Presentation with Latex (beamer)

LaTex beamer

“Beamer is a LaTeX document class for creating presentation slides, with a wide range of templates and a set of features for making slideshow effects.” (wikipedia)

supports

• pdfLaTeX
• LaTeX
• dvips
• LuaLaTeX
• XeLaTeX

process

• install linux LaTex
• use documentclass beamer (in x.tex file)
• translate tex file into pdf file: pdflatex beamer.tex

good starting points

• LaTex beamer examples (Uni Freiburg)
• LaTex beamer tex file tutorial on Youtube
• LaTex beamer on wikipedia

themes

• Ritsumeikan theme
• Warsaw
• Hanover
• CambridgeUS

LaTex foiltex

solid and small solution for minimalistic presentations

latex x.tex
dvi2ps x.dvi > x.ps
ps2pdf x.ps 
qpdfview x.pdf