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<B>present (1)</B><BR>
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<A HREF=present-ppr1.html>present-ppr(1)</A><BR>
<A HREF=../xml/present-xml1.html>present-xml(1)</A><BR>
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<H1><A NAME="name">NAME</A></H1>
<P>present - run a Portable Presenter presentation.</P>
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<H1><A NAME="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</A></H1>
<P><STRONG>present</STRONG> [ <STRONG>-help</STRONG>|<STRONG>-h</STRONG>|<STRONG>-?</STRONG> ] [ <STRONG>-ppr</STRONG>|<STRONG>-xml</STRONG> ] [ <EM>file</EM> ]</P>
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<H1><A NAME="description">DESCRIPTION</A></H1>
<P>Portable Presenter (PPresenter) is a package designed to give presentations.
It is written in Perl/Tk only, which is available for UNIX and for Windows.</P>
<P>The key features of PPresenter are: projection on multiple screens at
the same time; scales with the size of the display; fully object-oriented,
which means flexible and extensible. You can write your slides in a
perl-program (for maximum flexability), or supply the data in xml.</P>
<P><CODE>present</CODE> starts a helper program, which depends on the type of input
you supply. Portable Presenter presentations can be written in
Perl (with PPresenter as library) or in XML.</P>
<P>If you start <CODE>present</CODE> with a filename ending on <CODE>.ppr</CODE>, it is
considered a perl-program. When the filename ends with <CODE>.xml</CODE>, it
is a XML-description of a presentation. Flags <STRONG>-ppr</STRONG> and <STRONG>-xml</STRONG>
overrule the filename extentions. If the type cannot be determined,
the <CODE>ppr</CODE> extention will be presumed.</P>
<P>When no filename is supplied, then the standard-input is
read.</P>
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<DT><STRONG><A NAME="item_%2Dhelp_%5Btype%5D">-help [type]</A></STRONG><BR>
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<DT><STRONG><A NAME="item_%2Dh_%5Btype%5D">-h [type]</A></STRONG><BR>
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<DT><STRONG><A NAME="item_%2D%3F_%5Btype%5D">-? [type]</A></STRONG><BR>
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Show the command-line options. If you do not specify any type, you will
get the options of the <CODE>present</CODE> command. If you specify a type
flag (<CODE>-ppr</CODE> or <CODE>-xml</CODE>) or when a type can be derived from an
supplied filename, you get the flags supported for that type of input.
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<DT><STRONG><A NAME="item_%2Dppr_%5Boptions%5D_%5Bfile%5D">-ppr [options] [file]</A></STRONG><BR>
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<DT><STRONG><A NAME="item_%5Boptions%5D_file%5B%2Eppr%5D">[options] file[.ppr]</A></STRONG><BR>
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The file contains a PPresenter presentation written as a perl-program.
You can also start this presentation directly, without use of <CODE>present</CODE>.
See the manual-page <CODE>present-ppr(1)</CODE> for the options.
<P>If <CODE>present</CODE> is supplied with a filename without extention, the file is
considered to be a perl-program.</P>
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<DT><STRONG><A NAME="item_%2Dxml_%5Boptions%5D_%5Bfile%5D">-xml [options] [file]</A></STRONG><BR>
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<DT><STRONG><A NAME="item_file%2Exml">file.xml</A></STRONG><BR>
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The file contains a presentation written in XML. See the manual-page
<CODE>present-xml(1)</CODE> for the options.
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<H1><A NAME="see also">SEE ALSO</A></H1>
<P>A full documentation in html is included in the package, and available
on the website: <CODE>http://ppresenter.org</CODE>.</P>
<P><CODE>present-ppr(1)</CODE>, <CODE>present-xml(1)</CODE>.</P>
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Portable Presenter is written and maintained by
<A HREF=http://mark.overmeer.net>Mark Overmeer</A>.
Copyright (C) 2000-2002, Free Software Foundation FSF.
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