Making WUR style screen presentations with LaTeX
Often, creating WUR style presentations with powerpoint is a nightmare, especially when a lot of equations are used. Now you can use LaTeX to make screen presentations that look just like the WUR powerpoint templates. The final product will be a PDF file that can be shown on virtually all modern computers. Most scientific conferences accept PFD based presentations.Many LaTeX based solutions for making screen presentations. After reviewing many packages, I found that beamer is the one to use. It is very extendible in terms of how you presentations look like, and it is very flexible with regard to the LaTeX processing path (i.e. you can use both a dvips and a pdflatex route).Thus, I have crafted a style file 'wurbeamer' for beamer that mimicks (and extends!) the standard WUR powerpoint templates.
Click on the screenshot below to download/display a demonstration of the capabilities of wurbeamer.
What to do - Make sure you have a working, modern, LaTeX installation. For Windows MikTeX is recommended.
- Download and install the main wurbeamer files: beamerthemewur.sty and wur-picturebar.jpg
- If you plan to use the (recommended) pdfLaTeX route, download/install the logo files that are of interest for you: wu.pdf, alterra.pdf, nwo.pdf.
- Alternatively, if you prefer the dvips-pstopdf route route, download install wu.eps, alterra.eps, nwo.eps.
- Download wurbeamer-demo.tex to learn how above demo presentation was made. For the pdflatex route, you will also need the image files lorenz.pdf lorenz-start.png, lorenzxy.pdf, lorenzxz.pdf, lorenzyz.pdf, lorenzyz.pdf, lena.jpg and the movie lorenz.avi.
- Build your own presentation. Don't hesitate to ask me for help.
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