pdf

Regards,
  Gernot
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Gernot Hassenpflug
Researcher, NICT, Tokyo