Re: [Groff] Colors, PowerPoint and PDFs

[Robert Goulding]

On Oct 20, 2005, at 4:37 PM, Clarke Echols wrote:

> I'd like to create the equivalent of a PowerPoint presentation
> using PDF or other reasonable display.  It would be nice to
> be able to use the entire screen instead of a window, like
> PowerPoint does.  It has to run on Windows 98 and newer machines.
> [I have trouble justifying the cost of Microsoft Office to get
> a PowerPoint composer.]
>
> Also, I'd like to control the background color on the entire
> page.  I haven't found a way to do that with groff yet.  I can
> get colored print and fill on drawn spaces using \D... sequences.
>
> Does groff allow background color control with colored type
> on top (such as yellow print on a blue background?
The gpresent package does all that and more.  It is available at 
http://www.science.uva.nl/~bobd/useful/gpresent/

Robert.