Re: About Acrobat Reader
Patrik Carlsson writes:
I thought dissolving was irritating on the web even when it worked.
Is that to mean that dissolving is something to avoid in a
presentation? If yes, I would not object to this statement.
But that is not special to P^4. It is introduced by hyperref. And if
it has problems with plug-ins, that should discussed with the hyperref
implementors, if they can do something about it.
Or are there any reasons not to use the Acrobat Reader for the
presentation, which I do not see now?
Simplicity and portability makes it worth it,
and there are a pair of features possible to
implement.
* "click to get to next page" even in plug-in mode
like in the context grondweet example.
http://www.ntg.nl/context/itdemos/internal/gw/gw-s.pdf
Sorry, I don't get the point. Maybe, because I don't use plug-ins.
I only noticed that the mouse cursor is always the pointing hand in
the quoted example and I did not like that, because I cannot identify
"real" hot spots any more.
* Some examples on including
movie files (or sound) for use with plugins.
Would that need post processing of the pdf file?
* Maybe a way to make images "hot" so
a click will zoom in on them.
Or that?
I don't know. But I do not expect that.
That's obviously possible features that aren't yet
done, most could possibly be done by other
means than P^4 or direct pdf hardcoding,
but if anyone has information on these things
I think they belong on this list.
If it doesn't need special post processing and can be done with
hyperref or another package, I would think you would reach a wider
audience and maybe volunteers on the pdftex list.
Klaus
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Re: pdf transitions between pages
Marc van Dongen writes:
: Hi, I've read the examples on the web page; what other transitions are
: possible ? I guess there is some documentation somewhere I haven't read yet.
[...]
I've added code for some commands below.
Thank you for answering this and for the command list.
Are there any objections to publish that on the web page?
: Is it possible to do effects like dimming text when you advance past a pause
: on a list so that you highlight the current text ? (I've been looking at
: what's possible in the example on http://www.utopiatype.com/pdf.html)
That would be cool.
I see David Wilson from Utopia Type had to do something, after PPower4
came close ;-)
Because the actions behind the macros are hidden I cannot see, whether
one can do that only easily on his way going from TeX first to PostScript
and then to PDF. Scanning the pdf text for all color settings to dim a
section seems to be rather expensive, because the color is set often,
if I recall that correctly.
What I would like to see is something which specifies:
te order in which things are shown. Maybe something along the lines of
\pause{1}{This first} \pause{3}{This last} \pause{2}{This second}
And next you would like to hide again parts of your former display, right?
That's what my boss asked for. But he didn't get that up to now either ;-)
Thinking about it changing all colors would be easier than keeping
track of the positioning if the pdf file.
None of these features are currently in my schedule. Some of them
require some cooperation/changes of pdftex, to make them easier to
implement.
But that is another nice thing in free software: if you need a
feature, you can pick the place, where it is implemented most easily,
effectively and/or properly.
Klaus
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Re: Different pdfslide.sty
Friedemann Kemm writes: Today I found on CTAN that there is a pdfslide.sty in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfslide that seems to be meant to be used in conjunction with ppower4. Indeed, to get incremental builds with this package pdfslide, you can use ppower4. It is not necessary to use this pdfslide package, to make use of ppower4. I have not been aware of this package and it seems to be rather new (according to file creation dates). But when I replace the pdfslide.sty I got with ppower4 by the other one, I get in trouble. Especially I am not able to work it with foils. This is not meant to be mixed. The pdfslide.sty from pp4sty.zip is meant as an initial configuration to use the foils package for slides in pdf format. Is there something known about this problem? Not to me, up to now. Or is there something planned to make these two versions of pdfslide.sty compatible? It will not be possible to interchange or mix the two, because one is a stand alone package and the other requires foils. A work around for the time being can be to rename the pdfslide.sty from pp4sty.zip to e.g. pp4slide.sty and use that in documents with foils. Or use pdfslide and abandon foils, if you like. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: slideframe ?
Stephan Lehmke writes: I'm still doing my slides with seminar, which works nicely with ppower. But you don't use frames, do you? I assume, frames might appear completely only with the final part of an incremental page. Further: What magic must one use, to have seminar and pdftex agree on the size of a page? Can you give a short sample? In my initial attempts with seminar and pdftex I got only small text in the upper part of the pdf page. Then I stayed with foils. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: Using PPower4 on Mac
Gérard Degrez writes:
manual.pdf is the the output of the compilation of the pdfslide manual with
pdftex, which I copied to the ppower4 directory (which is in the CLASSPATH
but maybe not in the input path). I had used the command options "-v
manual.pdf outputfile.pdf"
Any suggestion?
Try supplying the full location of the file, assuming that indeed the
open did not work. But normally Java would report something like
java.io.FileNotFoundException: manual.pdf (No such file or directory)
then.
Can you read this copy of manual.pdf with Acrobat Reader?
Klaus
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background.sty updated in pp4sty.zip
background.sty was updated today to correct a misspelling. Horizontal gradients using the two color option did not work. If you need this feature, please pick a fresh copy of pp4sty.zip. I'm sorry for any inconveniences caused by this update. Thanks to François Pétiard for reporting this problem. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: Printing presentations?
Oliver Pust writes:
Ok, that gives me just the complete slides but the background is still
there...
If you omit the background, you may not see the text with the
default color settings though (being written in white).
What color settings would you expect, if you omit the background?
Just bw?
