Active-DVI

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# ctive-DVI
## Version 1.6.0

## Description of Active-DVI

Active-DVI is a Unix-platform DVI previewer and a programmable presenter for slides written in LaTeX.

To preview DVI files, Active-DVI features:

- Color anti-aliasing.
- Inclusion of images (via the Camlimages package) with alpha channel and blending.
- Encapsulated Postscript File inclusion (using graphics macros package).
- Gpic specials to display pictures.
- Correct treatment of many (but not all) in-lined-Postscript specials.
- Page background settings.
- Japanese pTeX DVI extension support (screen shot).

To present your DVI files, Active-DVI features:

- Basic effects for presentation (pause, delay, dynamic text color change).
- Annotations displayed on demand (similar to pop-up balloons).
- Hyper links from slide to slide or to other files (including DVI files).
- Replay of previously recorded parts of the display.
- Text movements.
- Page transitions.
- Embedded applications (launched and killed on demand from within. the presentation text source), with precise security policy.
- Scratching on slide to interactively modify the text on screen.
- Synchronization indications of each slide timing during the presentation, to connect the talk with a recording/playing facility and/or to automate the show.

Active-DVI special effects are set and launched from within your LaTeX source file via the macros of the `advi.sty` LaTeX package provided by the distribution.

In addition, Caml hackers can program new and fancy Active-DVI effects in the source code of the presenter.

## Screen shots

Click on the image to have a look on the screen shots of Active-DVI presentations.

## User's manual

The Active-DVI user's manual is available in format DVI, PS, and PDF. (The manual only exists in English version: volunteers to translate it are warmly welcomed...)

## Frequently asked questions

## Installation of Active-DVI

### Requirements

You need a Unix Platform running X11 window systems.

You need Objective Caml 3.06 to compile the sources.

You also need the `kpsewhich' utility of the `kpathsea' library provided by the TeX distributions.

## Download

#### Source distribution

- Simple installation.
  ADK
    the Active-DVI Development Kit. The complete and functional set of Active-DVI's source files and Caml libraries that it uses (in particular Camlimages).
- Advanced installation
  Note:
    For the maximum performance, Active-DVI requires the Camlimages library. If you have not yet installed this library, we recommend to download the ADK (it is a big tar ball of Active-DVI and Camlimages, with a fully-automated-with-luck installation Makefile).
  For hackers only
    the Active-DVI source version only (You should already have Camlimages installed!)
  For impatient hackers only
    The current CVS version of Active-DVI is available at the Caml Anonymous CVS repository.

## Bug reports and mailing list

If you find a bug drop a message to `advi-bugs@pauillac.inria.fr`.

If you want to get in touch with the implementors (to contribute some new ideas or lines of code) write to `advi@pauillac.inria.fr`.

If you want to subscribe to the Active-DVI mailing list, write to `advi-list-request@pauillac.inria.fr`.

## Authors

Jun Furuse, Pierre Weis, Didier Rémy, Xavier Leroy, Didier Le Botlan, Alan Schmitt, Roberto Di Cosmo, Alexandre Miquel

## Acknowledgments

Active-DVI's graphical engine to display DVI files is based on Mldvi version 1.0, written by Alexandre Miquel.

Active-DVI is entirely written in Objective Caml.

## COPYRIGHT

This program is distributed under the GNU LGPL. See the enclosed file COPYING.

Copyright © 2001 - 2003 INRIA all rights reserved. |

Last modification: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 on latour by weis.