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KPresenter. Calligra Stage (previously KPresenter) is a free presentation program that is part of the Calligra Suite, an integrated office suite by KDE. Calligra Stage's native format is OpenDocument.[3] Stage is also able to load presentation documents from Microsoft PowerPoint, MagicPoint, and OpenOffice Impress.[4] UltraPoint. MagicPoint Official Homepage.

Linux for Presentations. Akkana Peck Contents Introduction and Motivation This Mini-HOWTO is aimed at people who have a laptop running linux, and want to use it to give presentations via a computer screen projector using free software, rather than use proprietary tools such as powerpoint. When I first wrote this HOWTO, I had very little experience presenting slides (though since then I've gotten quite a bit). I wrote it partly because I needed to research the options for an upcoming talk of my own, and partly because I was tired of seeing presenters at linux and open source gatherings using powerpoint because they didn't know there were other options or didn't have time to research them. The latest version of this howto lives at Contributors: Akkana Peck wrote this howto. 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: Presentation tool roundup: MagicPoint. MagicPoint is one of several open source presentation programs,[2] often used to produce slides for conferences.[3] Unlike most presentation programs, such as Microsoft PowerPoint, where a GUI is used to create slides, MagicPoint slides are created by writing text files using a simple markup language. The resulting file is then displayed with MagicPoint's X11-based viewer.

History[edit] MagicPoint was originally created in the autumn of 1997, at a WIDE Project camp. It was originally known as tp, standing for TinyPoint,[4] but in December the name was changed to MagicPoint.[5] Features[edit] Content is written in text files and formatting is indicated by text features. Another feature of MagicPoint is the ability to draw on slides during a presentation.[2] By pressing x on the keyboard, the slide can temporarily be scribbled on with red "ink".[9] Shift x allows you to cycle through other pen colours. References[edit] External links[edit] And now we present... Posted by: Jeff Grimes, Software Engineer Earlier this year, we told you that in addition to documents and spreadsheets, we'd soon be adding support for presentations as well. We know you've been waiting, and today we're excited to invite you to try out presentations for yourself at Just like Google documents and spreadsheets, presentations are stored securely online, so you can access them from anywhere using only a web browser.

Working together with one or more people to put together a killer presentation? Not a problem, just like with documents and spreadsheets, you can collaborate with others and see everyone's changes in real time. If you're new to Google Docs, check out this video to learn more: If you're starting your presentation from scratch, you can pick from several pre-defined themes and layouts; if you already have a presentation, you can import that as well. Google Docs. An example of a document in Google Docs Google Docs is a free, web-based office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service.

It was formerly a storage service as well, but has since been replaced by Google Drive.[3] It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating with other users live. Google Docs combines the features of Writely and Spreadsheets with a presentation program incorporating technology designed by Tonic Systems. Data storage of files was introduced on January 12, 2010 with 1 GB of free space. History[edit] Writely's beta logo Google Docs originated from two separate products, Writely and Google Spreadsheets. Spreadsheets, launched as Google Labs Spreadsheets on June 6, 2006,[7] originated from the acquisition of the XL2Web product by 2Web Technologies. Writely originally ran on Microsoft ASP.NET technology which uses Microsoft Windows.

In February 2007, Google Docs was made available to Google Apps users. Features[edit] File limits[edit] Impress. Impress your audience with your presentations! Impress is a truly outstanding tool for creating effective multimedia presentations. Your presentations will stand out with 2D and 3D clip art, special effects, animation, and high-impact drawing tools. Master Pages simplify the task of preparing your materials. Save even more time by downloading templates from our Templates repository. Complete range of Views are supported: Drawing / Outline / Slides / Notes / Handouts to meet all the needs of presenters and audiences, plus an optional multi-pane view to put all the tools at your fingertips.

Multiple monitors support so that presenters can have additional materials or notes while presenting their slides on a projector. Easy-to-use drawing and diagramming tools - a complete range to spice up your presentation. Slide show Animation and Effects bring your presentation to life. .odp Standard - Save your presentations in OpenDocument format, the new international standard for office documents. OpenOffice.org Impress. OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, was an open-source office suite. It was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use. Sun open-sourced the software in July 2000 as a competitor to Microsoft Office,[9][10] releasing version 1.0 on 1 May 2002.[1] The project was closed by Oracle Corporation, the then-owner of Sun, in April 2011.[11] Active successor projects include Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice and NeoOffice.

OpenOffice.org's default file format was the OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO/IEC standard, which originated with OpenOffice.org. It could also read a wide variety of other file formats, with particular attention to those from Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org contained a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), a presentation application (Impress), a drawing application (Draw), a formula editor (Math), and a database management application (Base).[12] History[edit] Governance[edit] Naming[edit] Beamer (LaTeX) Beamer is a LaTeX document class for creating slides for presentations. It supports both pdfLaTeX and LaTeX + dvips. The name is taken from the German word Beamer, a pseudo-anglicism for video projector. The beamer class is not the first LaTeX class for creating presentations, and like many of its predecessors, it has special syntax for defining 'slides' (known in Beamer as 'frames'). Slides can be built up on-screen in stages as if by revealing text that was previously hidden or covered.

This is handled with PDF output by creating successive pages that preserve the layout but add new elements, so that advancing to the next page in the PDF file appears to add something to the displayed page, when in fact it has redrawn the page. Source code for beamer presentations, like any other LaTeX file, can be created using any text editor, but there is specific support for beamer syntax in AUCTEX and LyX. Beamer depends on PGF for some of its features. How to make a presentation with Latex - Introduction to Beamer - Installing the Beamer class You will first need to install the package Beamer.

Under Debian or Ubuntu, you can type the following command: # apt-get install latex-beamer Once the latex-class Beamer is installed, you are definitely ready to stat your first presentation!!! Basic presentation with Beamer \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usetheme{Warsaw} \title[Make a LaTeX presentation using Beamer]{Introduction to Beamer\\How to make a presentation with LaTeX?} A few explanations: \documentclass{beamer} means that our document is a Beamer presentation \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} this package enables us to use special letters (with accents, cedillas, etc). \usetheme{Warsaw} This is our outer theme (color and background).

\title[Making a LaTeX presentation with Beamer]{Introduction to Beamer\\How to make a LaTeX presentation?} This defines the title of the presentation. The first one, between brackets. \author{Nadir Soualem -- Astozzia} defines Nadir Soualem and Astozzia (us!) The LaTeX Beamer Class. The LaTeX Beamer Class Homepage. The KOffice Project - KPresenter.