[tex-live] (no subject)

[Zdenek Wagner]

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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http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz