Active-DVI

Reference manual
Version 2.0.0

Active-DVI is a viewer for DVI files that also recognizes a new class of \special’s targeted to presentations via laptop computers: various visual effects can easily be incorporated to the presentation, via a companion advi.sty L^AT_EX package.

Active-DVI is copyright ©2001–2021,2021 INRIA and distributed under the Gnu Library General Public License —see the LGPL file included in the distribution.

Active-DVI is available at https://github.com/diremy/advi. This documentation and additional information are available at http://advi.inria.fr/.

This manual is available as a a single or several HTML files, or in PDF format.

• Acknowledgments and contributors
• Contents
• Installation
  • Installation of the advi executable
  • Installation of the advi L^AT_EX source files
  • Rebuilding the documentation
  • Tests and examples
• Active-DVI for the impatient
• Safety concerns when using the Active-DVI previewer
• Initialization files for Active-DVI
  • Syntax of initialization files
  • Loading initialization files
  • Automatic setting of options
• Using the Active-DVI presenter
  • Launching Active-DVI
  • Command line options
  • Cut and paste
  • Hyper-text references
  • Floating table of contents and thumbnails
  • Moving around
  • Scratching on slides
  • Using the laser pointer
  • Saving slides
  • Creating events from the L^AT_EX source file
  • Using and making special effects
  • Viewing multiple files simultaneously
• The advi.sty L^AT_EX package
  • Printing the presentation
  • Pauses
  • Active-DVI records
  • Active-DVI anchors
  • Images
  • Colors
  • Background
  • Transitions
  • Embedded applications
  • Active anchors
  • Postscript specials
• The advi-slides.sty L^AT_EX package
• Auxiliary L^AT_EX packages
  • The superpose package
  • The bubble package
  • The advi-annot package
  • The advi-graphicx L^AT_EX package
• Limitations
  • Postscript Fonts
  • In-lined Postscript and Ghostscript
  • In-lined Postscript change of coordinates
• Reporting bugs
• Key bindings
  • Survival command kit
  • Moving between pages
  • Moving between pauses
  • Adjusting the page size
  • Moving the page in the window
  • Switching views
  • Redisplay commands
  • Using the navigation history stack
  • Table of contents
  • Writing and drawing on the page
  • Using the laser pointer
  • Saving the current page
  • Dealing with caches
• Key bindings for scratch writings
  • Entering scratch writing mode
  • Survival command kit when scratch writing
  • Scratch writing settings mode keys
  • Setting the scratching font size
• Key bindings for scratch drawings
  • Entering scratch drawing mode
  • Survival command kit when scratch drawing
  • Scratch drawing settings mode keys
• Index