[tex-live] (no subject)

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 01:46:16 CET 2009


Yes, it was resolved but unfortunatelly a new thread was started for
it with no subject, search for "beamer dvips" should find it.

The solution is: run dvips with option -t unknown

2009/3/28  <hmc0907 at yahoo.com>:
> Hi Zdenek,
>
> I haven't catched your follow ups. Has the problem been resolved?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --- On Fri, 2/27/09, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] (no subject)
> To: hmc0907 at yahoo.com
> Cc: "TeX Live" <tex-live at tug.org>
> Date: Friday, February 27, 2009, 4:43 AM
>
> 2009/2/24 Steve MC Han <hmc0907 at yahoo.com>:
>> Hi Zdenek,
>>
>> Thanks for your response.
>>
>>
>> <<Could you send me the file? I could try it on Linux. I have both
>> TL2007 and 2008.>>
>>
>>
>> "Daniel Becker" daniel.becker at uni-rostock.de siad it was OK with Mac too.
>>
>> <compiles fine with TexLive 2008 and dvips(k) 5.97 and ps2pdf13
>> (Ghostscript  8.61) on Mac OS X. But isn't the beamer package supposed to
>> be
>> used with pdflatex?
>>
>> Daniel>
>>
>> Anyway here is the file and attached is output.
>>
> I have tried with TL 2007 and TL 2008 installed a few months ago,
> everything works fine. Then I used "tlmgr update" to get the latest TL
> 2008 and now I have the same bug. Could someone write me where I can
> find the log file from tlmgr update? Apparently something wrong
> happened between the old and current version and the log could help to
> find it.
>
>>
>> I didn't have to set paper size when I use TexLive 2007.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> \documentclass{beamer}
>> \usepackage{beamerthemesplit}
>> \title{Example Presentation Created with the Beamer Package}
>> \author{Till Tantau}
>> \date{\today}
>> \begin{document}
>> \special{papersize=width,height}
>> \frame{\titlepage}
>> \section[Outline]{}
>> \frame{\tableofcontents}
>> \section{Introduction}
>> \subsection{Overview of the Beamer Class}
>> \frame
>> {
>>   \frametitle{Features of the Beamer Class}
>>   \begin{itemize}
>>   \item<1-> Normal LaTeX class.
>>   \item<2-> Easy overlays.
>>   \item<3-> No external programs needed.
>>   \end{itemize}
>> }
>> \end{document}
>>
>> --- On Mon, 2/23/09, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [tex-live] (no subject)
>> To: hmc0907 at yahoo.com
>> Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 4:01 PM
>>
>> 2009/2/23 Steve MC Han <hmc0907 at yahoo.com>:
>>> Hi Zdenek,
>>>
>>> I tried \special{papersize=width,height}, but it didn't help (the
>> result was
>>> the same). I didn't have any trouble with TexLive 2007, so something
>> must
>>> have been changed.
>>>
>> Could you send me the file? I could try it on Linux. I have both
>> TL2007 and 2008.
>>
>>> Another possibility is to use -T dimensions when running dvips:
>>> How do you do that? I use WinEdt, so just click dvips, it execute
>>> automatically.
>>>
>> You would have to modify actions associated with the buttons but this
>> is not comfortable. That's why I prefer \special{papersize=...} for
>> dvips or xdvipdfmx and setting \pdfpagewidth and \pdfpageheight for
>> pdflatex. In fact I often use my own package zwpagelayout that does it
>> automatically (you find it on TL2008). It supports most important
>> standard paper sizes as well as custom paper sizes so that I can
>> write:
>>
>> \usepackage[papersize={10cm,16cm},...]{zwpagelayout}
>>
>> However, I do not know whether it could be used with beamer without
>> conflict, I have never tried.
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Steve
>>> --- On Mon, 2/23/09, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [tex-live] (no subject)
>>> To: "Steve MC Han" <hmc0907 at yahoo.com>
>>> Cc: "T T" <t34www at googlemail.com>, tex-live at tug.org
>>> Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 7:28 AM
>>>
>>> 2009/2/23 Steve MC Han <hmc0907 at yahoo.com>:
>>>> Hi Tomek,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your help in installation of TexLive.
>>>>
>>>> Can you give me some hint for this problem:  If I compiled the
>> following
>>>> file with latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf, then the result is something
>>> wrong (see
>>>> the attached aa.pdf). The same type of file was perfectly OK with
>>>> TexLive2007.
>>>>
>>>> I suspected this might be "dvips" problem, so I reinstalled
>>> ghostscript (old
>>>> version), but still having the same result. Can you figure out what
>> seems
>>> be
>>>> wrong?
>>>>
>>> You should set the correct papersize so that it is inserted in the PS
>>> file, otherwise ps2pdf takes the default which is "letter". The
>> best
>>> way is to include \special{papersize=width,height} in the preamble of
>>> your document or just below \begin{document}. If the class properly
>>> defines all dimensions, you can use \the\paperwidth and
>>> \the\paperheight as the dimensions. Another possibility is to use
>> -T
>>> dimensions when running dvips.
>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> \documentclass{beamer}
>>>> \usepackage{beamerthemesplit}
>>>> \title{Example Presentation Created with the Beamer Package}
>>>> \author{Till Tantau}
>>>> \date{\today}
>>>> \begin{document}
>>>> \frame{\titlepage}
>>>> \section[Outline]{}
>>>> \frame{\tableofcontents}
>>>> \section{Introduction}
>>>> \subsection{Overview of the Beamer Class}
>>>> \frame
>>>> {
>>>>   \frametitle{Features of the Beamer Class}
>>>>   \begin{itemize}
>>>>   \item<1-> Normal LaTeX class.
>>>>   \item<2-> Easy overlays.
>>>>   \item<3-> No external programs needed.
>>>>   \end{itemize}
>>>> }
>>>> \end{document}
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Zdeněk Wagner
>>> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
>>> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Zdeněk Wagner
>> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
>> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>>
>>
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>
>
> --
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
>



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