Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 18:06 -0700, Phil wrote: For me, it works only if remove option.nopsheader I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Well, part of the problem stemmed from my belief that the powerdot documentation was to be taken literally. They make a statement about putting the above into the options, which I obediently did. Once I remove them, the presentation comes up normally. Unfortunately this depends on what creates the pdf file (which is my ultimate goal, of course). dvipdfm - looks good as screen mode, but overlays show through as grey which I don't want. Xpdf is the same. pdflatex - this NEVER works. It dies in compilation with errors. ps2pdf - the greyed overlays are gone (totally hidden--good!), but the orientation is bad. It's placed on letter-portrait. If I add orient=portrait then I can see it all with dvipdfm but the greyed out material persists. Links (contents) don't work. ps2pdf works fine and all is seen. I have yet to find a combo (variations of letter=/orient=) which works the way I thought things would go to produce a full screen version, except plain portrait mode. ps2pdf is the only converter which properly creates a presentation with overlays completely out of sight. I'm glad to get the portrait version, but it would be nice to get a normal slide as well. I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Monday 28 September 2009 11:02:11 Kenward Vaughan wrote: Well, part of the problem stemmed from my belief that the powerdot documentation was to be taken literally. They make a statement about putting the above into the options, which I obediently did. Once I remove them, the presentation comes up normally. Unfortunately this depends on what creates the pdf file (which is my ultimate goal, of course). dvipdfm - looks good as screen mode, but overlays show through as grey which I don't want. Xpdf is the same. pdflatex - this NEVER works. It dies in compilation with errors. ps2pdf - the greyed overlays are gone (totally hidden--good!), but the orientation is bad. It's placed on letter-portrait. If I add orient=portrait then I can see it all with dvipdfm but the greyed out material persists. Links (contents) don't work. ps2pdf works fine and all is seen. I have yet to find a combo (variations of letter=/orient=) which works the way I thought things would go to produce a full screen version, except plain portrait mode. ps2pdf is the only converter which properly creates a presentation with overlays completely out of sight. I'm glad to get the portrait version, but it would be nice to get a normal slide as well. I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. Kenward, Firstly, check that your LaTeX installation meets the requirements specified in the Powerdot documentation (page 26). The ps2pdf conversion is the only one which will work properly with Powerdot. I have numerous presentations which work properly with the following options: nopsheader,style=horatio,display=slides,paper=screen These are set in Document Class (under Document Settings) as a string in Custom, under Class Options. The style can be any of the other Powerdot styles. Everything else in Document Settings I leave at whatever is the default, except for the Preamble. Here I fill in the PDF options using \pdsetup. -- .. Les Denham
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:59 -0500, Les Denham wrote: On Monday 28 September 2009 11:02:11 Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. Kenward, Firstly, check that your LaTeX installation meets the requirements specified in the Powerdot documentation (page 26). The ps2pdf conversion is the only one which will work properly with Powerdot. Yes, as I have found out. I have numerous presentations which work properly with the following options: nopsheader,style=horatio,display=slides,paper=screen These are set in Document Class (under Document Settings) as a string in Custom, under Class Options. The style can be any of the other Powerdot styles. Everything else in Document Settings I leave at whatever is the default, except for the Preamble. Here I fill in the PDF options using \pdsetup. Your choices still make no difference (screen mode on a portrait page). Regarding the reqs. for powerdot... those should be in place if the Debian packager has their stuff together. That seems to be the case, since I have found that a simple export to plain latex, followed by runs through latex, dvips, and ps2pdf, work perfectly (xpdf and acroread). I still am led to believe that something in LyX's script must have options in it which cause the failure to create this. I do appreciate your help! Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Monday 28 September 2009 05:59:54 pm Kenward Vaughan wrote: I still am led to believe that something in LyX's script must have options in it which cause the failure to create this. Kenward, Have you tried the sample file? It is /usr/share/lyx/examples/powerdot-example.lyx on the system I'm using this evening. It works perfectly out of the box. This is LyX 1.6.2 running on Kubuntu 9.04, and powerdot is provided by texlive-latex-recommended 2007.dfsg.1-5 in the main ubuntu repository. Debian is known for being rather slow in adopting releases, and while I have not used it myself, I have run into problems with LaTeX versions not working with Powerdot in other distributions. Les -- L. R. Denham http://www.hal-pc.org/~ldenham
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 18:06 -0700, Phil wrote: For me, it works only if remove option.nopsheader I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Well, part of the problem stemmed from my belief that the powerdot documentation was to be taken literally. They make a statement about putting the above into the options, which I obediently did. Once I remove them, the presentation comes up normally. Unfortunately this depends on what creates the pdf file (which is my ultimate goal, of course). dvipdfm - looks good as screen mode, but overlays show through as grey which I don't want. Xpdf is the same. pdflatex - this NEVER works. It dies in compilation with errors. ps2pdf - the greyed overlays are gone (totally hidden--good!), but the orientation is bad. It's placed on letter-portrait. If I add orient=portrait then I can see it all with dvipdfm but the greyed out material persists. Links (contents) don't work. ps2pdf works fine and all is seen. I have yet to find a combo (variations of letter=/orient=) which works the way I thought things would go to produce a full screen version, except plain portrait mode. ps2pdf is the only converter which properly creates a presentation with