htmlslides - The HTML Slideshow Authoring Tool by Steve Litt. Copyright (c) 2000 Steve Litt, Orlando, FL. USA. slitt@troubleshooters.com. PROJECT WEBSITE: http://www.troubleshooters.com/projects/htmlslides/index.htm LICENSE: AS-IS: NO WARRANTEE! This software is Open Source licensed under the GNU GPL license. See the file named COPYING in the htmlslides directory for a copy of the GNU GPL (General Public License), version 2. If, for some reason it's not there, you can obtain a copy from the Free Software Foundation: Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330 Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html. RECENT NEWS: The alpha version has just been released. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: * Linux or UNIX or UNIX clone * Perl 5 or better INSTALLATION: * unzip or gunzip/tar --extract to a directory tree * Go to the directory below which you want to install the htmlslides tree (let's call it whatever) * place htmlslides-0.5.0.tgz there * If the browser swaps underscores for some of the dots, i.e. umenu-0_5_0.tgz just work with the filenames it gives you in the following steps. * tar -xzvf htmlslides-0.5.0.tgz to create the htmlslides tree * Go to the newly created htmlslides/sample directory * Issue the command ../htmlslides samplepresentation slidetemplate toctemplate * If all is well, only a copyright notice prints, and the slideshow is created. * Verify the slideshow by pulling up toc.html in a browser, and follow the links. * Once everything is running, replace the use lib '../' directory string in the htmlslides script file to reflect the absolute location of Wpager.pm. * Verify that everything still runs. DEFAULT DIRECTORY STRUCTURE whatever/htmlslides | |--README (This file) |--COPYING (The license agreement) |--htmlslides (The main program) |--Wpager.pm (The Wpager class code) |--sample | |--toctemplate.html (Sample Table of Contents template) | |--slidetemplate.html (Sample slide template) | `--samplepresentation.html (Sample single file show-wide HTML file) `--htmldoc |--index.htm (links to project html docs) |--cpyright.htm (HTMLized copyright info) `--config.htm (HTMLized configuration info) CONFIGURATION: See in the whatever/htmlslides/doc/htmldoc/config.htm in this UMENU distribution. See the project website at http://www.troubleshooters.com/umenu/index.htm. IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS: See the Troubleshooting section of whatever/htmlslides/doc/htmldoc/config.htm See project website http://www.troubleshooters.com/projects/htmlslides/index.htm MAINTAINERS: Steve Litt: slitt@troubleshooters.com More soon to come. Regards, Steve Litt. ======================================================================= End.