See section 8 of the user manual for powerdot.
I believe you want to use ps2pdf to generate the pdf
file.
--- Rudi Gaelzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to create a presentation using powerdot
> for the first time.
>
> First, the powerdot-example.lyx file would not run
> because my xkeyval package
> was outdated. I tried to install xkeyval v2.5f and
> it forced me to install
> first the fourier-GUT package, which was also not
> present in my tetex
> distribution.
>
> After all that, I was able to generate the dvi from
> the powerdot-example.lyx
> file, but I'm still not able to create a pdf using
> pdflatex. I exported the
> lyx file to latex and tried to run pdflatex from the
> command line. It
> complains that the command [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] is
> undefined.
>
> I was only able to generate pdf using dvipdf. But I
> should be able to run
> pdflatex directly, right? This way I should have
> access to all special
> effects pdf can provide.
>
> Below, the log file from pdflatex. Any suggestions?
> Thank you.
>
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> 2007.6.28) 6 JUL 2007 10:47
> entering extended mode
> **powerdot-example
> (./powerdot-example.tex
> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
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> e
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> latin, magyar, norsk,
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> h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak,
> slovene, spanish, swedish,
> tur
> kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/powerdot/powerdot.cls
> Document Class: powerdot 2005/12/06 v1.3 powerdot
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> \slidewidth=\skip43
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> processing (HA)
>
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