[fptex] Slides Fonts and Font Sizes

[Tarik Kara]

Take a llok at

http://www.miwie.org/presentations/html/index.html

for the macro packages available. It is a very nicely prepared page. I
have used pdfscreen and texpower a few times and was happy with them.

Have fun

Tar{\i}k

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Luis A Escobar wrote:

> I use LaTeX slides (\documentclass{slides}) for
>   my classes and presentations.
> 
>   I love the LaTeX typesetting quality and the freedom
>   that one has to make the entire process automatic
>   without a heavy overhead in making presentations.
> 
>   But i am very disappointed with 'display' qualities of my
>   presentations: small fonts, thin fonts, and fuzzy fonts (no very
>   sharp contrast when viewing black and white).
>   Everytime that i get in a large room, say (more than 30 people, 5 people
> per
>   row), using a modern computing projector,
>    my slides are difficult to read because of the problems outlined above.
>   And my slides look old fashioned (but i am not looking for
>   power point stuff, though their text fonts seem to be much better
>   than what I use).
> 
>   I am using type1 fonts and the font size provide by the document class
>   slides (i tried to override the font size of documentclass{slide} but i
> failed).
> 
>   Any ideas within the freeware, no heavy overhead, side?
>   I have looked into things like "The Bundle" and "Vtex"
>   but either the overhead in the slides preparation
>   or using commercial software
>   have stopped me of going on that direction. I also understand
>   that alternatives like "Seminar" are proyects with no further
>   development. So why to switch to that style? But I may be
>   mistaken.
> 
> Thanks for anyhelp
> 
>  I am old man trying to make modern presentations.
> 
>  Luis A.
> 
>  Professor.
> 
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