Neal Becker wrote:
> I have the misfortune to be commanded to produce ppt. So I took one of my
> equations, in lyx. I chose beamer so I get something that'll look good on a
> slide. I put
> \beamertemplatenavigationsymbolsempty
>
> so crop will work.
>
> When exported export/pdf(crop), it looks OK, but it's too small. I import to
> M$ PPT by opening in acroread and copy file to clipboard.
>
> So I need something that'll resize the pdf (or convince lyx/beamer to output
> something bigger in the first place).
>
> I tried the latter without success.
>
> Putting in preamble
> \geometry{paper=a4paper}
>
> didn't seem help.
>
> Finally, I found this magic incantation:
>
> gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPAPERSIZE=a5 -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage -
> dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -o eq1_2.pdf eq1.pdf
>
> Then run through
> pdfcrop
>
> Finally, not a bad result (oh, did you want that centered on the slide?)
>
> Any better ideas?
I found another solution:
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\pgfpagesuselayout{resize to}[a4paper,landscape,border shrink=5mm]
although this is not quite as large as I'd like. Maybe I can learn the
pdfpages
options and improve it.
