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<TR><TD><A HREF="#features">Description</A></TD></TR>
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<TR><TD><A HREF="#download">Download</A></TD></TR>
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<TR><TD><A HREF="manualxxx.html">Manual</A></TD></TR>
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<TD><H1 ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="advilogo.anim.gif">ctive-DVI</H1></TD></TR>
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<H2 ALIGN=CENTER>Version @VERSION@</H2>
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<H2 ALIGN=LEFT><A name="features">Description of Active-DVI</A></H2>
<P>Active-DVI is a Unix-platform <STRONG>DVI previewer</STRONG> and a
<STRONG>programmable presenter for slides</STRONG> written in LaTeX.</P>
<P>To preview DVI files, Active-DVI features:
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<LI>Color anti-aliasing.
<LI>Inclusion of images (via the Camlimages package) with alpha
channel and blending.
<LI>Encapsulated Postscript File inclusion (using graphics macros package).
<LI>Gpic specials to display pictures.
<LI>Correct treatment of many (but not all) in-lined-Postscript specials.
<LI>Page background settings.
<LI>Japanese pTeX DVI extension support (<A HREF="pngs/japanese/advi-j.png">screen shot</A>).
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<P>To present your DVI files, Active-DVI features:
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<LI>Basic effects for presentation (pause, delay, dynamic text color change).
<LI>Annotations displayed on demand (similar to pop-up balloons).
<LI>Hyper links from slide to slide or to other files (including DVI files).
<LI>Replay of previously recorded parts of the display.
<LI>Text movements.
<LI>Page transitions.
<LI>Embedded applications (launched and killed on demand from within.
the presentation text source), with precise security policy.
<LI>Scratching on slide to interactively modify the text on screen.
<LI>Synchronization indications of each slide timing during the
presentation, to connect the talk with a recording/playing facility
and/or to automate the show.
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<P>Active-DVI special effects are set and launched from within your
LaTeX source file via the macros of the <CODE>advi.sty</CODE>
LaTeX package provided by the distribution.
<P>In addition, Caml hackers can program new and fancy Active-DVI effects in the
source code of the presenter.
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<strong>Warning!</strong>
See the security warning in the enclosed file <A href="README">README</a>.
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<H2 ALIGN=LEFT><A name="screenshots">Screen shots</A></H2>
<P>Click on the image to have a look on the screen shots of Active-DVI
presentations.
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<H2 ALIGN=LEFT>Requirements</H2>
To install Active-DVI, you need
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<li>a Unix platform running the X11 window system.
<li>an OCaml compile, version 3.11 or later with the latest version (4.0) of
the <A HREF="http://gallium.inria.fr/camlimages/">Camlimages</A>
library.
<li>the `kpsewhich' utility of the `kpathsea' library
provided by the TeX distributions.
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For more details see the enclosed file <A href="INSTALL">INSTALL</a>.
<H2 ALIGN=LEFT><A name="download">Download</A></H2>
The latest version <STRONG>(@VERSION@)</STRONG>
of Active-DVI is only available as a
<A HREF="advi-@VERSION@.tar.gz">source tar ball</a>.
Some older versions are still avaliable in the
<A HREF="http://advi.inria.fr/archive">archive</a>.
<H2 ALIGN=LEFT><A name="manual">User's manual</A></H2>
<P> The Active-DVI user's manual is available online
as <A HREF="manual.html">multiple HTML files</A>,
as <A HREF="manual.html">one single HTML file</A> or
in <A HREF="manual.pdf">PDF</A>. (It is also available in
<A HREF="manual.dvi">DVI</A> or <A HREF="manual.ps">PS</A> formats.)
</A> is also available, but with a few typesetting glitches.
<p> See also the <A HREF="faq.html">Frequently asked questions
(FAQ)</A></H2>
<H2 ALIGN=LEFT><A NAME="lists">Bug reports and mailing list</A></H2>
<P>Write to <a href="mailto:advi@inria.fr"><CODE>advi@inria.fr</CODE></a>.
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
<a href="https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/advi">subscribe</a>.
(We are sorry for the annoyance, but given the low traffic, we prefer this
solution, even for bug reports, so as to avoid spam).
<H2 ALIGN=LEFT><A NAME="authors">Authors</A></H2>
<A HREF="http://jun.furuse.info/">Jun Furuse</A>,
<A HREF="http://gallium.inria.fr/~weis/">Pierre Weis</A>,
<A HREF="http://gallium.inria.fr/~remy/">Didier Rmy</A>,
<A HREF="http://gallium.inria.fr/~xleroy/">Xavier Leroy</A>,
<A HREF="http://wwwdgeinew.insa-toulouse.fr/~lebotlan/">Didier Le Botlan</A>,
<A HREF="http://sardes.inrialpes.fr/~aschmitt/">Alan Schmitt</A>,
<A HREF="http://www.dicosmo.org/">Roberto Di Cosmo</A>,
<A HREF="http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~miquel/">Alexandre Miquel</A>.
<H2 ALIGN=LEFT>Acknowledgments</H2>
<P>Active-DVI's graphical engine to display DVI files is based on
Mldvi version 1.0, written by <A
HREF="http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~miquel/">Alexandre Miquel</A>.
<P>Active-DVI is written in <A HREF="http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/">OCaml</A>.
<H2 ALIGN=LEFT><A NAME="copyright">COPYRIGHT</A></H2>
This program is distributed under the GNU LGPL. See the enclosed file
<A href="LICENSE">LICENSE</a>.
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