Running latex on the source - after commenting out the background stuff
- gives me error messages like:
[...]
Package color Warning: pdftex option does not work with standard TeX.
You are right, my suggestion was incomplete.
Unfortunately you have to modify all options mentioning pdftex, as the
warning suggests.
For the LaTeX experts: is there an easy way to achieve that other than
using an
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
...
\usepackage[dvips]{...}
...
\else
...
\usepackage[pdftex]{...}
...
\fi
construct?
Klaus
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Re: slideframe ?
Stephan Lehmke writes: To be honest, the first thing I did was look at the file and wonder what the test was doing there, as no pdftex primitives were used. So I copied the code into a class file of mine. Klaus, is there a reason for this test? If not, could you take it out so I can use the style file with LaTeX instead of copying the code... When I wrote that style, the postprocessor did not yet exist and we used this form to build pages. The intention was to have the multiple pages only in the pdf file for presentation and to keep everything on ohne page for a normal latex run to prepare handouts. I kept it that way, but maybe we need another way of specifying whether \pause should be active or not. But be warned, TeX tries to be smart and sometimes you get strange results with texpause.sty. Dunno. If none of pdftex's special primitives are used, pdfTeX shouldn't be any dumber or smarter than TeX, no? That's right. pdftex isn't smarter. But both can try to squeeze another item on your page at the end at cost of reducing the glue between the upper items. This may give the impression of flickering pages, too. Of course you can avoid that reducing the shrinkability of glue items, but that is not done automat(g)ically. Doing the page split in the postprocessor avoids this problem because the page layout is done only once by pdftex. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: viewing presentations in linux
Matt Pharr writes: I'm running into a problem when I try to run acroread (Acrobat 4.0) under RedHat 6.0 on the pdf files that ppower4 creates--I consistently get error messages like: Exited with error code: 0x400e0009. Terminated with return code 9 or errors about segmentation faults in acroread, etc. Does acroread process the file without problems, which is created by pdflatex (i.e. before post processing)? Did you post process the file on the Linux machine? Does the same file display properly on other machines? Can you make such a file available? I can only report that we run PPower4 presentations currently twice a week during our lectures from a Linux machine running Mandrake 6.1, which is a descendant of RedHat 6.1, without such problems with Acrobat 4.0. No matter whether the file was created on Linux or on Solaris. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: problem with thumbnails
Ross Moore writes: I just joined this list. Is there an archive anywhere for previous messages? Not yet. Has anyone tried to use thumbnails with documents processed by PP4 ? With Heiko Oberdieck's thumbpdf.sty the thumbnails get out-of-sync with the PDF pages. That is covered in the faq, but unfortunately not with a solution. For example, with: ppower4 manual.pdf Manual4.pdf if thumnails are created with: thumbpdf manual.pdf (10 pages) then there are no thumbnails for the pages inserted by ppower4 . How should that be done? thumbpdf did not create the images for these. But if the thumbnails are created using: thumbpdf Manual4.pdf (21 pages) then only the first 10 thumbnails are used, being associated to the 10 pages of manual.pdf by pdflatex . Again, how should pdflatex know about the other pages? I don't know whether the fix should be handled by PP4 or by thumbpdf . Perhaps both need to know that the other is doing some work. I'm not sure that this can be fixed with the current strategy of both at all. Nicest would be for PP4 to detect the presence of thumbnails and count how many there are. If equal to the number of pages of input, then work as at present; if equal to the number of pages of output, then adjust the references to have one per page, retaining the correct order. To keep the concerns separated I would not like to add the feature of adding thumbnails to PPower4. I think there were good reasons to have that done in a separate step of running pdflatex again. But if two post processors require an unmodified file to base the action on, you're stuck. Why do I want thumbnails ? Well, a visiting academic remarked that it would be nice to have a view that allowed him, as presenter, to see what was coming ahead in a slide-show. This is exactly what thumbnails can be used for. I don't get the argument here. What equipment do you use, which allows the presenter to see thumbnails that the audience doesn't see? And what can you spot on the thumbnails? For me they are almost unreadable. Sorry for not providing a solution, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
background.sty updated in pp4sty.zip
background.sty was updated today to correct a misspelling. Horizontal gradients using the two color option did not work. If you need this feature, please pick a fresh copy of pp4sty.zip. I'm sorry for any inconveniences caused by this update. Thanks to François Pétiard for reporting this problem. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
archive of mailing list
An archive of this mailing list is now kept on http://www.mail-archive.com/ppower4%40iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ All subsequent messages should show up there automatically. Currently I am trying to feed the old messages from my personal log file into this archive. You find a link to the archive also in the (updated) FAQ, if you decide not to keep this message or to search the 2600+ lists stored on http://www.mail-archive.com/ Enjoy, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
adventurous?
No, this is not a spam message to sell you something for the upcoming
holiday season.
But I would like to make you aware of an addition to the home page of
PPower4 (http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/).
For the adventurous there is now another version of PPower4. It has the
same functionality as the previous version, but it is based on another
library to process the PDF file. We are currently developing this
library and have reached a state, that the functionality needed for
PPower4 is realized.
For the time being this new library (code name "PAUL" for "Pdf
Advanced Universal Library") is not yet available in source form,
because we reserve the right to change the API if needed.
If you test this version of PPower4, it will be easier for you to use
other upcoming tools based on our new library (e.g. for adding
thumbnails to PDF files). We expect these tools to become available
until mid February 2000.
