μblog: engineering from the trenches

To follow up a previous post in LaTeX, here is an example of a presentation done in LaTeX and rendered to PDF for display in a PDF viewer. The .txt file contains the LaTeX (should normally be named .tex, but .txt might be easier for some web browsers) which generates the output. The LaTeX package I used is MiKTeX and the editor is simply called “LaTeX Editor”. The presentation macro is called powerdot. The one tricky part was including some graphics. To make things easier, I converted the images to PDF and then included them as shown in the code. If LaTeX complains about bounding box on the images, the solution is to open the PDF in LaTeX Editor and look at the first page or two where you see a MediaBox entry followed by four numbers. Those are the numbers copied into the includegraphics directive after bb=.

( proposal.pdf ) ( proposal.txt )

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