Hendri Adriaens writes:
powerdot is a new presentation class for LaTeX that allows for the quick and easy development of professional presentations. It comes with many tools that enhance presentations and aid the presenter.
The class is fully functional, tested and well documented. A short overview of features:
- portrait and landscape slides
- screen ratio, a4 paper and letter paper
- simple interface for making presentations fast
- DVI, PS or PDF output can be used for viewing
- powerful template system to easily develop new styles
- easy overlays creations
- personal notes
- handout mode
- black slide
etcetera
The class currently comes with 6 different styles, but work is being done to add more styles. Furthermore, also a layout file for LyX users is currently being developed. A mailinglist is available for asking questions or providing feedback.
See for more information the PDF documentation that comes with the class.
Background
While working on HA-prosper, it was found that some problems with the prosper class could not be solved by a package. A new class, called TeXciting, was announced to solve these issues. Over time, the class changed name to powerdot.
This class should be considered as a replacement for the prosper plus HA-prosper combination and can do everything that HA-prosper did and more. The class is a fully new implementation of the ideas behind HA-prosper, but in a totally new fashion, so that both simplification of the user interface and simplification of the designer interface could be accomplished. However, changes necessary to convert presentations from HA-prosper to powerdot will be minimal.
In that respect, support for HA-prosper will be decreased over time and users are adviced to use powerdot for new presentations.
We hope that you will enjoy the new class.
-Hendri Adriaens -Christopher Ellison
i've installed the new class in ctan:macros/latex/contrib/powerdot (as hendri suggested), and made a new entry in the catalogue.
thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team