[powerdot] Re: powerdot vs latex-beamer




I'm not looking for lengthy input because I could always just evaluate
both classes. I'm just wondering if there is an obvious reason to use
one or the other.

Thanks a lot,

  Julian Dibbelt





Hi Julian,

IMHO the more essential difference between the classes is as follows:

Beamer accepts two ways of compiling source files:

1. LATEX => DVI => PS => PDF (using LaTeX, Ghostscript and Ps2Pdf),
2. LATEX => PDF (using PDFLaTeX),

whereas Powerdot accepts only first way. So, if you want directly
include, e.g., *.jpeg pictures into presentation, you should use Beamer.

With best regards,

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Dr hab. Wladyslaw Tomaszewicz

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