Answers.Body: <p>As <a href="http://yergler.net/blog/2012/03/13/hieroglyph/">Nathan Yegler</a> already blogged: “it’s more fun to write programs to help you write slides than it is to write slides.”. There is a plethora of programs out there that allow you to make slides in many forms and there are <a href="http://www.duarte.com/book/slideology/">books</a> on the subject as well¹.</p>
  
  <p>From personal experience I can recommend starting with a structured mark-up based format for editing that is then converted to PDF and your preferred ebook format (e.g. EPUB). Using mark-up instead of visual positioning will make it easier to keep the slides consistent. <a href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a>, based on the <a href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html">reStructured Text</a> markup, can generate both PDF and EPUB and an <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxcontrib-slide/">extension</a> allows you to embed your slides on <code>slideshare.net</code>.</p>
  
  <p>If your slides are going to contain mathematics formula, you might want to look at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX">LaTeX</a> and the slide generation package (<a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Presentations#The_Beamer_package">beamer</a>) for that instead.</p>
  
  <p>¹ <sub>Edward Tufte has written a great <a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint">essay</a> on the problems with PowerPoint presentations, a must read for anyone making slides.</sub></p>
  
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Answers.Text: another possibility is to use pandoc - http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/demo/example9/producing-slide-shows-with-pandoc.html
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Answers.Text: @michal.h21 that is true, and I have recommended using pandoc it in other answers. But I am not aware of specific support for **slides** in pandoc
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Answers.Body: <p>Creating a PDF which shows (effectively) as a a series of slides is not difficult. You just need to <strong>set the paper size</strong> to an appropriate size for your needs.</p>
  
  <p>In a pinch, I <em>sometimes</em> use PDFs as slides since I can still use my remote control slide advancer  (since it just sends page down and page up keyboard commands wirelessly).</p>
  
  <p>Related to your question, you do not actually need to produce special sized pages. You can simply zoom your PDF while it is being displayed to support this kind of presentation. In this case you could produce your slides in anything from PowerPoint to Word to any of the free alternatives.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>The PDF you linked was generated by LaTeX (or some other TeX derivative, like XeTeX) with the Beamer package. See:</p>
  <p>Links from:
  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX)</a></p>
  <p>QuickStart:
  <a href="http://www.math.umbc.edu/%7Erouben/beamer/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.math.umbc.edu/~rouben/beamer/</a> (note: link no longer working)</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Pandoc makes it easy to combine the simplicity of Markdown with the power of LaTeX (beamer). A short howto is in the <a href="http://pandoc.org/demo/example9/producing-slide-shows-with-pandoc.html" rel="nofollow">manual</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Additionally it's very straightforward with Pandoc to generate other formats from the same source.</p>
  
  <p>Andrew Goldstone shares his valuable experience in a <a href="http://andrewgoldstone.com/blog/2014/12/24/slides/" rel="nofollow">blog post</a>. His examples will save you a lot of time if you want to tune the output.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I want to create a PDF that can look like¹: </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/JyXwP.png" alt="a slide show"></p>
  
  <p>This kind of format is good for presentation, since you can reveal items as you read downwards.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to know which application I can use to built this kind of PDF or ebook.</p>
  
  <p>¹ <sub>The original site is <code>http://www.slideshare.net/uyar/discrete-mathematics-proofs#</code>, code on that side causes Google Chromium Version 31.0.1650.63 to exit</sub></p>
  
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Comments.Text: This seems to not be about ebooks but about pdf and presentations
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ThreadText: # How to write a presentation slide using pdf
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2013-12-28)
  
  I want to create a PDF that can look like¹:
  
  ![a slide show](https://i.sstatic.net/JyXwP.png)
  
  This kind of format is good for presentation, since you can reveal items as you read downwards.
  
  I would like to know which application I can use to built this kind of PDF or ebook.
  
  ¹ The original site is `http://www.slideshare.net/uyar/discrete-mathematics-proofs#`, code on that side causes Google Chromium Version 31.0.1650.63 to exit
  
  **Tags:** pdf, publishing, ebook-management
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: This seems to not be about ebooks but about pdf and presentations  
  
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  ## 4 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2013-12-28. Score: 6
  
  As [Nathan Yegler](http://yergler.net/blog/2012/03/13/hieroglyph/) already blogged: “it’s more fun to write programs to help you write slides than it is to write slides.”. There is a plethora of programs out there that allow you to make slides in many forms and there are [books](http://www.duarte.com/book/slideology/) on the subject as well¹.
  
  From personal experience I can recommend starting with a structured mark-up based format for editing that is then converted to PDF and your preferred ebook format (e.g. EPUB). Using mark-up instead of visual positioning will make it easier to keep the slides consistent. [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/), based on the [reStructured Text](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html) markup, can generate both PDF and EPUB and an [extension](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxcontrib-slide/) allows you to embed your slides on `slideshare.net`.
  
  If your slides are going to contain mathematics formula, you might want to look at [LaTeX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX) and the slide generation package ([beamer](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Presentations#The_Beamer_package)) for that instead.
  
  ¹ Edward Tufte has written a great [essay](http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint) on the problems with PowerPoint presentations, a must read for anyone making slides.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: another possibility is to use pandoc - http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/demo/example9/producing-slide-shows-with-pandoc.html  
  > **username_2**: @username_3 that is true, and I have recommended using pandoc it in other answers. But I am not aware of specific support for **slides** in pandoc  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2013-12-28. Score: 2
  
  Creating a PDF which shows (effectively) as a a series of slides is not difficult. You just need to **set the paper size** to an appropriate size for your needs.
  
  In a pinch, I *sometimes* use PDFs as slides since I can still use my remote control slide advancer (since it just sends page down and page up keyboard commands wirelessly).
  
  Related to your question, you do not actually need to produce special sized pages. You can simply zoom your PDF while it is being displayed to support this kind of presentation. In this case you could produce your slides in anything from PowerPoint to Word to any of the free alternatives.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_5 on 2014-01-06. Score: 2
  
  The PDF you linked was generated by LaTeX (or some other TeX derivative, like XeTeX) with the Beamer package. See:
  
  Links from:
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX)>
  
  QuickStart:
  [http://www.math.umbc.edu/~rouben/beamer/](http://www.math.umbc.edu/%7Erouben/beamer/) (note: link no longer working)
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_6 on 2015-06-30. Score: 0
  
  Pandoc makes it easy to combine the simplicity of Markdown with the power of LaTeX (beamer). A short howto is in the [manual](http://pandoc.org/demo/example9/producing-slide-shows-with-pandoc.html).
  
  Additionally it's very straightforward with Pandoc to generate other formats from the same source.
  
  Andrew Goldstone shares his valuable experience in a [blog post](http://andrewgoldstone.com/blog/2014/12/24/slides/). His examples will save you a lot of time if you want to tune the output.
  
  
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