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--- latexslideshow [2018/12/06 19:50] – created abeverley
+++ latexslideshow [2018/12/06 20:06] (current) – abeverley
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+=====LatexSlideshow=====
 I found myself in a situation recently, where somebody wanted to create a Powerpoint slideshow for a hundred or so photos, all with the same header and footer. I thought it might be a lot easier to produce the file using Latex, and indeed it was. This is what I did.
 The steps shown here include resizing and renaming the photos first.
-I am assuming that you have all your images in the directory <tt>images</tt>
+I am assuming that you have all your images in the directory ''%%images%%''
-==Resize photos==
+===== Resize photos =====
-I used the Imagemagick <tt>mogrify</tt> command to bulk resize all the images. This command resizes all images to a maximum size of 1280x1024, but does not resize them if they are already smaller than that.
+I used the Imagemagick ''%%mogrify%%'' command to bulk resize all the images. This command resizes all images to a maximum size of 1280x1024, but does not resize them if they are already smaller than that.
- mogrify -resize 1280x1024\> images/*
+''%%mogrify -resize 1280x1024\> images/*%%''
-==Rename files sequentially==
+===== Rename files sequentially =====
-The following Perl script renames all the files sequentially. This makes it easier to include them in the Latex script. See [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3211595/renaming-files-in-a-folder-to-sequential-numbers this Stackoverflow question] for more details.
+The following Perl script renames all the files sequentially. This makes it easier to include them in the Latex script. See [[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3211595/renaming-files-in-a-folder-to-sequential-numbers|this Stackoverflow question]] for more details.
-<pre>
+<code>
 #!/usr/bin/perl
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     rename "$dir/$file", sprintf("%s/%s%s", $dir, ++$i, $ext);
 }
-</pre>
+</code>
 Save the above script and run:
- ./rename.pl images
+''%%./rename.pl images%%''
 You should now have all your images as 1.jpg, 2.jpg and so on.
-==Convert to slideshow PDF==
+===== Convert to slideshow PDF =====
-Save the following Latex script as <tt>slides.tex</tt>. Comments being with a <tt>%</tt>.
+Save the following Latex script as ''%%slides.tex%%''. Comments being with a ''%%%%%''.
-<pre>
+<code>
 \documentclass{beamer}
 \usepackage[size=a4]{beamerposter}
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 \end{document}
-</pre>
+</code>
+Run the script. ''%%xelatex%%'' is used so that fonts can be used:
-Run the script. <tt>xelatex</tt> is used so that fonts can be used:
- xelatex slides.tex
+''%%xelatex slides.tex%%''
-This will produce <tt>slides.pdf</tt>. This file can be opened with Adobe Acrobat and shown in full screen to see the slideshow with transitions. As much as I dislike the proprietary Adobe viewer, it does show the slideshow well, which not many other PDF viewers seem to support.
+This will produce ''%%slides.pdf%%''. This file can be opened with Adobe Acrobat and shown in full screen to see the slideshow with transitions. As much as I dislike the proprietary Adobe viewer, it does show the slideshow well, which not many other PDF viewers seem to support.