[PPower4] dumb questions from a dumb guy
Hi, I was trying to experiment with the pp4. I started by downloading and installing the tu-darmstad software on my PC, then -- to get more familiar with the thing -- I used an example stored in the MiKTeX (texmf\doc\latex\pdfslide\manual.tex) directory by that Indian guy Radhakrishnan. I converted the original pdf file (found in the same directory) with the help of pp4 without any trouble. Then I tried to convert some (step-by-step) presentation of my own and I failed. I am getting a message (see below) that I don't understand (I know nothing about java, I am sorry). Exactly the same message appears if I compile the Radhakrishnan.'s tex file on my computer and try to process the resulting pdf with the PP4. Here it comes: Exception in thread main java.lang.Class castException: java.lang. String at com.etymon.pj.PdfParser.parsePdfParser.java:353 at com.etymon.pj.PdfParser.getObjectsPdfParser.java:41 at com.etymon.pj.Pdf.readFromFilePdf.java:789 at com.etymon.pj.Pdf.initPdf.java:53 at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.pp4.PP4Pages.workPP4Pages.java:718 at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.pp4.PP4Power.mainPPower4.java:174 Press any key... I understand that something essential is wrong in my installation (Java? PP4?) or ??? a simple (and oldish) physicist, an old-time LaTeX addict, I am a bit lost at the modern computer wizzardy. Thanks in advance === Andrzej Lenda, Associate Professor Faculty of Physics Nuclear Techniques Univ. of Mining and Metallurgy PL-30-059 Krakow, al. Mickiewicza 30 phone: +48 (12) 617 29 57 fax: +48 (12) 634 00 10 phone (home) +48(12) 626 38 08 mobile: +48 507 137 247 === =
Re: [PPower4] pause.sty and vertical spacing
Jean-Christophe Dubacq writes:
Often enough, when using slides with ppower4 and little vertical space,
I am bothered by the fact that \pause corrupts the vertical spacing
(ie it does not act as equivalent to \let\pause\relax). I must take care
to put my \pause in awkward places (before \end{itemize}, e.g.) because
if put after in inserts more vertical space.
Is it possible to change this ? This would be a great gain for
pause.sty.
Indeed that would be nice. But I do not have an idea how to achieve
that.
The problem is that \pause inserts something into the resulting pdf/dvi
output stream to control the post processor. Thus there is some care
needed to place the uses properly, because TeX may insert glue before
or after the almost invisible \pause, if you do not take care.
Because of this the manual suggests to put the \pause close to printed
material.
I am sorry for not being able to offer a better solution.
Klaus
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Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED]
FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt
Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
