I think I may have a fix, which I found (of course) not long after posting this (which was after many hours of tinkering and searching and tinkering...!)
\renewcommand\pgfsetupphysicalpagesizes{% \pdfpagewidth\pgfphysicalwidth\pdfpageheight\pgfphysicalheight% Not sure why it works, though.... K >>> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 6:20 PM, in message <505e0185.94ab.00c...@wlu.ca>, Karljurgen Feuerherm <kfeuerh...@wlu.ca> wrote: > Hi > > After being very frustrated when trying to create a Beamer handout, I > tried the minimal example below, which I found on the 'net. No go: like > before, the slides output were too large for the pagesize and I got only > the top left portion of each slide, regardless of options. > > Then, when I changed the engine to plain LaTeX, it worked fine. Any > idea what's going on? I really need unicode so this is not an acceptable > solution for me. (In which case I use polyglossia, not babel; but that's > orthogonal to my problem.) > > Outputs attached. > > Thanks > > K > ----- > \documentclass[handout]{beamer} > \usepackage[english]{babel} > > \mode<handout> > { > \usepackage{pgf} > \usepackage{pgfpages} > > \pgfpagesdeclarelayout{4 on 1 boxed} > { > \edef\pgfpageoptionheight{\the\paperheight} > \edef\pgfpageoptionwidth{\the\paperwidth} > \edef\pgfpageoptionborder{0pt} > } > { > \pgfpagesphysicalpageoptions > {% > logical pages=4,% > physical height=\pgfpageoptionheight,% > physical width=\pgfpageoptionwidth% > } > \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{1} > {% > border code=\pgfsetlinewidth{2pt}\pgfstroke,% > border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,% > resized width=.5\pgfphysicalwidth,% > resized height=.5\pgfphysicalheight,% > center=\pgfpoint{.25\pgfphysicalwidth}{.75\pgfphysicalheight}% > }% > \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{2} > {% > border code=\pgfsetlinewidth{2pt}\pgfstroke,% > border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,% > resized width=.5\pgfphysicalwidth,% > resized height=.5\pgfphysicalheight,% > center=\pgfpoint{.75\pgfphysicalwidth}{.75\pgfphysicalheight}% > }% > \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{3} > {% > border code=\pgfsetlinewidth{2pt}\pgfstroke,% > border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,% > resized width=.5\pgfphysicalwidth,% > resized height=.5\pgfphysicalheight,% > center=\pgfpoint{.25\pgfphysicalwidth}{.25\pgfphysicalheight}% > }% > \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{4} > {% > border code=\pgfsetlinewidth{2pt}\pgfstroke,% > border shrink=\pgfpageoptionborder,% > resized width=.5\pgfphysicalwidth,% > resized height=.5\pgfphysicalheight,% > center=\pgfpoint{.75\pgfphysicalwidth}{.25\pgfphysicalheight}% > }% > } > > > \pgfpagesuselayout{4 on 1 boxed}[letterpaper, border shrink=5mm, > landscape] > \nofiles > } > > \begin{document} > \begin{frame} > Frame One > \end{frame} > \begin{frame} > Frame Two > \end{frame} > \begin{frame} > Frame Three > \end{frame} > \begin{frame} > Frame Four > \end{frame} > \end{document} -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex