## making slides | Welcome Gallery Handbook |
| Manual page for making_slides(PL)

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## DESCRIPTION

This page contains notes regarding ways to use ploticus to prepare slides.``

## EXAMPLES

In addition to the above example, these gallery examples are set up as slides: td and errbar5

## MAKING SLIDES

pl and pltab may be used to create slides.``

There are several strategies: 1) use pl or pltab in PostScript mode, sending it directly to a film slide making system; 2) use pl or pltab to generate a data display then import it (PNG, EPS, GIF) into your slide system; 3) use pl or pltab in PNG or GIF mode and present graphs using a browser and a screen projection system.``

## POWERPOINT

PNG and GIF files may be inserted as pictures with PowerPoint.``

EPS files may be used with PowerPoint if the result will be processed through a PostScript film imager (the EPS will not be visible when previewing the slides on the screen, or if presenting slides from a screen projector).

## POSTSCRIPT

Ploticus will generate pagingated PostScript if the `-ps` command line option is used; use `-eps` to get EPS output.``

Most slide imaging devices accept PostScript input, either directly or via a software driver.`` The expected size, positioning, and orientation of the result may vary. The above example creates PostScript that will work with some slide imaging setups. For others, the `proc page` parameters may need to be adjusted for factors such as page size and orientation.``

Often light lines on a dark background works better on slides.`` In the example, `proc page` is used to set a dark background color (darkblue), and a light text/line color (white).`` Also the overall line thickness is increased.``

## TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND

It may be convenient to use a background color of `transparent` when making a PNG or GIF for inclusion into a slides package. This allows the ploticus graph to be "overlayed" on the existing background color of the importing application (assuming that it knows about transparency).``
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Copyright Steve Grubb

Markup created by unroff 1.0, `` `` June 18, 2001.