Re: How to make an A4 presentation with Beamer?
Steve, you don't need to do anything, because beamer does not produce paper. I collaborate a lot with a colleague in the US and do need to do anything for the presentations. For the papers he changes the LyX to Letter if he wants to print and I to A4 if I want to print. If you like, you can experiment with stuff like aspectratio=1610 in the Documents -> Settings... -> Document Class -> Custom which you need to read up on (aspect ration) in the (LaTeX) Beamer Manual. For your particular issue I would also search for "handout" in the (LaTeX) Beamer Manual. The MWE is a TeX document, by the way, not a LyX document. greetings, el On 2020-12-13 13:52 , Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I live in the US, so all my computer's defaults are set to the US, > including paper size. I have a customer in Europe for whom I need to > make a presentation, using Beamer (alone, not with LyX), printable on > A4 paper. > [...] On 2020-12-13 14:42 , Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:54:37 +0300 Baris Erkus wrote: On 13-Dec-20 2:52 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I live in the US, so all my computer's defaults are set to the US, including paper size. I have a customer in Europe for whom I need to make a presentation, using Beamer (alone, not with LyX), printable on A4 paper. I've tried various combinations and variants of the following : \usepackage{geometry} \special{papersize 29.7cm, 21cm} \hsize 29.7cm \vsize 21.0cm \usepackage[a4paper, total={29.5cm, 20.8cm}]{geometry} \geometry{letterpaper, landscape, total={11.5in, 8in}} Some forced the latex program to abort with error, some caused only a tiny rendering of the slide on a big A4 paper, some caused the printing to be portrait, when I could print landscape it printed upside down, what a mess. Does anyone have a way to use Beamer (not LyX/Beamer) to create a PDF that can print correctly on a European printer? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive Could you please send a MWE, so that we can have a look at it? That's a good idea, Baris, and I already sent the MWE files to you. In case anyone else wants to take a crack at it, I'm attaching four MWE files: mwe.beamer is the MWE source mwe.pdf is my attempt at A4. It's upside down, and the print is way smaller than it's supposed to be. kk is the shellscript that compiles mwe.beamer into mwe.pdf. All 3 files go in a single directory, and assuming you have the same texlive packages I have, it should compile to the same result mine did. What I want is a PDF, printable on A4, that has the right sized print and is right side up instead of upside down. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: How to make an A4 presentation with Beamer?
On 13-Dec-20 3:42 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:54:37 +0300 Baris Erkus wrote: On 13-Dec-20 2:52 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I live in the US, so all my computer's defaults are set to the US, including paper size. I have a customer in Europe for whom I need to make a presentation, using Beamer (alone, not with LyX), printable on A4 paper. I've tried various combinations and variants of the following : \usepackage{geometry} \special{papersize 29.7cm, 21cm} \hsize 29.7cm \vsize 21.0cm \usepackage[a4paper, total={29.5cm, 20.8cm}]{geometry} \geometry{letterpaper, landscape, total={11.5in, 8in}} Some forced the latex program to abort with error, some caused only a tiny rendering of the slide on a big A4 paper, some caused the printing to be portrait, when I could print landscape it printed upside down, what a mess. Does anyone have a way to use Beamer (not LyX/Beamer) to create a PDF that can print correctly on a European printer? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive Could you please send a MWE, so that we can have a look at it? That's a good idea, Baris, and I already sent the MWE files to you. In case anyone else wants to take a crack at it, I'm attaching four MWE files: mwe.beamer is the MWE source mwe.pdf is my attempt at A4. It's upside down, and the print is way smaller than it's supposed to be. kk is the shellscript that compiles mwe.beamer into mwe.pdf. All 3 files go in a single directory, and assuming you have the same texlive packages I have, it should compile to the same result mine did. What I want is a PDF, printable on A4, that has the right sized print and is right side up instead of upside down. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive AFAIK, Beamer class does not provide slides with A4 or Letter dimensions. The default size of slides are smaller than Letter sized papers, but when you open them for presentation using a PDF viewer, the PDF viewer shows the slides using the whole screen/projector area so you do not see any issue with the size. When you print them, the printer enlarges it to fit to the page margin, so probably you will not have an issue with that either. So the problem is not whether you use Letter-sized or A4-sized paper. It is simply Beamer does not provide slides with those dimensions. This is what I know, but forums such as Stack Exchange will have more correct information on this. What I do generally is I leave the PDF file as it is, and it is generally good enough to see on the screen as PDF viewers will enlarge it as necessary. When printing, you can tell the PDF viewer to fit to the margins of an A4 or A3 or Letter size paper. Alternatively, you can print the slides to A4 size with a PDF tool such as PDF X-change. This is not a LyX- problem so, I am not sure if the audience of this list has expertise on this matter. -- ↓↓ Please bottom-post. Start your reply here: -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: How to make an A4 presentation with Beamer?