Please note that the library requires Java version 1.2.x and thus does
not work with kaffe currently.
Any reports on experiences with this version are welcome.
Klaus
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Re: starting in the middle of a page
Wilfrid Pascher writes: In a slide my text should appear in the following order, starting in the middle of a page: 3 4 5 1 2 6 9 8 7 where 1 to 9 are blocks with text and figures of varying sizes, but each column has the same width. However, texts 1 and 9 overlap. Can I solve this problem using ppower4? Not easily. PPower4 insists on keeping the sequence of items in the file as TeX had written them and allows you only to insert breaks, currently. Is it possible to use a tabular environment or do I have to use a picture environment? Because the order must be kept, you would need a picture environment to place the items in the desired order to the intended places. That's not a beautiful solution though. Can you consider using TeXPower instead? Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: building graphics incrementally
Jonathan C. Mattingly writes:
I too am new to ppower4 and texpower. I have been trying to get
pictures to display incrementally. I read through the archive and
liked the idea of using metapost. I had never used the language but
xfig is fine for my needs, so I down loaded the new version, patched
it and new have an xfig version which outputs metapost. (I never quite
got texpower to work. I couldn't get it to stay in the landscape
mode. I am using pdflatex)
How do I put the \pause in ?
I'm sorry if my remark was misunderstood. The currently published
patches for using MetaPost do not yet support inserting \pause.
But at least using MetaPost one can easily integrate pictures into
pdflatex documents this way.
To use \pause you can only create output to LaTeX picture mode at the
moment. If you put a "special" tagged text \pause into a separate
depth things at the higher levels will appear first and lower levels
will be shown later.
The multi-depth support is still in the works and we will need some
more days to polish that
an example would we worth gold.
See http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/xfig/samples/
for a first example on building pictures incrementally in xfig with
output to picture environment.
Note that the .tex file needs to be included into a document for
processing.
Enjoy,
Klaus
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Re: pdfpagetransition
Michael Wiedmann writes:
Quoting Michael Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
is there a list available showing the possible values of the
pdfpagetransition key of the hyperref package?
Attached you find "pagetrans.tex" which I fetched sometime from some
unknown place. Originally it comes from Marc van Dongen [EMAIL PROTECTED].
I added some comments to show the valid values at two places.
You could refer to section 6.4.1.4 of the PDF reference manual (see
the link in the Ppower4 faq,
http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/faq.html)
for the details.
BTW: the file quoted is (in the unmodified form) available at the
Ppower4 site.
Klaus
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Re: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
Valmor de Almeida writes:
On a few occasions I have ran into this memory error message
(PPower4 version 0.8.4)
[1][2][3][4][5java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.pp4.PP4Pages.append(Compiled Code)
You should try to increase the heap size of your java interpreter.
Add an option to the java command in the ppower4 command script.
The command "java -X" lists the possible (non-standard) options.
You may need
-Xmxsizeset maximum Java heap size. example: -Xmx64m
Regards,
Klaus
P.S. Why do you run the post processor? You seem not to have used
\pause in your document up to page 5
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Re: rgb color definition
S. Klein writes: How do I define the color I know the RGB value of. Do I have to scale the values? See e.g. the file grfguide.ps. It says: rbg red green blue A comma separated list of three numbers between 0 and 1, giving the components of the colour. If you have 8 bit color values, you will have to divide these by 255 to scale them to the range 0.0 to 1.0. 2) I have to create a frame around the default slide: one line on each side (top, bottom, left, right), which are crossing in each corner. Also I have put the logo below the bottom line and a foil number. Is there an easy way to create such frames? Have you tried to configure pdfslide to your needs? Using other methods to build frames around pages are likely to fail with current versions of ppower4, because the frames are created in the output routine partly after the page contents are written. There are plans to handle such cases better in future releases of ppower4. 3) Is it possible to include gif-animations in the pdf-document created by pdfTeX and ppower4? (maybe this is not the right mailing list to ask that) I am not aware of a generally available method to build animations with pdfTeX. There exist commercial solutions to build something like animated gifs with embedded JavaScript. Do you really want animated gifs in a presentation? Or do you need features to build not only text but also pictures/graphics/figures under control of the presenter? 4) A very general question, but maybe an answer prevents me from asking a lot of stupid questions: Is there a summary of examples, tools, FAQs accessible via Internet? examples for LaTeX? www.tug.org, www.dante.de for pdftex?www.tug.org/applications/pdftex for presentations? www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/pdf_demos.html for ppower4 applications? www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/ tools for LaTeX? for pdftex? for presentations? FAQ for LaTeX? tug.org/docs/html/ptr-faq.html, www.loria.fr/services/tex/ for pdftex?not up to date? for ppower4 applications? www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/faq.html This list of links is by no means complete. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: mpmulti.sty
FEYEL Frederic. writes: I am new with ppower4 and I wonder where I can find the file named 'mpmulti.sty' ? That was available on our xfig patch page. I have added a new link to it in the demonstration file source section of the ppower4 beta page. Thank you for pointing this out. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: tetex version?
François Patte writes: I would like to know what is the "good" version of tetex to run a correct pdflatex? If you insist on "correct" this is a tricky question. It impossible to get a correct result with the demo packages from ppower4 home page. If you want to use PPower4, a recent teTeX-1.0 withd pdftex 13d is working fine. After all pdftex is a moving target and it is hard to keep up with _all_ updates and enhancements. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Update of pp4link.sty for the beta version 2
Ross Moore writes:
The only (minor) problem was with pdflatex leveldemo.tex
producing messages:
! pdfTeX warning (dest): name{first.7} has been referenced but does not exist,
replaced by a fixed one
There was one for every page.
