Friedemann Kemm writes:
> Today I tried to create thumbnails for a presentation made with ppower4.
> For this I used the thumbpdf package. But if I do this naively all
> thumbnails except of the first one are assigned to the wrong page.
This is more than I get. I can't produce thumbnails at all, even if I
ignore the warning that the MediaBox was not found (which is in the
pdf file). I use THUMBPDF 1.4, 22.04.1999 from teTeX 1.0.x
> Now, is there any possibility to create thumbnails automatically for a
> ppower4 presentation (without using commercial programs)?
I do not see any currently.
But to the topic:
What do you expect?
Would you like to see a thumbnail for all pages, one for all new
starting pages, or one for all complete pages?
What would you like to use the thumbnails for?
- Helping readers to navigate?
I would not recommend to let people click through the possibly long
list of intermediate pages. When we used preliminary versions of P^4
last summer during a lecture, we prepared a version without pauses
for the students. The incremental build is in my opinion something
for the presentation, not for handouts or further circulation.
- Helping you to enter the presentation in the next session on the
proper page?
During the lecture we found, that there were corrections and
additions needed after each lecture. So it was no additional effort
to shift one hypertarget through the document from session to
session and jump to the page to continue from the first page.
Not to mention that we shortened the file from time to time to speed
up processing on our low performance laptop.
- Did you notice, that Acrobat Reader can display a stream of pages
in two columns to get an overview? See View->Continuous - Facing
I find that more readable than thumbnails.
- What else?
You may still need P^4 to create the backgrounds for a version with
thumbnails, but then it will not have additional pages.
Does that help you?
Klaus
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FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt
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