slideshow is a Unix tcsh script that generates an html slide show from a set of images.

Usage:
slideshow [slidelist] [slidelist.html] [image source directory] [...]
[slidelist]: an ascii file containing a list of the image files
[slidelist.html]: name of the starting page
[image source directory]: directory where the images are kept
[...] additional controls:
"-font areal 4" set the font to areal size 4
"-mouseon" turn on red square next to mouse arrow
"-thumbnail 5" images on main page are thumbnails, 5% of original size
"-listnames" list the number and name of each image on the first page
to allow easy organization of the images.
"-shownames" replace the words 'image popup' with the name of the
image on each page.

Just create a set of image files that your browser can handle. Then create a file that lists the file names. Run this slideshow script. A series of html pages will be created that step through the slides. These pages can be viewed in any browser. Just click on an image to get to the next one, or use the "back", "slide list" and "forward" buttons.

See the program for further details.

• Example

  • Example Slide Show
  • Example image list
  • images directory

• slideshow source code

• How do I make slides? There are many excellent open source or shareware programs:
  • creating images
    • Gimp
    • xfig
    • latex
    • latex2html. Note that one could make a slide show using latex2html!
  • manipulating images
    • ImageMagick This is a fantastically powerful set of programs. If you have it installed, slideshow will be able to determine sizes of your images. It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED for properly creating slides.
    • xv
      • xv ftp site
      • xv web page
  • Displaying images
    • PostScript using ghostview
  • Stealing images (but don't forget copyright restrictions!)
    • wget
  • Automating your work: atchange

• Talks using slideshow:

  • 2001 July 12 by Thomas Schneider Rsequence, Rfrequency, Excess Information at Bacteriophage T7 promoters and the Evolution of Binding Sites
    

• Other slide show methods:

  • iGal: online Image GALlery generator
  • http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfslide
  • http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfscreen
  • http://www.pragma-ade.com/

Schneider Lab
origin: 2001 June 21
updated: version = 2.04 of slideshow.html 2004 Aug 4