UltraPoint --- tool for a fixed form of presentation

Introduction

UltraPoint is a simple, XML based presentation program designed to help aid with instant preparation. As compared with most of the existing tools, UltraPoint requires no special adjustment cost.

Screenshots

and its input (sample.xml)

Features

Drawing with GGI (General Graphic Interface).

Accessing a lot of font formats with VFlib 3.6.

Arranging scaled images with ImageMagick.

TODO

Output HTML (using XSLT), PostScript

More natural line wrapping, hyphenation

Customization, theme engine

More extensible font selection mechanism

Ridding of bugs and memory leak

Rewrite DTD with W3C XML Schema

etc.

Availability

• UltraPoint-0.4.tar.gz (250KB)
• CVS Repository

Requirements

You will need the following packages to compile:

• VFlib 3.6.7 or later
• GGI and the appropriate targets
• libxml 1.8.x or later
• libunicode 0.4 or later
• GLib 1.2.8 or later
• (optional) ImageMagick 4.2.8 or 5.2.0 (5.1.1 may not work)

Fonts

• GNU International Fonts
  • GNU International Fonts Ver.1.2
• Arphic Public License Font
• Proposal for a GNU Unicode Font

Useful programs

• PSGML
• xfullsize (only in the X11 target)

Related links

• Project Summary of this project
• Presentations with LaTeX
• KPresenter
• MagicPoint
• EWIPE (in Japanese)
• Easy Perform
  • epv (Easy Perform Viewer) (in Japanese)
• XP - the presentation tool on the X (in Japanese)
• Achtung ML archives
• StarOffice

License

GPL2

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