How many of you have created their own presentation tools in Perl?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

The Israeli Perl Mongers had a meeting in which people presented presentation tools that they have written on their own. In fact, in Israel alone at least 5 people have written their presentation tools in Perl (me included), 1 in zsh, and 1 in Python.

How many of you wrote their own presentation tool in Perl? How many of you used something else you found on the Net? Just curious to know.

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Re: How many of you have created their own presentation tools in Perl? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 05, 2003 at 19:37 UTC
I might have, if I hadn't found out about the prosper package for TeX which lets you create PDF presentations. Freshmeat has a good introductionary tutorial on making Presentations with LaTeX and Prosper. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: How many of you have created their own presentation tools in Perl? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Oct 05, 2003 at 20:15 UTC
I wrote and use Jellybean, specifically Jellybean::Container::Wiki and Jellybean::Container::WikiAnnotate. It's really easy to put the presentations online afterwards, too.	[reply]
Re: Re: How many of you have created their own presentation tools in Perl? by Jaap (Curate) on Oct 05, 2003 at 21:00 UTC
I read the page you refer to, and i still don't get it. What does it do? Is it a webserver? I thought Aristotle was talking about something like (excuse the cursing) PowerPoint.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: How many of you have created their own presentation tools in Perl? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Oct 05, 2003 at 23:29 UTC
It's a webserver written and extensible in Perl. For presentations, I write my slides in a Wiki format in a text editor, then run them through the Wiki and WikiAnnotate containers. This lets me display slides, one at a time, through my laptop. As well, the audience can connect to my laptop and view slides in any order and make notes on them.	[reply]
Re: How many of you have created their own presentation tools in Perl? by Roger (Parson) on Oct 06, 2003 at 00:27 UTC
A while back when I was working in the bill printing industry, I have written a template driven data merge engine for printing Bills, Letters, Statements, Notices, etc. It parses dynamic XML/XSL templates and merges them with incoming data based on various business logic, and generates Postscripts to be sent to the printer. The layout of the forms can be quite complicated, including tables that splits onto any follow-on pages, dynamic paragraphs based on data from input data stream, etc. I believe this can be classified as a presentation tool.	[reply]
Re: How many of you have created their own presentation tools in Perl? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 06, 2003 at 05:13 UTC
What is a "presentation tool"?	[reply]
Re: How many of you have created their own presentation tools in Perl? by zentara (Cardinal) on Oct 06, 2003 at 16:43 UTC
I like Tk::SlideShow	[reply]