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The LaTeX Beamer document class

Version: 5.x - Scientific WorkPlace & Scientific Word

The LaTeX Beamer document class produces presentations, handouts, and transparency slides as typeset PDF files. The class provides global and local control of layout, color, and fonts; a variety of list and list display mechanisms; and many dynamic transitions between slides. Beamer presentations can contain text, mathematics, graphics, and animations.

A single SWP or SW file contains an entire Beamer presentation. You define global formatting with commands in the preamble. You create each slide in the presentation inside frame environments, which are defined with fragments provided as part of the support. Transitions are also defined with fragments.

This sample presentation illustrates many of the available features. If you have SWP or SW, you can open and examine the .tex document used to create the presentation.

Download

You can download from our website a 5-MB self-extracting file that provides support for Beamer. The support is included on the CD for program build 2953B and later. The download includes the Slides - Beamer document shell, a sample presentation, the Beamer User Guide, and the associated fragments required to provided basic support for Beamer in Version 5.x.

Running the self-extracting program installs the User Guide in the TCITeX/TeX/LaTeX/contrib/beamer/doc directory of your program installation. The class is installed in the TCITeX/TeX/LaTeX/contrib/beamer directory.

To download and install Beamer support

1. Download the BeamerSupportFiles.exe file to your program directory, usually c:\swp55 or \sw55 for Version 5.5.

2. Run the program and enter your program directory as the extraction directory.

3. Follow the prompts that appear on your screen. When the process asks if you want to overwrite several files in the Typeset directory, choose Yes to All.

4. When the installation is complete, open SWP or SW and start a new document with the Slides - Beamer shell in the Other Documents shell directory.

More information appears in the sample presentation.

Last revised 09/06/07