[O] Beamer handouts, pgfpages, no love
Hi,
Today I was playing around with exporting a beamer presentation for handouts,
following the advice online to use pgfpages for saving dead trees. I'm not sure
if it's an org problem or a LaTeX problem.
Exporting to a presentation is no problem:
#+startup: beamer
#+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [presentation]
#+BEAMER_THEME: default
For handouts, I tried changing it like this:
#+startup: beamer
#+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [handout]
#+BEAMER_THEME: default
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{pgfpages}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[a4paper,border shrink=5mm]
One problem: if I use any :BMCOL: tags, I get strange errors like this:
! LaTeX Error: \begin{minipage} on input line 117 ended by \end{altenv}.
... where the entity that is \ended could be several different things.
So I tried :noexport:ing all the sections that have columns, and now the export
completes without fatal errors, but pgfpages then ends up making each frame
about twice as large, instead of half. As far as I can see, it is actually
trying to put two slides on each page (I can see only every other one), but
each frame is so much larger than it's supposed to be that I can only see part
of one of the two.
I'm using xelatex, if that makes any difference.
I could find list messages from about a year ago where somebody was
successfully using pgfpages. I have no idea why it was working for him but not
for me. His latex_header stuff was pretty similar to what I have above.
Thanks,
hjh
PS Belated thanks to Nick for answering the question of mine about emphasis
markup and footnote tags. I haven't had a chance to try yet, but I did see the
reply.
Re: [O] Beamer handouts, pgfpages, no love
Hello,
James Harkins writes:
> Today I was playing around with exporting a beamer presentation for
> handouts, following the advice online to use pgfpages for saving dead
> trees. I'm not sure if it's an org problem or a LaTeX problem.
>
> Exporting to a presentation is no problem:
>
> #+startup: beamer
> #+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
> #+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [presentation]
> #+BEAMER_THEME: default
>
> For handouts, I tried changing it like this:
>
> #+startup: beamer
> #+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
> #+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [handout]
> #+BEAMER_THEME: default
> #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{pgfpages}
> #+LATEX_HEADER: \pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[a4paper,border shrink=5mm]
>
> One problem: if I use any :BMCOL: tags, I get strange errors like this:
>
> ! LaTeX Error: \begin{minipage} on input line 117 ended by \end{altenv}.
>
> ... where the entity that is \ended could be several different things.
An ECM could be useful. By the way, does the generated LaTeX code look
wrong?
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
Re: [O] Beamer handouts, pgfpages, no love
On Jun 30, 2013 7:22 PM, "Nicolas Goaziou" wrote: > James Harkins writes: > > > This example does reproduce the issue where the slides are rendered at > > twice their normal size, instead of half. (I installed TexLive 2012 -- > > I'm not using the outdated tex packages from Ubuntu.) > > > The generated LaTeX code looks correct. Why do you think it isn't? I never said that. I was only reporting some testing results. > And > if there's a problem, couldn't it be related to pgf instead of Org? Yes, that's quite likely. Just reporting some testing results. hjh
