[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX article to Prezi-style zooming dia -presention

presentations

Prezi is a proprietary software here.

I found beamer, powerdot, HA -prosper, prosper, slides and seminar. Which one or something similar should I use to create something like Prezi-style zooming dia -presentation?

Best Answer

It should be possible to reproduce the canvas that holds the presentation content, e. g. with PGF/TikZ. However, I don't see any chance to implement the all-essential pan and zoom features: The output formats of LaTeX, PDF and DVI, are simply not built for such tasks. You'd need an external tool to implement these features, which doesn't exist to my knowledge and would take a considerable amount of time to develop (after all, there are very few alternative programs to produce presentations like the ones created with Prezi at all).

A glimmer of hope could be dizzy.js: It's a small library that allows you to create Prezi-like presentations with your browser using JavaScript and SVG. As TikZ is able to produce SVG output, you could try creating your presentation with TikZ, export it to SVG and use the resulting file as an input for dizzy.js. However, this isn't straightforward, as dizzy.js heavily relies on SVG groups and conflicts with the files produced by TikZ.

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