[Tugindia] pdfscreen problem in Tamil/Malayalam Omega

[Nina Mazumdar]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Swami Pallasena <swami at math.mun.ca> wrote:
> Thanks very much for the help. It works fine.  But there is one minor
> problem.I want to use one of the pre-defined/pre-built overlays
> that come bundled with the pdfscreen package (that is,
> overlay1.pdf, overlay2.pdf,  etc).  With the preamble,
> \overlay(overlay4.pdf), for example, after loading pdfscreen package,
> when I run "lambda", it complains
> "cannot determine size of the graphic in overlay4.pdf (no bounding box)".
> For each of those pre-defined overlay pdf files in pdscreen bundle,
> how can I give the information regarding bounding box to "lambda"?
> Or, is there any short-cut method? Thanks in advance for any help.

Lambda does not digest graphics in *.pdf format.  You need to convert
the overlay pdf into *.eps format.  If you are in GNU/Linux, you may
do it with the command

  convert overlay4.pdf overlay4.eps

That will do the trick.

Happy TeXing and best regards

-- 
Nina