I have made available an updated version of pp4link.sty on the PPower4
beta page, which creates a dummy reference to the whole page with
pdflatex. This strategy will avoid the warning messages issued by
pdftex 14. The link will be updated to refer to the first instance of
the incrementally built page by PPower4.
You do _not_ need to get a new beta version of the post processor.
There is nothing new now and the updated pp4link.sty works fine with
release beta2.
If you run pdftex 13, you can continue to use the old version of
pp4link.sty.
Regards,
Klaus
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Re: FullScreen and FitPage. How to do it?
Paulo Avilez Valente writes:
My question is:
is there any option (as there is pdfpagemode) to select FitPage inside \hypersetup ?
According to The LaTeX Web Companion (on p. 41) hyperref has an option
pdffitwindow which can be set to "true".
So you may try pdffitwindow=true
Disclaimer: I have not tried this, because I never had noticed the
problem you descibed, but hope that it can help.
Klaus
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Re: pp4 on the Mac
Maarten Sneep writes: I'd like to run pp4 on the Mac. To do this, it seems I need to write a wrapper HTML page that loads the applet. No. PPower4 is not written as an applet. It is a Java program. Anyone any idea how to do this? Try to start it with the Java runtime environment. But not being a Mac user I have no idea what you need to do for this and how you can supply command line arguments for the file names on the Mac. There have been discussuions on this in November 1999 (see the archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/ppower4%40iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ ) Can someone else help with more detailed suggestions? Regards, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: seminar.sty and including postscript
Ellie Margaret Povey writes: 1. Can ppower4 be used (easily) with the seminar package rather than the foiltex/foils package? How? If I recall that correctly seminar has some strange behaviour concerning page size selection if used with pdflatex. Thus I would not recommend to use it with PPower4. You may try pdfslide, if you do not like foiltex. 2. How do I include eps figures in foiltex? As usual. With latex you can use eps figures without problems. But pdflatex does not allow to include eps figures. You have to convert the figures to pdf or metapost first, if you plan to use PPower4, which requires to use pdflatex. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
update to beta4 and support for Mac users
1. The new beta version (beta4) is out. It is a pure bug fix version. Sorry, no new features/documentation this time. The version fixes a problem with multiple highlighting of chunks. 2. Maarten Sneep's user interface for the Mac is now available from the PPower4 home page. It works only for the regular version, not for any beta now, lacking support of newer Java versions on the Mac. Enjoy, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
[PPower4] Re: pause placement
Vesselinov, Vladimir writes:
I want to use the effect "Walking through a list" and want to show
first the foil-head and start after that with the list. So I put a
\pause into the foilhead ( \foilhead {Text \pause}). But the foilhead
and the list appear nevertheless at the same time.
I'm sorry, I think I still do not understand, what you want.
There are two different styles of presenting slides:
- one builds the slide one piece after the other,
- one shows everything at once and can highlight important parts
step by step.
The cited example is one of the second style. Why do you expect, that
something should appear in this style, if you do not tag it that way?
If you just add \pause commands, everything will continue to appear
immediately.
Please note that \pausehighlight has an effect for all levels of a
slide, not only from the level, when you mention it.
If you want to _mix_ both styles, you will need to add more tags to the
chunks, because the system cannot guess a reasonable behaviour by
default.
Regards,
Klaus
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Re: [PPower4] xfig - metapost - ppower4
Karel Dekimpe writes: I drew an ellips in xfig and exported it in metapost format. Afterwards I included this picture in a LaTeX-file and ran pdflatex. The resulting pdf-file was 100% OK and contained a beautiful ellips. However, after applying ppower4 to this pdf-file, the new pdf-file did still contain a figure but it was no longer a beautiful ellips, but somehow a very bad approximation of an (crooked) ellips. You did not mention which version of PPower4 you use. I tried with the beta5 version and could not see any problems. Klaus Guntermann -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: [PPower4] Automatic advancing in ppower4
Vikram Krishnamurthy writes: I currently have a latex picture with several pauses. I am hoping to use \pageDuration to automatically run thru this latex picture to appear as a live animation. However, I cannot seem to stop \pageDuration within the page. This is right. Currently you can only use the _same_ pageDuration for all parts of a page with PPower4. Sorry. Klaus Guntermann -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: [PPower4] \pause
Marc van Dongen writes:
I am having the following problems with pause.
After, say a verbatim group, I wish to put a \pause
before an itemized group.
\begin{verbatim}
...
\end{verbatim}
\pause
\begin{itemize}
..
\end{itemize}
The problem is that (I think) LaTeX thinks the
pause is a printable character in a paragraph
by its own. It therefore reserves paragraph space
for the character and the resulting layout differs
[...]
The reason is that \pause inserts the rectangle to visualize the spot
it is applied at for proof reading without post processing.
Maybe that was a bad idea and it should get an option th omit the
colo(u)red spots. Nevertheless the commands inserted to mark
that spot for the post processor may influence page building and glue
settings.
Are there better constructs/soutions to do what I
want with ppower4?
Normally you would append \pause to the end of the section it
terminates. Apparently this is not what you can do in verbatim mode.
