gpresent is a package for making presentations with groff and acroread. It consist of a set of macros to be used with groff and a post-processor for manipulating the PostScript output of groff. Without the use of the PAUSE macro, it can also be used for making slides.

This Git repository has been set up as a fork of the original gpresent sources by Bob Diertens since they have not been updated in a while. It will run on recent versions of Groff.

Presentations:

% groff -mm -mpresent file.rof > file.pps
% presentps -l < file.pps > file.ps
% ps2pdf file.ps
% acroread file.pdf

Slides:

% groff -P-l -mm -mpresent file.rof > file.ps

Note:

• Do not forget to put in options for the preprocessors that are to be used.
• On systems were Troff is installed you have to use -mgm instead of -mm.

• groff (version 1.18.1 dated Oct 3, 2002 or higher/later) with the mm macros (included with groff)
• perl (version 5.x)
• ps2pdf included with Ghostscript (version 5.10 or higher)
• Some PDF viewer (e.g. evince, acroread)

• put present.tmac and piclink.tmac in the tmac directory of your groff installation (and delete old version named tmac.present)
• change the path in the first line of presentps to the path of your perl version 5.x and put presentps in the bin directory of your groff installation
• put groff_present.7 and groff_piclink.7 in man/man7 of your groff installation
• put presentps.1 in man/man1 of your groff installation

• acroread: in your preferences for FullScreen set Default Transition to Replace Mouse Cursor to Always Visible or Hidden After Delay

Bob Diertens, [email protected]

gpresent is free software. See the file COPYING for copying permission.

https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/b.diertens/useful/gpresent/