Making Slides in LaTeX

The Beamer Class

The beamer class is a LaTeX class that allows you to create a beamer presentation. It can also be used to create slides. It behaves similarly to other packages like Prosper, but has the advantage that it works together directly with pdflatex, but also with dvips.
The Latex Beamer Class Homepage provides with the steps to create a beamer presentation and some examples.

Quick Tutorial on Beamer Package for slide making in Latex

Prosper

Prosper is a LaTeX class for writing transparencies. It aims at offering an environment for easily creating slides for both presentations with an overhead projector and a video projector. Slides prepared for a presentation with a computer and a video projector may integrate animation effects, incremental display, etc.

Short Introduction into the Prosper LaTeX Package

Here is a brief tutorial about Prosper that can be used to make slides in LaTex. Prosper allows you to create slides featuring transition effects, animation and so on in LaTeX. You simply insert some calls to Prosper macros in your LaTeX source file, then run latex and a DVI-PDF conversion utility. You then use Acroread to project your slides.

Quick Tutorial on the Prosper Package for Slide Making in LaTeX

The Prosper Homepage provides additional examples and downloads for this class.

PPower4

PPower4 is a used to post process presentations in PDF format which were prepared using (La)TeX to add dynamic effects. It is a Java based post processing software used to add special effects to the slides.

Here's the link to the PPower4 Homepage

Note:

These three softwares are not a part of the default installation for LaTeX. The software downloads can be obtained from the respective homepages. For further assistance with the installation on your machine please contact Computer Support.