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What is PresTiMeL ?
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PresTiMeL is a tool to create presentations from a XML-file. For each
slide, PresTiMeL will create one (or a set of) HTML-file(s), which can
be shown in a Web browser of your choice. Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
are used to define, how big a text-item has to be, which font and color
it should have, etc. So you will need a Web browser, which supports CSS,
like Netscape 4.* or Internet Explorer 4.*.
Example presentation :
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After compiling and installing the program (see the INSTALL-file), change
to the directory "doc/example" and type "prestimel example.xml".
The presentation will be written to HTML-files and you can start browsing
with "01.html" (the first slide) or "index.html" (the table of contents).
You can also generate a LaTeX-file of the example presentation, which can
be used to print handouts, by executing "prestimel -l example.xml". The
resulting LaTeX-file will have the name "presentation.tex".
Start PresTiMeL with the commandline-option "-h" for a list of all
commandline-options. For example : try "prestimel -tplasma example.xml"
to use the plasma-theme for the presentation.
Advantages of PresTiMeL :
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* You can write your presentation in an editor of your choice. You don't have
to take care of graphics- and layout-stuff. So you can concentrate yourself
on the contents of your presentation.
* For the layout and look-alike, you just select a theme. So if you don't like
one theme, just try another one.
* The presentation itself is independend from platform and Web browser.
All you need is a browser which supports CSS.
* You can create a LaTeX-file of the presentation which can be used to
create handouts of all slides.
Disadvantages of PresTiMeL :
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* It is not possible to create such fancy transition-animations like you may
know from Powerpoint. Well, I think this kind of stuff just diverts from
the presentation, so I don't think, this is really a disadvantage :-)
Of course it may be possible to play around with JavaScript and DHTML.
But this stuff depends on the Web browser, so I decided to use only
standard CSS-features which will work on both, Navigator and IE.
* The presentation will only work for one screen-resolution (800x600 or
1024x768), because it is not possible to scale the output of the slides,
like Powerpoint does.
* You must test your presentation on the target-platform, so you can be sure,
that there will be no unexpected surprises.
* It is not possible to change the slide just by pressing space (or another
key). You have to click on a "previous"- or "next"-button, which will be
shown on each slide.
A possibility would be using JavaScript to process key-events. But again,
this stuff depends on the Web browser, so I don't want to use it.
* There is no possibillity to draw some lines on the slide to mark some
important parts or to do something like that.
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