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:54:37 +0300 Baris Erkus wrote: > On 13-Dec-20 2:52 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I live in the US, so all my computer's defaults are set to the US, > > including paper size. I have a customer in Europe for whom I need to > > make a presentation, using Beamer (alone, not with LyX), printable > > on A4 paper. > > > > I've tried various combinations and variants of the following : > > > > \usepackage{geometry} > > \special{papersize 29.7cm, 21cm} > > \hsize 29.7cm > > \vsize 21.0cm > > \usepackage[a4paper, total={29.5cm, 20.8cm}]{geometry} > > \geometry{letterpaper, landscape, total={11.5in, 8in}} > > > > Some forced the latex program to abort with error, some caused only > > a tiny rendering of the slide on a big A4 paper, some caused the > > printing to be portrait, when I could print landscape it printed > > upside down, what a mess. > > > > Does anyone have a way to use Beamer (not LyX/Beamer) to create a > > PDF that can print correctly on a European printer? > > > > Thanks, > > > > SteveT > > > > Steve Litt > > Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive > > Could you please send a MWE, so that we can have a look at it? > That's a good idea, Baris, and I already sent the MWE files to you. In case anyone else wants to take a crack at it, I'm attaching four MWE files: mwe.beamer is the MWE source mwe.pdf is my attempt at A4. It's upside down, and the print is way smaller than it's supposed to be. kk is the shellscript that compiles mwe.beamer into mwe.pdf. All 3 files go in a single directory, and assuming you have the same texlive packages I have, it should compile to the same result mine did. What I want is a PDF, printable on A4, that has the right sized print and is right side up instead of upside down. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive kk Description: Binary data mwe.beamer Description: Binary data mwe.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: How to make an A4 presentation with Beamer?
On 13-Dec-20 2:52 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I live in the US, so all my computer's defaults are set to the US, including paper size. I have a customer in Europe for whom I need to make a presentation, using Beamer (alone, not with LyX), printable on A4 paper. I've tried various combinations and variants of the following : \usepackage{geometry} \special{papersize 29.7cm, 21cm} \hsize 29.7cm \vsize 21.0cm \usepackage[a4paper, total={29.5cm, 20.8cm}]{geometry} \geometry{letterpaper, landscape, total={11.5in, 8in}} Some forced the latex program to abort with error, some caused only a tiny rendering of the slide on a big A4 paper, some caused the printing to be portrait, when I could print landscape it printed upside down, what a mess. Does anyone have a way to use Beamer (not LyX/Beamer) to create a PDF that can print correctly on a European printer? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive Could you please send a MWE, so that we can have a look at it? -- ↓↓ Please bottom-post. Start your reply here: -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
How to make an A4 presentation with Beamer?
Hi all, I live in the US, so all my computer's defaults are set to the US, including paper size. I have a customer in Europe for whom I need to make a presentation, using Beamer (alone, not with LyX), printable on A4 paper. I've tried various combinations and variants of the following : \usepackage{geometry} \special{papersize 29.7cm, 21cm} \hsize 29.7cm \vsize 21.0cm \usepackage[a4paper, total={29.5cm, 20.8cm}]{geometry} \geometry{letterpaper, landscape, total={11.5in, 8in}} Some forced the latex program to abort with error, some caused only a tiny rendering of the slide on a big A4 paper, some caused the printing to be portrait, when I could print landscape it printed upside down, what a mess. Does anyone have a way to use Beamer (not LyX/Beamer) to create a PDF that can print correctly on a European printer? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users