You may try to insert \pause into the beginning of the next section.
But that would in this case require that you explicitly give the
optional argument to the first \item.
Is there a way to insert the default argument like in
\begin{itemize}
\item[\pause\currentitemmarker] ...
...
\end{itemize}
If that is a reasonable alternative depends on you. And I only hope
that it works. I did not try.
\begin{Klause-Mode}
If no better ways exist, will such constructs/soutions
be provided in the near future?
\end{Klaus-Mode}
:-)
For the _near_ future I must say that I do not expect (m)any changes. :-(
My current normal duties eat my time more than completely. And I am
even behind with bug chasing and fixing. Unless we need that urgently
for our current lectures (which are of course prepared with PPower4) I
will not be able to spend time for development in this area. Sorry.
Klaus
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Re: [PPower4] can't process the example file (leveldem.tex)
Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi writes:
When I run pdflatex on that file, I get the
following log message:
[...]
! Undefined control sequence.
\Acrobatmenu ...\leavevmode \pdfannotlink
attr{\pdfBorderAttrs /H \@p...
l.60 \foilhead{Table builds}
You may need to install a recent version of hyperref.
Unfortunately you did not include any information about the pdftex and
hyperref version in use.
Klaus
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Re: [PPower4] Text in multi-level figures
Ellie Povey writes: I'm using the patched xfig and metapost to include some multi-level graphics in my document. They work well, except for a tendency to mix up the text layers. All graphic elements drawn in xfig appear exactly as they should, however text elements are moved around, have their places switched, or simply don't appear at all. Grouping the text elements together has some effect, but the effect is not consistent and does not always work. The effect, which you describe may be caused by a broken version of supp-pdf.tex (which is unfortunately part of e.g. teTeX distributions). The version number of supp-pdf is only in the file and not documented in the log file. But the log file shows, where to find this file. If the version is older than 2000.04.28, you should get a newer version. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: [PPower4] Text in multi-level figures
Herman Bruyninckx writes: The version number of supp-pdf is only in the file and not documented in the log file. But the log file shows, where to find this file. If the version is older than 2000.04.28, you should get a newer version. Where should we get it? (Because a search on CTAN gives a version of 1998...) I have hesitated long to put another copy of supp-pdf.tex online, which is most probably already outdated. But because people keep asking for it, I have extended the files section of our xfig page at http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/xfig/ to include a reference to a copy working for me. Enjoy, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: [PPower4] broken PDFThumb in Beta5 ?
Steffen Neumann writes:
I have the problem that pdfthumb in the beta5 Package
gives me the
/coda/vol/ai/bin/pdfthumb-beta t.ppower.pdf pdflatex.t.pdf
Exception in thread "main"
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
de/tu_darmstadt/sp/pdftools/ThumbGen
File size is (independent of browser ;-)
-rw-r--r-- 1 sneumann nogroup275840 Feb 8 12:08 pp4pb.jar
This seems to be ok. I can run ThumbGen from my copy.
My script is the unmodified Variant from 0.1 release:
#!/bin/sh
basedir=/coda//vol/ai/share/ppower
CLASSPATH=$basedir/pp4pb.jar /usr/lib/jdk1.2.2/bin/java
de.tu_darmstadt.sp.pdftools.ThumbGen "$@"
Any ideas ?
I get the same error message, if I misspell the path to the jar file
or the name of the jar file. Please double check.
Klaus
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Re: [PPower4] Installation ?
Pieter Thysebaert writes: 2. I can't seem to run the .jar ... What arguments are needed ? I get this : Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from /mnt/pie-win98/Apps/linux/tgz/pdftex/ppower4/pp4p.jar when starting the ppower4p script How do I fix this ? (it doesn't seem right) Calling the script without arguments should tell you File arguments are missing. PPower4 [-v|-n|-h|-V|--verbose=n|--nocompress|--help|--version] infile outfile If the JRE cannot find the Main-Class mainfest, it looks like you have a corrupted jar file. Please check the file size. You may also try to list the contents of the jar file with the command jar tvf /mnt/pie-win98/Apps/linux/tgz/pdftex/ppower4/pp4p.jar There should be no need to get a newer version of the JRE than 1.2.x just for running PPower4. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: [PPower4] pauselevel confusion
Laurenz Wiskott writes:
If I understand it correctly, it should produce the output
A B
A
A C
in this order. However, what I get is only
A B
A C
The second frame is missing. What did I do wrong?
This is not your fault, but a bug in PPower4.
The reason is that the second frame would not bring any new item and
therefore it is suppressed (erroneously).
There is a bugfix in the works.
If you need a workaround urgently, you can
replace the first chunk with
A\pauselevel{=1 :1,=2}\pause
which will ensure that PPower4 sees "something new" for the
second frame.
Thank you for your short example,
Klaus
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Re: [PPower4] Pause causes extra space
David Arnold writes:
I had my slides pretty well prepared, but adding in \pause's at after I was
finished adds extra space in places (sometimes after displays or
\begin{center}...\end{center} and other environments), causing of course,
material meant for one slide to move to the next, essentially jumbling the
presentation.
Is there a way to prevent this?
You should make sure, that \pause is _directly_ adjacent to some text
(without white space), either after or even before it.
This may mean that you have to put it _into_ a display or the last
item of an itemized list.
One case where this does not work is a sequence of verbatim
environments, when you want to put a \pause between them, because it
would not help to move \pause into one of these environments.
