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The software and the manual-pages are ready to be tested and used. These 61 pages of documentation describe version PPresenter v1.17 (published 2002/08/12). It contains description of the functionality, and a few tutorials.

Please contribute to this document. You can see what kind of information is lacking. Maybe someone is willing to correct my English (it's not my native language, as you may have guessed).

• Perl/Tk
  • How to get Perl for UNIX or Window32.
  • Learning Perl
  • Optional packages for PPresenter.

• Running a presentation.
  There are three ways to run a presentation:
  • Write a runnable perl-program using the PPresenter modules.
  • Run the same perl-program with the command present(1).
  • XML: Write the presentation in xml, and run it with the present command.

• Structure of a show.
  Read this to start understanding how the library is structured.
  A show has
  • initiation via command-line options or the show's creation method new().
  • a list of slides
    • which have for each viewport a slide-view. Each view is written in a certain style, contain the style-elements:
      • Decoration: Solid.
      • Dynamics: default.
      • Fontset: Tk-fonts, Scalable X-fonts.
      • Formatter: Plain, Simple, Markup.
      • Template: Default.
      and, at runtime
      • for each view a program to be played.
      find, select, or change style elements.
      Debugging, designing, and creation of styles.
  • Images created with Tk::Photo or Image::Magick.
  • a list of viewports showing slides.
  • one control viewport, which shows slide notes, names of the neighbouring slides, a slide-buttons bar, and a progress bar.
  • a background menu is hidden behind the right mouse-button in a viewport with controls.
  • via a popup window, or via the controling viewport, you can control the timing of the show, selecting slides, and manage tagged slides.
  Sorted index of all options.

• Tutorials:
  • Brief presentation description.
  • Possibilities to denote strings in Perl.
  • Detailed guide how to create a presentation and how to use PPresenter for it.
  • Differences between HTML and the Markup formatter.

• Export slides to various formats:
  • Convert slides into images.
  • Convert slides into postscript document.
  • Convert presentation into a website.

• FAQ (Frequently asked questions)

• Missing:
  • Handling of fonts other than ISO-8859-1,
  • Mailing-lists.

Questions?