[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX Presentation Cubic transition effect

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I have seen some presentations that use a kind of cubic effect when moving between pages. For instance, suppose you have a cube and every page is a side of the cube, then when moving from page one to page two, the page is changed with 3d effect of turning the cube from edge to edge. I know the presentation is typeset in LaTeX but I don't know this feature is LaTeX relevant or not.
How can I have that 3d effect in LaTeX presentation?

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I believe you need a special presentation software, such as impressive or pdfcube. You create a pdf presentation using one of the LaTeX packages or classes designed for that purpose (such as beamer, prosper, powerdot, ppower4), and present it using a special software.

Note that number of people find fancy page transitions like that highly distracting, so it may not be always the best idea.

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[Tex/LaTex] Beamer – transition effect

PDF offers a standardized way for transitions and these work in also in Beamer Latex. You can use them in Latex between \begin{frame} and \end{frame} and they should work with common PDF viewers.

                  Show the slide as if horizontal blinds were pulled away.
\transblindshorizontal

                   Show the slide as if vertical blinds were pulled away.
\transblindsvertical

                   Show the slide by moving to the center from all four sides.
       \transboxin

                   Show the slide by showing more and more of a rectangular area that is centered on the slide center
      \transboxout

                   Slowly dissolve what was shown before
\transdissolve

                   Glitter sweeps in specified direction
\transglitter

                   Show the slide by sweeping two vertical lines from the sides inward.
\transsplitverticalin

                   Show the slide by sweeping two vertical lines from the center outward.
\transsplitverticalout

                   Show the slide by sweeping two horizontal lines from the sides inward.
\transsplithorizontalin

                   Show the slide by sweeping two horizontal lines from the center outward.
\transsplithorizontalout

                   Sweeps single line in specified direction
\transwipe

                   Show slide specified number of seconds
\transduration{2}
                   Show the slide by pushing what was shown before off the screen using the new content.
\transpush
                   Replace the previous slide directly (default behaviour).
\transreplace
                   Show the slide by covering the content that was shown before
\transcover

[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX beamer slideshow presentation

I can't find a feature that allows me to open up a slide to fit the whole screen

Almost any PDF viewer have in the view menu a "Full Screen Mode", "Presentation mode" or something similar,as well as shortcuts as Ctrl+L (Acrobat Reader), F5 (Evince) or Crtl+Shift+P (Okular).Just search in the menu.

But if you want start in this mode to avoid delays in front of the audience, you can use the option pdfpagemode=FullScreen of the hyperref package (already loaded by the document class):

\documentclass{beamer}
\hypersetup{pdfpagemode=FullScreen}
\begin{document}
Hello,World
\end{document}

This way, assuming that you open the PDF with Acrobat Reader (e.g.:acroread file.pdf) it should be showed in the whole screen without Ctrl+L, although this and others viewers as okular will ask for confirmation the first time. Others as xpdf simply ignore this option. Others as evince simply do the job. Others as impressive (really a presentation tool, not a simple pdf viewer) show any PDF in full screen mode, with or without this option.

and then click through my presentation with the space bar.

This is the usual behavior in presentation mode with any PDF viewer (space bar = next page).

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