Latex beamer class

I was only just getting used to prosper, a LATEX class for producing projections, presentations, when a colleague from the mathematics department, Tammo Jan Dijkema, pointed me to another one: the beamer class. He also pointed me to another colleague who has made a local Utrecht University style, all `ready out of the box’.

Installing beamer is a piece of cake. Apart from pgf and xcolor (which are on offer on the same pages), there are no dependencies on particular packages. In a normal tex installation everything apart from beamer should be in place.
In TeXShop, one can keep using the typesetting default of pdfetex, without having to switch to Ghostscript just to typeset your presentations.

The styles that are available for beamer (included in the CTAN-package, or, in the Utrecht-case, available on the internet) are mostly gorgeous!

What is more: beamer is far easier to manipulate than prosper!

Arthur van Dam’s Utrecht-theme
Home of the beamer class (and pgf and xcolor). Explanations and installation instructions are all transparent.