MagicPoint
In today's world, MagicPoint has become a topic of great relevance and interest to a wide spectrum of society. Whether due to its impact on people's daily lives, its influence on the global economy or its role in the evolution of technology, MagicPoint is a topic that continues to generate debate and analysis in various areas. In this article, we will explore in depth the various facets and perspectives of MagicPoint, with the aim of providing a comprehensive and updated view on this topic that is so relevant today.
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| Developer(s) | WIDE Project |
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| Stable release | 1.13a
/ February 13, 2008 |
| Operating system | Any Unix-like |
| Type | Presentation program |
| License | BSD license |
| Website | http://member.wide.ad.jp/wg/mgp/ |
MagicPoint is one of several open-source presentation programs, often used to produce slides for conferences. Unlike most presentation programs, such as Microsoft PowerPoint, where a GUI is used to create slides, MagicPoint slides are created by writing text files using a simple markup language. The resulting file is then displayed with MagicPoint's X11-based viewer.
History
MagicPoint was originally created in the autumn of 1997, at a WIDE Project camp. It was originally known as tp, standing for TinyPoint, but in December the name was changed to MagicPoint.
Features
- Content is written in text files and formatting is indicated by text features. For example, different level bullet points can be created by simply indenting the text with tabs
- Many image formats are supported
- Slides can be scaled to different screen sizes
- External applications can be executed from inside the presentation
- A talk timer and slide guide are included
- Presentations can be exported to HTML or PostScript files.
Another feature of MagicPoint is the ability to draw on slides during a presentation. By pressing x on the keyboard, the slide can temporarily be scribbled on with red "ink". Shift x allows you to cycle through other pen colours.
References
- ^ FSF Directory
- ^ a b Using Linux for Presentations Mini-HOWTO
- ^ List of MagicPoint presentation by Google
- ^ MagicPoint man page
- ^ Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino: itojun's pictorial diary Archived 2007-04-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Grumpy Editor's guide to presentation programs [LWN.net]
- ^ a b David MacKay: Useful stuff: Magicpoint
- ^ MGP Toolbox
- ^ (Linux) Event HOWTO
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