Updating would not help currently.
Klaus
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Re: [PPower4] Text background colour problem + bug report
Lyndon Hill writes:
I have noticed that when I use Acrobat version 4 on Windows NT to
view PPower4 generated PDF files the background of the text is not the
background I have set but another colour.
For example using
\definecolor{bgblue}{rgb}{0.0,0.0,1}
\foilhead{Introduction}
\vpagecolor{bgblue}
The background is blue except at the text where it is red.
I don't have this problem if I use acroread on Solaris but I am not sure
whether the machine I will use in my next presentation will be Linux or
Windows.
You mention Linux, but do not state whether the problem shows up also
with acroread on Linux.
If the Linux version also does not show the problem, I think it is not
a problem of PPower4 or pdftex, but of the version of acroread. Make
sure to use the latest acroread for Windows NT. I do not use NT, but
if I recall that correctly, there have been problems with early
versions for Windows which were overcome with a later release.
If the problem shows up also on Linux, please prepare a small complete
example which demonstrates the problem.
I'm sorry for not being more specific.
Klaus
P.S. I'll answer the rest of your mail in a separate message
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Re: [PPower4] New user question
Law Hiu Chung writes: It seems to me that the command pauselevel is very important to create various effects. I have tried to look for documentations on that command in the web site but cannot find it. \pauselevel is a command in the beta version. Unfortunately the incomplete manual dated 28 Jun 2000, which is on the beta page, will have the first anniversary real soon now without visible improvements. Anyway, this may have some help for you. But I do hope that I can come back to this project in August. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
Re: [PPower4] Equivalence of hypertarget and toptarget
Patrick Riley writes: Perhaps you could just keep a per page count of the number of \pause commands? This is easy to add in tex with a counter. It will not always do the right thing (see below), but it should get most cases correct. If someone wants an easy solution (s)he can proceed that way. But because it does not work in all circumstances reliably I hesitate to make that a supported feature. Furthermore one needs a hook to be able to reset the counter in all environments when a new page is begun. And one must be sure that the page is processed completely, when the intended navigation parts are to be created. You are in trouble, if you want to create the navigation elements first. The suggested solution may be easy for a special application, but can become cumbersome in general. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] using the mouse instead of Return key
Giovanni Ferro Luzzi writes: Is there a command that would let you use the mouse click instead of the return key to advance in the slide presentation? This is a matter of the viewer used. Acroread has an option hidden in File-Preferences...-Full Screen- for this. Enjoy, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] installation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I would like to use ppower4. I am using RedHat Linux system, but I do not have authority to install something as a super user. This may be hard, if a current version of Java is not installed. If possible, I would like to install just on my home directory and use it only myself. See the general documentation about the TeX directory structure and the search path philosophy, to learn about setting up user defined additions for an installed TeX base (I assume that there is a TeX package installed on your system). I do not have much experience to install, especially, Tex related package. PPower4 is not only TeX related, it is Java related as well. The system that I am using doe not contain foil.tex. Is it not possible to use slides instead of using foils? If not, please tell me what I need to do. PPower4 is not related to any specific package for creating slides/foils. If you are used to create your slides with LaTeX, you can continue to do so and just add some additional commands for the incremental build of pages. Foils/foiltex is just the package that we had selected before PPower4 was created. The only reason you might need the foiltex/foils style is to rerun the examples from the Web page. You can find foiltex.dtx on CTAN. Do not search for foils.sty! Enjoy, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] Problem compiling example file exm2.tex
Jacky Goyon writes:
But with exm2.tex , ppower4 gave me this error on exm2.pdf:
Exception in thread main java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String
at com.etymon.pj.PdfParser.parse(PdfParser.java:353)
at com.etymon.pj.PdfParser.getObjects(PdfParser.java:41)
at com.etymon.pj.Pdf.readFromFile(Pdf.java:789)
at com.etymon.pj.Pdf.init(Pdf.java:53)
at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.pp4.PP4Pages.work(PP4Pages.java:718)
at de.tu_darmstadt.sp.pp4.PPower4.main(PPower4.java:174)
and produce no output.
I cannot reproduce your problem with pp4.jar (0.8.4) and Java 1.3.1,
but would recommend to switch to the beta version nevertheless (don't
forget to get the new pause.sty, too).
by commenting off some lines I saw that what cause this error is hyperref
package
Even if I just let \usepackage{hyperref} and comment the lines using
hyperref commands
I have tried to change the position of this line but without any succes ...
I have a recent version of hyperref package
Which version?
I tried with version 2002/06/06 v6.72s and did not see the problem.
I would prefer to continue this discussion off-list, if at all necessary.
Klaus
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Re: [PPower4] Links active even if not visible
Steffen Neumann writes:
If you have a multilevel page, links set by \verb#\hyperref{}{}#
are active on all builds of the page. Therefore, you can accidentally
activate them, before even nowing where they'll point to.
This observation is correct.
It seems that links are some kind of ``page attribute'' and
are being propagated/copied to the individual builds.
Unfortunately this is correct, too.
It would be too error prone for the post processor to guess which
hyperlinks need to be available in which level of the page build,
because these are separated from the other contents of the page.
Is there any way around this ?
Not any, which I am aware of.
I hope that one can live with this kind of problem, if the creator of
the presentation is also the person running the presentation.
Sorry,
Klaus
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Re: [PPower4] Color not changing for itemized list
H.S.Rai writes: On pressing enter 2nd item comes in red, but Ist remain red, which should turned to grey. I am using RedHat 7.1 (PCQ), pPower4 0.84, kaffe 1.06-2/ jre 1.3.1 To make use of the advanced features you need to use the beta version of PPower4 (which will not run with kaffe 1.06-2). Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] UnsupportedEncodingException...
Alexandre Campos writes: I'm trying to install and use the ppower4. I cannot run the version0.8... That version is outdated. and now I manually update the ppower4 to version 0.9.2. This was a wise decision. Make sure to not only replace the jar file, but also the style files. If I recall your previous message correctly you installed an ibm-jdk-l118-linux-x86 to have Java on your system. But that is only Java 1.1.8, if I understand the naming of that version. You need to upgrade at least to Java 1.2.x for version 0.9.x of PPower4. I would recommend to install Java 1.3.x or 1.4.x if possible. Enjoy, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
[PPower4] version 0.9.3 uploaded
Hi everybody, apparently there was another problem with including images in highlight mode. This should be fixed in the new version 0.9.3 of PPower4, which I have uploaded recently. It is sufficient to replace pp4p.jar, if you experience problems including pdf images while highlighting is in effect. I am sorry for any inconveniences. Enjoy, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] print color jpg
Sharon Kuhlmann-Berenzon writes: I've included a jpg file with a picture in the presentation. The PDF file looks perfect, but when I print the overheads, the jpg pictures come out in black-and-white. How does the page with the jpg picture come out, if you print it from the pdf file created by pdflatex (i.e. before post processing with PPower4)? If the problem shows up already in this version, it is not a problem of PPower4. Then I would ask you to repeat the question in some other forum (pdftex? acroread? printer driver?). If the picture comes out properly from the pdftex created file, I would like to see a minimal example file in a personal message. But nevertheless I wonder, why you would want to print all the intermediate slides from your presentation, which you get after PPower4 processing. Regards, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
[PPower4] version 0.9.4 uploaded / dvipdfm user poll
Hi everybody, depending on the creation of pdf images and on the pdftex version used there were more problems reported with including pdf and jpg images together with highlighting just after my update last week. These have been fixed in 0.9.4. If you also experience problems with pdf and/or jpg images resulting in broken pdf output from PPower4 0.9.3, try an update replacing the pp4p.jar. Again, I am sorry for any inconveniences and for the recent instabilities in the 0.9 series. They are caused by the parts which were introduced to have full compatibility with output from dvipdfm. Given all that I consider withdrawing this compatibility feature if more problems of this kind show up. Therefore I would like know how many of you really use dvipdfm for creating the pdf presentations to be post processed by PPower4. Please send a short message as private mail to my mail address given below, if you use dvipdfm or if you know of such users, which are not on this mailing list. Please do not reply to the list for this. Thanks! I hope you enjoy using PPower4 nevertheless, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] pdfthumb problems: premature end of file
Thorsten Becker writes: I am using ppower4 version 0.9.4 under Redhat 8.0 with ghostscript version 7.05 and am having problems with the pdfthumb script. Even for a very simple PDF file (two pages without any figures, some background), I get the following error message: pdfthumb seminar.pdf tmp.pdf This is PDFThumb version 0.1. Reading document... Rendering thumbnail images at 9 dpi... Inserting images into document... Error: Premature end of file after reading 22503 bytes. This message must come from reading the GhostScript created image files. It sounds strange, because you write that you get this message also with a two page document, but could the file system which takes the temporary files be full? In any case the offending image file would stay in /tmp or /var/tmp with a name thumbm.n after the error. All such files which I created in a short test interrupting during inserting the images had a size of 22638 bytes though (from gs 6.53). Maybe this can help to spot the problem. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
[PPower4] Re: java.util.zip.ZipException
Ming Leung writes: When I run PPower4.bat I have the following error message: Exception in thread main java.util.zip.ZipException: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.init(ZipFile.java:110) at java.util.jar.JarFile.init(JarFile.java:115) at java.util.jar.JarFile.init(JarFile.java:57) What could be the problem? This looks like the jar file of PPower4 has been corrupted. Please compare the size of the downloaded file with the size given on the PPower4 home page. Klaus P.S. Please use a subject when sending messages to the list. Thanks. -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] strange java error
Jenny Bryan writes: Below I have included the Java complaint I get (same stuff if I remove -jar, except that first line goes away), the 'ls' output, and the ppower4 script. Please make sure, that your java command starts the newly installed java version. It look like you get an old version (or even kaffe) which is still at version 1.1.x. Try the command java -version to find out. If you get the wrong version uninstall the old one, update your PATH settings or edit the complete path to the new version into your ppower4 script. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] Number crossing cell boundaries.
