On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:28:41AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>> Okay, I've got nice pdf slides with the seminar class and layout from
> >>> D. Tsur (toda!). I could print them out on transparencies for an
> >>> overhead projector. But acroread still does not rotate those landscape
> >>> slides automatically for a video presentation. What to do?
> > I think that the problem is in ps2pdf.
> > You can use dvipdfm to generate the PDF.
> > If you don't have dvipdfm installed, then after installing it select the
> > edit->reconfigure menu in lyx.
> I had this exact same issue. I tried playing with the PS/PDF values to no
> avail (I probably would have gotten it eventually).
>
> But instead of screwing with it any further, it just grabbed the most
> excellent "tex2pdf" Perl script that is floating around. It will also create
> your hyperlinks and thumbnails (but not bookmarks, at least not with my pdftex
> 0.13.x?). I'll post the URL to the program when I get home (check
> SourceForge?).
I believe that tex2pdf wouldn't help here, as pdflatex doesn't work properly
with the seminar class.
For doing PDF presentations, it is probably better to use PDFscreen or prosper
instead of seminar.
See http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/slides
