Active-DVI is a DVI previewer and a
programmable presenter for slides written in LaTeX.
To preview DVI files, Active-DVI features:
- Color anti-aliasing.
- Inclusion of images (via the Camlimages package) with alpha
channel and blending.
- Encapsulated Postscript File inclusion (using graphics macros package).
- Gpic specials to display pictures.
- Correct treatment of many (but not all) inlined-Postscript specials.
- Page background settings.
- Japanese pTeX DVI extension support
(screen shot).
To present your DVI files, Active-DVI features:
- Basic effects for presentation (pause, delay, dynamic text color change).
- Annotations displayed on demand (similar to pop-up balloons).
- Hyper links from slide to slide or to other files (including DVI files).
- Replay of previously recorded parts of the display.
- Text movements.
- Page transitions.
- Embedded applications (launched and killed on demand from within.
the presentation text source), with precise security policy.
- Scratching on slide to interactively modify the text on screen.
Active-DVI special effects are set and launched from within your
LaTeX source file via the macros of the advi.sty
LaTeX package provided by the distribution.
In addition, Caml hackers can program new and fancy Active-DVI effects in the
source code of the presenter.
The Active-DVI user's manual is available in format
DVI, PS, and
PDF.
Installation of Active-DVI
You need Objective Caml 3.06 to compile the sources.
You also need the `kpsewhich' utility of the `kpathsea' library
provided by the TeX distributions.
Source distribution
- Simple installation.
- ADK
- the Active-DVI Development Kit. The complete and functionnal set
of Active-DVI's source files and Caml libraries that it uses (in
particular camlimages).
- Advanced installation
- Note:
- For the maximum performance, Active-DVI requires the
camlimages library.
If you have not yet installed this library, we recommend to
download the ADK (it is a big tar ball of Active-DVI and
camlimages, with a fully-automated-with-luck installation Makefile).
- For hackers only
- the Active-DVI source
version only (You should already have camlimages installed!)
- For impatient hackers only
-
The current CVS version of Active-DVI is available at the
Caml Anonymous CVS repository.
If you find a bug drop a message to advi-bugs@pauillac.inria.fr.
If you want to get in touch with the implementors (to contribute
some new ideas or lines of code) write to advi@pauillac.inria.fr.
If you want to subscribe to the Active-DVI mailing list, write to
advi-list-request@pauillac.inria.fr.
Jun Furuse,
Pierre Weis,
Didier Rémy,
Xavier Leroy,
Didier Le Botlan,
Alan Schmitt,
Roberto Di Cosmo,
Alexandre Miquel
Acknowledgement
Active-DVI's graphical engine to display DVI files is based on
Mldvi version 1.0, written by Alexandre Miquel.
Active-DVI is entirely written in Objective Caml.
This program is distributed under the GNU LGPL. See the enclosed file COPYING.
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