overlays completely out of sight. I'm glad to get the portrait version, but it would be nice to get a normal slide as well. I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Monday 28 September 2009 11:02:11 Kenward Vaughan wrote: Well, part of the problem stemmed from my belief that the powerdot documentation was to be taken literally. They make a statement about putting the above into the options, which I obediently did. Once I remove them, the presentation comes up normally. Unfortunately this depends on what creates the pdf file (which is my ultimate goal, of course). dvipdfm - looks good as screen mode, but overlays show through as grey which I don't want. Xpdf is the same. pdflatex - this NEVER works. It dies in compilation with errors. ps2pdf - the greyed overlays are gone (totally hidden--good!), but the orientation is bad. It's placed on letter-portrait. If I add orient=portrait then I can see it all with dvipdfm but the greyed out material persists. Links (contents) don't work. ps2pdf works fine and all is seen. I have yet to find a combo (variations of letter=/orient=) which works the way I thought things would go to produce a full screen version, except plain portrait mode. ps2pdf is the only converter which properly creates a presentation with overlays completely out of sight. I'm glad to get the portrait version, but it would be nice to get a normal slide as well. I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. Kenward, Firstly, check that your LaTeX installation meets the requirements specified in the Powerdot documentation (page 26). The ps2pdf conversion is the only one which will work properly with Powerdot. I have numerous presentations which work properly with the following options: nopsheader,style=horatio,display=slides,paper=screen These are set in Document Class (under Document Settings) as a string in Custom, under Class Options. The style can be any of the other Powerdot styles. Everything else in Document Settings I leave at whatever is the default, except for the Preamble. Here I fill in the PDF options using \pdsetup. -- .. Les Denham
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:59 -0500, Les Denham wrote: On Monday 28 September 2009 11:02:11 Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. Kenward, Firstly, check that your LaTeX installation meets the requirements specified in the Powerdot documentation (page 26). The ps2pdf conversion is the only one which will work properly with Powerdot. Yes, as I have found out. I have numerous presentations which work properly with the following options: nopsheader,style=horatio,display=slides,paper=screen These are set in Document Class (under Document Settings) as a string in Custom, under Class Options. The style can be any of the other Powerdot styles. Everything else in Document Settings I leave at whatever is the default, except for the Preamble. Here I fill in the PDF options using \pdsetup. Your choices still make no difference (screen mode on a portrait page). Regarding the reqs. for powerdot... those should be in place if the Debian packager has their stuff together. That seems to be the case, since I have found that a simple export to plain latex, followed by runs through latex, dvips, and ps2pdf, work perfectly (xpdf and acroread). I still am led to believe that something in LyX's script must have options in it which cause the failure to create this. I do appreciate your help! Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Monday 28 September 2009 05:59:54 pm Kenward Vaughan wrote: I still am led to believe that something in LyX's script must have options in it which cause the failure to create this. Kenward, Have you tried the sample file? It is /usr/share/lyx/examples/powerdot-example.lyx on the system I'm using this evening. It works perfectly out of the box. This is LyX 1.6.2 running on Kubuntu 9.04, and powerdot is provided by texlive-latex-recommended 2007.dfsg.1-5 in the main ubuntu repository. Debian is known for being rather slow in adopting releases, and while I have not used it myself, I have run into problems with LaTeX versions not working with Powerdot in other distributions. Les -- L. R. Denham http://www.hal-pc.org/~ldenham
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 18:06 -0700, Phil wrote: > For me, it works only if remove option.nopsheader > > > > I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, > > paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed > > out as well. Well, part of the problem stemmed from my belief that the powerdot documentation was to be taken literally. They make a statement about putting the above into the options, which I obediently did. Once I remove them, the presentation comes up "normally." Unfortunately this depends on what creates the pdf file (which is my ultimate goal, of course). dvipdfm - looks good as screen mode, but overlays show through as grey which I don't want. Xpdf is the same. pdflatex - this NEVER works. It dies in compilation with errors. ps2pdf - the greyed overlays are gone (totally hidden--good!), but the orientation is bad. It's placed on letter-portrait. If I add "orient=portrait" then I can see it all with dvipdfm but the greyed out material persists. Links (contents) don't work. ps2pdf works fine and all is seen. I have yet to find a combo (variations of letter=/orient=) which works the way I thought things would go to produce a full screen version, except plain portrait mode. ps2pdf is the only converter which properly creates a presentation with overlays completely out of sight. I'm glad to get the portrait version, but it would be nice to get a "normal" slide as well. I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Monday 28 September 2009 11:02:11 Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Well, part of the problem stemmed from my belief that the powerdot > documentation was to be taken literally. They make a statement about > putting the above into the options, which I obediently did. Once I > remove them, the presentation comes up "normally." > > Unfortunately this depends on what creates the pdf file (which is my > ultimate goal, of course). > > dvipdfm - looks good as screen mode, but overlays show through as grey > which I don't want. Xpdf is the same. > > pdflatex - this NEVER works. It dies in compilation with errors. > > ps2pdf - the greyed overlays are gone (totally hidden--good!), but the > orientation is bad. It's placed on letter-portrait. > > If I add "orient=portrait" then I can see it all with dvipdfm but the > greyed out material persists. Links (contents) don't work. ps2pdf > works fine and all is seen. > > I have yet to