Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 22:33:50 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More thoughts about slides Message-ID: <20040905203350.GB46611@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20040905195932.GG1107@freebsdmall.com> References: <20040905195932.GG1107@freebsdmall.com>
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On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 12:59:32PM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: [...] > As far as tools, I've recently added support for USE_FOP and USE_XEP > since PassiveTeX does not support the background-image property that I > wanted for my stylesheet layer. XEP seems to be the clear leader for > generating PDF output, but it is a commercial product. Apache's free > FOP tool (java) is quite good. > > Any thoughts or suggestions about this process? If you're in the > habit of giving presentations about FreeBSD, what would you look for > to consider a DocBook/XML based solution over other (WYSIWYG) tools? [...] I use to do slides with prosper, it's very flexible and just uses the vanilla teTeX port; therefore no problem to generate the pdf file. I would use DocBook slides just for very simple slides without animation, graphics or sophisticated layout. In fact last time I looked in DocBook slides, I realised that it'd require a lot of work to do a custom complicated layout. It's why we really need some good templates to use. Marc
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