Making slides in LTEX with Prosper
Frédéric Goualard, Peter Møller Neergaard · 2004
The prosper class permits producing high quality slides; it is also easily extendable. This documentation is meant to be a user manual as well as a technical note describing how to create your own styles. 1 Using the class LTEX files using the prosper class may be eventually translated into two different formats: • the Adobe PostScript format for printing transparencies; • the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) for displaying slides on computers with Acrobat Reader in full-screen mode. When translated into PDF files, prosper slides benefit from additional possibilities such as transition effects between slides and incremental display of a slide with several animation effects. The currently supported transitions are: • Split: two lines sweep across the screen revealing the new slide; • Blinds: multiple lines, evenly distributed across the screen, appear and synchronously sweep in the same direction to reveal the new slide; • Box: a box sweeps from the center, revealing the new slide; • Wipe: a single line sweeps across the screen from one edge to the other, revealing the new slide; • Dissolve: the old page image dissolves to reveal the new slide; • Glitter: similar to Dissolve, except the effect sweeps across the image in a wide band moving from one side of the screen to the other; • Replace: the effect is simply to replace the old page with the new page. Figure 1 presents a bird’s-eye view of the structure of a LTEX file using the prosper class.