MagicPoint

MagicPoint
Developer(s) WIDE Project
Stable release 1.13a / February 13, 2008 (2008-02-13)
Operating system Any Unix-like
Type Presentation program
License BSD license[1]
Website http://member.wide.ad.jp/wg/mgp/

MagicPoint is one of several open source presentation programs,[2] often used to produce slides for conferences.[3] Unlike most presentation programs, such as Microsoft PowerPoint, where a GUI is used to create slides, MagicPoint slides are created by writing text files using a simple markup language. The resulting file is then displayed with MagicPoint's X11-based viewer.

History

MagicPoint was originally created in the autumn of 1997, at a WIDE Project camp. It was originally known as tp, standing for TinyPoint,[4] but in December the name was changed to MagicPoint.[5]

Features

Another feature of MagicPoint is the ability to draw on slides during a presentation.[2] By pressing x on the keyboard, the slide can temporarily be scribbled on with red "ink".[9] Shift x allows you to cycle through other pen colours.

References

  1. ↑ FSF Directory
  2. 1 2 Using Linux for Presentations Mini-HOWTO
  3. ↑ List of MagicPoint presentation by Google
  4. ↑ MagicPoint man page
  5. ↑ Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino: itojun's pictorial diary
  6. ↑ The Grumpy Editor's guide to presentation programs [LWN.net]
  7. 1 2 David MacKay: Useful stuff: Magicpoint
  8. ↑ MGP Toolbox
  9. 1 2 Warwick University GNU/Linux User Group Article
  10. ↑ (Linux) Event HOWTO

External links

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