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Software program for meeting presentations
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MagicPoint is one of several open-source presentation programs, often used to produce slides for conferences. 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.

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History

MagicPoint was originally created in the autumn of 1997, at a WIDE Project camp. It was originally known as tp, standing for TinyPoint,3 but in December the name was changed to MagicPoint.4

Features

  • Content is written in text files and formatting is indicated by text features. For example, different level bullet points can be created by simply indenting the text with tabs5
  • Many image formats are supported6
  • Slides can be scaled to different screen sizes7
  • External applications can be executed from inside the presentation
  • A talk timer and slide guide are included8
  • Presentations can be exported to HTML or PostScript files.9

Another feature of MagicPoint is the ability to draw on slides during a presentation.10 By pressing x on the keyboard, the slide can temporarily be scribbled on with red "ink". Shift x allows you to cycle through other pen colours.

References

  1. Using Linux for Presentations Mini-HOWTO http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/LinuxPresentations.html#dedicated ↩

  2. List of MagicPoint presentation by Google http://www.google.com/search?q=MagicPoint+presentation+foils ↩

  3. MagicPoint man page http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/mgp.1.html ↩

  4. Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino: itojun's pictorial diary Archived 2007-04-14 at the Wayback Machine /w/index.php?title=Jun-ichiro_itojun_Hagino&action=edit&redlink=1 ↩

  5. The Grumpy Editor's guide to presentation programs [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/Articles/101846/ ↩

  6. David MacKay: Useful stuff: Magicpoint http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/useful/mgp.html ↩

  7. MGP Toolbox http://lionel.kr.hs-niederrhein.de/~dalitz/data/software/mgp/mgp.html#Rescale ↩

  8. David MacKay: Useful stuff: Magicpoint http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/useful/mgp.html ↩

  9. (Linux) Event HOWTO http://www.linux.com/howtos/Event-HOWTO/creating.shtml ↩

  10. Using Linux for Presentations Mini-HOWTO http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/LinuxPresentations.html#dedicated ↩