Re: Debian "eyecatcher" Project

From: Martin Zobel-Helas <mhelas@helas.net>
Date: Sun Jan 09 2005 - 11:22:28 CET

Hi Geert,

On Sunday, 09 Jan 2005, you wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:10:37AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> > Hi Andreas,
> >
> > On Sunday, 09 Jan 2005, you wrote:
> <snip/>
> > > I'm in the process of switching form MagicPoint to latex-beamer.
> > > While MagicPoint is quite fine, latex-beamer has (besides much
> > > more featureful) the big advantage that you get plain PDF output
> > > which is run by AcroRead. Just imagine you want to run your
> > > presentation on a machine you have no chance to install MagicPoint ...
> > >
> > > BTW, we just also think about kind of common latex-beamer theme for
> > > Debian talks as well.
> >
> > I thought about using latex-beamer for eyecatcher as well. The most
> > important fact which made me decide not to use latex-beamer is, we would
> > need to use commercial software.
> There is nothing wrong with commercial[1] software when it is free[2].
>
> What is the non-free part of latex-beamer?
no, but you need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Greetings
Martin

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