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1. Beamer powerpoint how to#
2. Beamer powerpoint movie#
3. Beamer powerpoint pdf#
4. Beamer powerpoint install#

The convert command comes with ImageMagick.

Beamer powerpoint pdf#

Make yourself a new directory and put your PDF in there, then say convert -density 300 -trim whatever.pdf out%003d.png

Beamer powerpoint install#

You can install it with your package manager. The power of command-line image editing will change your outlook on life. The first step is to install ImageMagick, if you don’t have it already. I’d be happy to hear from anyone who has a better, or alternative, method.įirst, I assume your PDF is already in the form of a Beamer or similar presentation, appropriately paginated. But it works, and preserves the appearance of your slides. The result is not ideal, as all the text will be converted into images. Here are the steps to making your PDF into an Impress document that your colleague can happily open in PowerPoint. It does a pretty good job in reading and writing files that are compatible with the Microsoft original. If you interact with normal people regularly you’ve probably, with reluctance, installed LibreOffice or OpenOffice, and know about Impress, its PowerPoint imitation.

Beamer powerpoint how to#

Let’s say you have to do it.Īnd let’s say you’re on Linux-because I have no idea how to do this on any other system. For example, she might want to add notes to the slides using a method that is familiar to her. It could be that she even has a rational reason for asking you to produce a cardboard model of the Notre Dame Cathedral. Let’s say, for some reason, you are not in a position, or prefer not to, ignore this person. Anyway, you’re in possession of a typographically exacting and visually harmonious document that you are proud to project at conferences and pass around to your colleagues.Īnd then one of these colleagues asks for a “PowerPoint version” of your slides. Or maybe you’ve crafted a beautiful PDF using another program entirely (but what on Earth would that be?). Bye.Let’s say you have a beautiful presentation that you’ve put together using Beamer, or some other LaTeX style, or perhaps ConTeXt, or some other TeX format, or even, if you’re an old-time TeX wizard, Plain TeX. It's a dream come true.Įdit 2: Wow, your LaTeX community is weirdly toxic and hostile.

Beamer powerpoint movie#

I automatically converted my Beamer PDF to ppt and fixed the formulas with IguanaTeX, and omg - I could have saved hours and hours of work if I had done that years earlier!! No more recompiling everything for every little typo you find! No more playing around with the size of an image! No more stupid \column etc etcĮdit: Omg, I just embedded a movie into my presentation by dragging and dropping it right onto the page.

(Like everyone else - maybe? I feel like most ppl still use Beamer these days.) The basic problem I always had with that is that this goes against the spirit of TeX: With a presentation you NEED fine control of typesetting, especially if you have images - and don't get me started on embedded movies.īut now I found a much better solution: Powerpoint+IguanaTeX, a plugin for PPt. I used to make all my presentations with LaTeX beamer, starting around 2005.