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This document provides an example of how to prepare a set of useful presentations documents based on LaTeX and output as PDF slides. The advantage of this is that the acrobat reader will work to read and display these presentations on any computer. In contrast with raster image presentation methods, the files are small, and the quality is extremely high. The presentations are not tied to using a computer, or portable computer connected to a projector running at any fixed resolution.

This package is entirely in LaTeX using the pdflatex options and requires some basic understanding of unix, using scripts. To have the system work, you must have access to the Type I scalable fonts. Images which are used must be converted to pdf, tiff, or jpg format and this can be done using the convert routines in ImageMagick package. Since the presentations are done using acrobat, they are quite simple to manage in any environment. Use the control-L keys to make the presentation full size. You can step through the presentation using the page up and page down buttons on the keyboard.

The pdfslides package is availabe in pdfslides.tar.gz . The purpose of this is really to illustrate how to set up latex to provide high quality output. In particular, the use of large scalable fonts is illustrated.

The documentation is basic, however it takes you through processing the documents by example (i.e., follow the README file, and compare the documents and scripts with the results). The packages require basic understanding of unix shell scripts, however a novice does not have to modify any of these.

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