name beamer category Package shortdesc A LaTeX class for producing presentations and slides. longdesc The beamer LaTeX class can be used for producing slides. Its longdesc functionality is similar to Prosper but does not need any external longdesc programs and can directly produce a presentation using pdflatex. longdesc Beamer uses pgf for pdf/ps independent graphics. Frames are longdesc created using \frame{...}, and a frame can build multiple slides longdesc through a simple notation for specifying material for each slide longdesc within a frame. Beamer supports bibliographies, appendicies and longdesc transitions. Short versions of title, authors, institute can also longdesc be specified as optional parameters. A \plainframe{} allows a longdesc picture, for example, to fill the whole frame. Support figure and longdesc table environments, transparency effects, a \transduration longdesc command, animation commands, a pauses environment. Beamer also longdesc provides compatibility with other packages like prosper. longdesc [description copied from TeX Catalogue] depend Package/pgf