PowerLine — a free SVG slideshow creator
PowerLine
PowerLine is a graphical slide presentation editor, like Microsoft Powerpoint or Latex Beamer. Unlike these,
- PowerLine presentations can be viewed in any standards-compliant browser,
online and offline, on any Mac, Windows PC, smartphone or iPhone
- PowerLine allows easy what-you-see-is-what-you-get drawing
- PowerLine has native support for basic Latex formulas — no plug-in and no latex installation required
- PowerLine can export and convert its SVG files to TIKZ files
- PowerLine produces clean, searchable SVG vector graphic files
How it works
PowerLine is a graphical Java application that allows you to produce SVG slide presentations. An SVG slide presentation is a set of SVG files, where each file is one slide. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is the W3C standard for vector graphics. It can be displayed in any major modern browser.
The latex formulas use the SVG version of the Computer Modern font. If you enter a formula, each character is rendered as a path element and embedded into the SVG. This is why no external fonts are needed. The layout of the formula is done by PowerLine. This is why no Latex installation is required.
Images are copied to the slide folder and linked into the SVG. This way, PowerLine presentations are very space efficient.
PowerLine can export TIKZ files. This means that you can draw your figures in PowerLine and then save them in TIKZ. TIKZ can be included in Latex documents. This way, PowerLine doubles as a graphical what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor for TIKZ.
Terms and Conditions
PowerLine was programmed by Fabian M. Suchanek. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License. This means you can use the editor for free. The license does not restrict the use of the editor, but it does REJECT ALL WARRANTIES AND GUARANTEES WHATSOEVER FOR THIS PRODUCT. This is not a professonal program, but a personal tool. It may be useful to you — or not.
PowerLine gratefully uses the SVG Salamander library. The SVG Salamander library is (c) 2010 Mark McKay. It is available under the BSD license, whose full text can be found here.
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