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is an X11 based presentation tool. It is designed to make simple presentations
easy while to make complicated presentations possible. Its presentation
file is just text so that you can create presentation files quickly with
your favorite editor (such as Emacs). The file consists of text and control
commands (such as pagebreak, centering, and/or inline image). Control commands
are specified on the beginning of lines started with one sign. You can
include numerous kinds of image format files onto the presentation file.
uses Japanese/English fonts in various sizes. uses X11 scalable fonts
provided by X11 servers. can also utilize the Japanese outline font library,
"VFlib", if configured to do so at compilation time. The following options
are available: Set background color to (The default value is black)
Specify a VFlib configuration file. Demonstration mode. Browse all page
automatically, spending secounds on each page and terminate. If is not
specified, it will be set to 0. Specify the font name to be used by VFlib.
(The default value is minsl) Set the size and location of the window. Please
note that implies will not override the window manager if you specify
the geometry. Display the usage and exit without performing a presentation.
There are two kind of fonts available by VFlib; They are outline font
and bitmap font. By specifying you can disable the use of outline fonts.
accepts any key inputs from invoked terminal as KEY OPERATION described
below. disables this feature. (This option may be removed in the future
release) Do not override window manager. (By default, overrides window
manager and occupies the whole display) Start presentation from rather
than the first page. Do not beep on errors. Specify the timeslot assigned
to the presentation in minute. The timer is invoked when the second page
is displayed and the remaining presentation time is indicated by the length
of bar shown at the bottom of the display. The timebar is updated when some
X11 event is raised, for instance some keypress. Timebar will be green if
you have more than 50% of the timeslot, yellow while you have more than
30% of the timeslot, and red for the other cases. When the assigned timeslot
is expired, exceeding time is also shown as a timebar growing from left
to right. Current page is indicated by the position of a small vertical
bar; the vertical bar is drawn at the leftend when the first page is displayed
while the bar is drawn at the rightend when the last page is displayed.
Display the MagicPoint version and exit without performing a presentation.
specifies the working directory used for store embedded images if any.
To generate an embedded MGP file, use Do not use rendering engine, specified
by can be or Omit background image. Use private colormap. Generate
html pages of the presentation into You will need (included in mgp kit),
and and included in and Independent Jpeg Group package Specifies
html image type. Now "jpg" and "png" are supported. default value is "jpg".
It works when -D option is set. Specifies forward page cache options. and
are numbers. specifies caching mode. 0 means caching is executed after
2 seconds idle. 1 means caching is executed immediately. specifies 'special
effect' for the forward page cache. Currently, two special effects are supported.
1 means that the next page will come in from the left side. 2 means that
the current page will go out to the left side. 0 means no special effect.
specifies speed of special effect. 1 means the highest speed. A higher
value for decreases effect speed. Specifies to turn on page guide function.
At the bottom of the screen, the titles of next page and previous page
are displayed to assist the presentation. Page guide can be turned on and
off by keyboard too. Obey to the window manager, but with less decoration
around the window. The behavior of this option is affected by how the window
manager is implemented; this option may have no effect on some of the window
managers. Set background image quality(0-100). will usually reload the
presentation file if it gets updated, based on the file modification time
taken by disables this auto-reloading feature. Be secure. Skip directives
that fork/exec the child process. It is suggested to use this option if
you got some presentation file from others. This is enabled by default.
Be unsecure. Enable directives that fork/exec the child process. If the
option is specified, will modify the content of every time it updates
the presentation window. This option is useful for external process to understand
when modifies the window. Be verbose. Generate debugging output to standard
output. sometimes invokes to render postscript images. enables you to
specify the device to be used by
with a trailing
'+', and will be invoked for anti-aliasing. The default is "pnmraw+".
The keyboard/mouse commands are: Go forward a page. Space
key, downward cursor key, scroll down key, "f" key, "j" key, and "n" key
have the same effect. If <number> is specified, go forward <number> pages. Go
to the previous page. "b" key, "k" key, "p" key, backspace key, scroll up
key and upward cursor key have the same effect. If <number> is specified,
go back <number> pages. Set prefix number in decimal. i.e. <number> = <number> *
10 + <keyN> - <key0>. For example, by typing in "10g" you can jump to page 10.
Go to the <number> page. If number of 0 is specified, go to the last page.
Display the page listing menu. See below for details. Enable/disable page
guide. See description for option for details. Enable/disable rakugaki
(jotting) mode. You can make an annotation (by mouse) on the presentation.
Mouse button 2 (middle) has the same effect. Change the pen color for rakugaki
(jotting) mode. Enable/disable the timebar if -t timeslot option is specified.
Enable/disable forward page cache. Repaint the current page. Use this if
you messed up the page by jotting too much. Reload the current presentation
file. If the current page becomes unavailable, page pointer will be moved
back to 1. Quit the currently running "q" key also has the same effect.
During the presentation, you can see the page list at the bottom of the
window when you press a Control Key. Choosing a page with the mouse and
clicking it with the leftmost mouse button, you can go to corresponding
page directly. Releasing the Control Key, the page list disappears and you
can continue with the current page. This function is useful during the Q-and-A
period after your presentation completes.
will look
at a file named in your home directory. The content of the file must be
a limited set of magicpoint directives, one directive per line, without
sign. Lines start with or empty lines, will be silently ignored. See
for eligible directives. imports various image draw functions from This
means that the location of image files can be specified by file. If you
specify the presentation file with its directory, that directory is searched
first and then the path specified in the is searched.
The
presentation file can include directives to call the external process,
just like shell process. Therefore, the presentation file should be treated
just like shell script or perl script. This is STRONGLY recommended to review
the content of the presentation file before invoking if you got the file
from others. By adding the option to the command line argument, directives
that call external processes will be skipped.
Yoshifumi
Nishida <nishida@csl.sony.co.jp>
Jun-ichiro Hagino <itojun@itojun.org>,
Akira Kato <kato@wide.ad.jp>, Atsushi Onoe <onoe@sm.sony.co.jp>, Kazu Yamamoto <Kazu@Mew.org>,
Youjiro Uo <yuo@nui.org>, and Masaki Minami <Masaki@Minami.org> extensively
contributed improvements, bug fixes, and documents. Special thanks to Chaki
Kusakari <chaki@sfc.wide.ad.jp>.
was created shortly after the autumn
camp of WIDE Project in 1997, which was originally called
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