find a combo (variations of letter=/orient=) which works > the way I thought things would go to produce a full screen version, > except plain portrait mode. ps2pdf is the only converter which properly > creates a presentation with overlays completely out of sight. > > I'm glad to get the portrait version, but it would be nice to get a > "normal" slide as well. > > I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get > translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from > whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. Kenward, Firstly, check that your LaTeX installation meets the requirements specified in the Powerdot documentation (page 26). The ps2pdf conversion is the only one which will work properly with Powerdot. I have numerous presentations which work properly with the following options: nopsheader,style=horatio,display=slides,paper=screen These are set in Document Class (under Document Settings) as a string in Custom, under Class Options. The style can be any of the other Powerdot styles. Everything else in Document Settings I leave at whatever is the default, except for the Preamble. Here I fill in the PDF options using \pdsetup. -- .. Les Denham
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:59 -0500, Les Denham wrote: > On Monday 28 September 2009 11:02:11 Kenward Vaughan wrote: > ... > > I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get > > translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from > > whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. > > Kenward, > > Firstly, check that your LaTeX installation meets the requirements specified > in > the Powerdot documentation (page 26). > > The ps2pdf conversion is the only one which will work properly with Powerdot. Yes, as I have found out. > I have numerous presentations which work properly with the following options: > > nopsheader,style=horatio,display=slides,paper=screen > > These are set in Document Class (under Document Settings) as a string in > Custom, under Class Options. The style can be any of the other Powerdot > styles. Everything else in Document Settings I leave at whatever is the > default, except for the Preamble. Here I fill in the PDF options using > \pdsetup. Your choices still make no difference (screen mode on a portrait page). Regarding the reqs. for powerdot... those should be in place if the Debian packager has their stuff together. That seems to be the case, since I have found that a simple export to plain latex, followed by runs through latex, dvips, and ps2pdf, work perfectly (xpdf and acroread). I still am led to believe that something in LyX's script must have options in it which cause the failure to create this. I do appreciate your help! Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Monday 28 September 2009 05:59:54 pm Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I still am led to believe that something in LyX's script must have > options in it which cause the failure to create this. Kenward, Have you tried the sample file? It is /usr/share/lyx/examples/powerdot-example.lyx on the system I'm using this evening. It works perfectly out of the box. This is LyX 1.6.2 running on Kubuntu 9.04, and powerdot is provided by texlive-latex-recommended 2007.dfsg.1-5 in the main ubuntu repository. Debian is known for being rather slow in adopting releases, and while I have not used it myself, I have run into problems with LaTeX versions not working with Powerdot in other distributions. Les -- L. R. Denham http://www.hal-pc.org/~ldenham
Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
Hi all, I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on portrait paper (if that makes any sense). I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Am I missing something? Or perhaps more directly, what am I missing? Thanks for any leads! Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 17:16 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hi all, I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on portrait paper (if that makes any sense). I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Am I missing something? Or perhaps more directly, what am I missing? Thanks for any leads! Changing to orient=portrait, paper=letterpaper works to give a readable set in portrait mode, but changing to landscape still gives an off-the-slide problem. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
For me, it works only if remove option.nopsheader I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well.
Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
Hi all, I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on portrait paper (if that makes any sense). I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Am I missing something? Or perhaps more directly, what am I missing? Thanks for any leads! Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 17:16 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hi all, I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on portrait paper (if that makes any sense). I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Am I missing something? Or perhaps more directly, what am I missing? Thanks for any leads! Changing to orient=portrait, paper=letterpaper works to give a readable set in portrait mode, but changing to landscape still gives an off-the-slide problem. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
For me, it works only if remove option.nopsheader I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well.
Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
Hi all, I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on portrait paper (if that makes any sense). I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Am I missing something? Or perhaps more directly, what am I missing? Thanks for any leads! Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 17:16 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a > problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on > portrait paper (if that makes any sense). > > I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, > paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed > out as well. > > Am I missing something? Or perhaps more directly, what am I missing? > > Thanks for any leads! Changing to orient=portrait, paper=letterpaper works to give a readable set in portrait mode, but changing to landscape still gives an off-the-slide problem. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
For me, it works only if remove option.nopsheader > I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, > paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed > out as well.
