I am replying to two emails below: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jose' Matos wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:15, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from > > latex-beamer.sf.net. > > I have done this recently and I have used as example the one that comes > with beamer, I found it in the documentation for the package. I forgot to mention I already looked briefly at lyx/examples/beamerlyxexample1.lyx (although I didn't know it was in same download). But you encouraged me to look and I found several examples, including solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx which looks good. Thanks! I still need to figure out how to use a larger paper size though. On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: > I understand that recent versions of latex-beamer can be used to create > pdf files using the latex->dvi->ps->pdf conversion route, but historically > we've always had to use the pdflatex compiler, creating a pdf direct from > the latex file. Is the output different/better if you use this way to > create your pdf? Using pdflatex does work better for solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx -- it still is small, but uses up entire paper size. Using it for my document create a PDF that is unusable by xpdf and gv. xpdf says: Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table... Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary Error: Couldn't read xref table dvipdfm did work for me when reading with gv though. With xpdf it showed garbage fonts. The output size is y272x363 though. Way too small. Here is an example screenshot of page 2 of solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx using normal export to PDF (dvips first). http://pilchuck.reedmedia.net/jeremy/tmp-lcy84o3ubgkucw365p/beamer.png (22997 bytes) When I use pdflatex or dvipdfm, it is still same small size, but papersize is small too. I will see if I can integrate my presentation over to one of the examples templates. Any suggestions on how to get bigger than 272x363? I guess it doesn't matter since using zoom works fine. Jeremy C. Reed BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/
