28  Beamer on the Web

Beamer’s home on the Web

Beamer’s author is Till Tantau. As of April 2010 its development was taken over by a new team. See

        https://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer/wiki/Home

for news, discussions, and downloading information. The most recent Beamer distribution may be found there as a single tar archive which includes, among other things, Beamer’s manual and several demos.

Beamer’s manual may be obtained separately from

        http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/doc/

although it is safer to use the one that comes with your own Beamer installation because there may be version dependencies.

Other Beamer tutorials

Advanced tutorials

Ki-Joo Kim has created two very nice tutorials that demonstrate many advanced features of Beamer. You can find these tutorials, named beamer_guide.pdf and beamer_pstricks.pdf in:

        http://www.geocities.com/kijoo2000/beamer.html

Note added 2010-03-20

The link given above seems no longer to exist but my own copies of those tutorials are available here:

        beamer_guide.pdf         beamer_pstricks.pdf

wxpdf

This is only tangentially related to Beamer: If you are using Xpdf to view PDF files, then you may be interested in Stephen J Eglen’s wxpdf script. It’s a perl-based front-end to Xpdf that watches a PDF file and updates the Xpdf window whenever the file changes.

While there, have a look at the link Notes on extending emacs. This may be useful to you if you are an emacs user.