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# ctive-DVI

## Version 1.10.2

## 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.

Warning! See the security warning in the enclosed file README.

## Screen shots

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

## Requirements

To install Active-DVI, you need

- a Unix platform running the X11 window system.
- an OCaml compile, version 3.11 or later with the latest version (4.0) of the Camlimages library.
- the `kpsewhich' utility of the `kpathsea' library provided by the TeX distributions.

For more details see the enclosed file INSTALL.

## Download

The latest version (1.10.2) of Active-DVI is only available as a source tar ball. Some older versions are still avaliable in the archive.

## User's manual

The Active-DVI user's manual is available online as multiple HTML files, as one single HTML file or in PDF. (It is also available in DVI or PS formats.) is also available, but with a few typesetting glitches.

See also the Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

## Bug reports and mailing list

Write to `advi@inria.fr`. for bug reports, or to get in touch with the implementors. The is the Active-DVI mailing list, which is also the forum to discuss about Active DVI. To write to the list, you should first subscribe. (We are sorry for the annoyance, but given the low traffic, we prefer this solution, even for bug reports, so as to avoid spam).

## 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 written in OCaml.

## COPYRIGHT

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

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