---
name: "prestimel"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "prestimel"
version: "1:1.0-3.2"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/prestimel"
---

# prestimel(1)

a tool to create HTML presentations

## NAME

PresTiMeL - a tool to create HTML presentations

## SYNOPSIS

**prestimel** \[OPTIONS\] \[FILE\]

## DESCRIPTION

*PresTiMeL* is a tool to create a presentation out of a XML-file. For each slide, *PresTiMeL* will create one (or a set of) HTML-file(s), which can be shown in a Web browser of your choice. Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) are used to define how big a text-item has to be, which font and color it should have, etc. That means, you will need a Web browser which supports CSS (like Netscape 4.\* or Internet Explorer 4.\*).

Optional, it's possible to create a LaTeX-file, which can be used to create and print some handouts of the presentation.

## OPTIONS

- **-v, --version**

  Print the version of PresTiMeL and exit.

- **-h, --help**

  Display a short usage-message and a list of all commandline options.

- **-l***\[file.tex\]***, --latex-output***\[=file.tex\]*

  Create a LaTeX-file ile.tex rather than HTML-slides.

- **-p** *DIR***, --path-to-themes=***DIR*

  Set the path, where PresTiMeL will look for themes.

- **-t***\[theme\]***, --theme***\[=theme\]*

  Set a theme, which will be used for the presentation. If the given theme doesn't exist or no theme is given, a list of all availaible themes in the current themepath will be printed. As the theme is an optional argument, no whitespace is allowed between the option and the theme.

- **-c** *FILE***, --config-file=***FILE*

  Use the specified configuration-file to initialize PresTiMeL's settings. If omitted, PresTiMeL will search for a config-file *.prestimelrc* located in your home-directory.

- **-x, --disable-xml-settings**

  Disable the settings stored in the XML-file of the presentation.

- **-R** *RES***, --resolution=***RES*

  Set the resolution, for which the HTML-presentation will be optimized. Possible values are *640x480*, *800x600* and *1024x768*. The default value is *800x600*.

- **-B, --disable-background**

  Each HTML-slide will have a tiled background-graphic. If this option is given, this background-graphic will be disabled for all slides.

- **-H, --disable-header**

  The headline of each slide has an own background-graphic. If this option is given, this background-graphic will be disabled for all headlines.

- **-F, --disable-first-last**

  Each HTML-slide will have navigation-buttons to the first, the previous, the next and the last slide. If this option is given, the navigation-buttons to the first and last slide will be disabled.

- **-N, --disable-note-button**

  Each slide may have a note, which is just an own HTML page with some additional information to the slide. Each slide that has some notes defined will show a button to access them. If this option is given, these note-buttons will be disabled for all slides.

- **-S, --sloppy-buttons**

  Normally, the navigation-buttons will always be drawn at the bottom of the slide at a fixed position defined in the stylesheet. If this option is given, the buttons will be moved down, when the content of the slide is higher than the provided vertical space.

- **-T, --top-navigation**

  If this option is given, the navigation-buttons will be drawn at the top of the slides rather than at the bottom.

- **-O, --print-outline**

  This option is related to the LaTeX-output. If given, the LaTeX-output will use the documentclass "article" rather than "seminar".

## EXAMPLES

- **prestimel -tplasma -R 1024x768 presentation.xml**

  Create a HTML presentation from the file *presentation.xml*, using the theme *plasma* and a resolution of *1024x768*.

- **prestimel -p /home/linus/themes -t**

  List all the themes stored in the directory */home/linus/themes*.

- **prestimel -l example.xml**

  Create a LaTeX-file out of the file *example.xml*. The name of the LaTeX-file will be *presentation.tex* and may be used to print handouts of the presentation.

## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

- **LC\_MESSAGES**

  Select the language for the messages. Supported languages are *de* (German), *pt\_BR* (Portuguese/Brazil), *es* (Spanish), *hu* (Hungarian) and *fr* (French).

## FILES

$HOME/.prestimelrc

## AUTHOR

Bernhard Trummer \<bernhard.trummer@gmx.at\> Benjamin Drieu \<bdrieu@april.org\>

## SEE ALSO

 **prestimelrc**(5)