H S Rai writes: I included a few tabular environment in my presentation. I found that cell data crosses the cell boundaries. How it can be avoided. This does not look like a PPower4 related problem, because it should already show up, before the post processor is used. I also found that in document class `slide', table and figure are not defined. Can we make it to ignore these environments (may be with the help of some package)? I don't know about the documentclass slide. Nor does my LaTeX seem to do so. Or I may not be using right document class. Can some one help me, by recommending about document class, which I should use so that matter typed in `report' class will result in presentation (slides) without commenting `table' and `figure' You may have a look at http://tex.loria.fr/english/classes.html where some classes are covered which can be used to prepare presentations. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] Endless loop in PPower4
David Cerezo writes: Anyone interested in taking a look at this problem? Yes, of course. But let's discuss that off-list. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] Ppower4 compilation error: com.etymon.pj.exception.PdfFormatException: Hexadecimal digit expected
David Janneau writes: I can't compile my pdf file because of the following message error: com.etymon.pj.exception.PdfFormatException: Hexadecimal digit expected Please upgrade to a newer version of PPower4, which is not based on the com.etymon.pj library. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] Problems using Pause and Higlights
Cleiton Diniz Silva writes:
\definecolor{dimmed}{gray}{0.4}
\pausecolors{red}{dimmed}{magenta}
{\color{blue}
\begin{itemize}
\item First. \pause
\item Second. \pause
\item Third.
\end{itemize}
\pause}
[...]
And the highlight is not working. The colors of the items First, Second and
Third remains Blue
It is working as specified.
If you want to change the material written in color red to be dimmed or
highlighted to magenta, you need to write that in color red in your
original text.~
Thus you better replace red by blue in \pausecolors or blue by red
in \color.
Enjoy,
Klaus
P.S. I am sorry for the long delay, but I was away from office for a while.
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Re: [PPower4] including jpgs or gifs into ppower4 presentations
Bodo von Billerbeck writes:
The scenario is the following:
- using xfig, I mix xfig objects (such as lines and boxes) and imported
objects (such as gifs or jpgs);
- I then use fig2dev -L mmp input.fig ouput.mp
- finally I use metapost: mpost output.mp
mpost (Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1)) complains that Picture objects are
not supported!
This is indeed a limitation of the mpost output. Unfortunately I am
not aware of a workaround for this.
Why do you need to modify/enhance the gifs and/or jpegs with xfig?
Can't you produce them completely in the first step?
PS: while checking previous posts I came accross the hint to use
\pageDuration{}
(\newcommand{\pageDuration}[1]{\hypersetup{pdfpageduration={#1}}})
Using an argument of 0.02 (ie \pageDuration{0.02}), 1 or 2 doesn't seem
to do anything. What is a good argument to use?
This does not have any relation to the question above, does it?
What are you trying to achieve?
Which environment do you use?
Klaus
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Re: [PPower4] including jpgs or gifs into ppower4 presentations
Bodo von Billerbeck writes: I found another feature of the xfig-fig2dev-mpost chain: only layers that have at least 1 empty layer in-between get separated out. For instance, if you have graphics on layers 5, 6 and 8, you will get two frames, one that includes the graphics from layers 5 and 6 and a second frame that includes graphics from layer 8. This is described in section 12 of the preliminary PPower4 manual, where it says: frames will be built from contiguous depth values. What are you trying to achieve? I vaguely thought of generating a fig that includes a stack of sheets of paper and would build up the stack automatically by adding one sheet at a time with an interval of a - say - 0.1 seconds. Purely for the visual effect that this would have in a presentation. You may need to select an advance time in Full Screen Preferences in your acroread. This holds at least for some Linux versions. Select a large value for Advance Every ... Seconds to make sure it will not advance automagically. Duration times seem to be not honored otherwise. btw: where can I send bug reports for ppower4? Send them to me by separate mail, not necessarily on the list. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] colour changes on pdf files included with includegraphics
Hilary Spencer writes: I then create the first pdf file with pdflatex the output looks fine I then run ppower4 and _some_ of the included graphics change colour From this description I cannot guess what is happening. Please produce an example and make it available, preferably not through the mailing list, because the attachment size is restricted. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
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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Re: [PPower4] pause.sty and vertical spacing
Marc van Dongen writes: If you put the pause at the start of a paragraph before which you want a pause then in my experience the vertical layout frequently (if not always) screws up Marc is right. In such cases the sequence \leavevmode\pause may help though, if you cannot put the \pause at the end of the previous section, e.g. because that was verbatim material. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] pauselevel for graphics
Shrirang K. Karandikar writes:
First of all, thanks for a great package. I've been looking for a
latex based powerpt. replacement, and this comes the closest.
Thanks.
I'd like to build a slide as follows (each step corresponding to
'pagedown'):
1. display layer x
2. display layers x-1 and x-2
3. display layers x-3 and remove layer x-1
4. display layer x-4
I cannot follow this description completely, but hopefully this does
not matter for the problem.
and so on. I put in the following for the user-defined pause macro:
\pausecount=1%
\def\mypause{%
\showthe\pausecount%just for debugging
\ifcase\pausecount%
\pauselevel{=1}\pause\or%displays LWGH1.0
\pauselevel{=2}\pause\or%displays LWGH1.1
\pauselevel{=3}\pause\or%displays LWGH1.2
\pauselevel{=4 :5}\or%this is the boundary between LWGH1.3 4!!
\pauselevel{=5}\pause\or%displays LWGH1.4 (with prev)
\pauselevel{=6}\pause\or%displays LWGH1.5
\pauselevel{=7}
\else%
\pause
\relax\fi% all other levels no assignment
\advance\pausecount by 1\relax}% and increment the counter
I do not understand, why you put the \pause almost into each case.
\pause will be needed as a delimiter for the different levels in any
case. But setting the pauselevel accordingly, you can get the effect
that things appear in the same level, if you need that.
Please note that the sequence
\pauselevel{=1}\pause\or%displays LWGH1.0
\pauselevel{=2}\pause\or%displays LWGH1.1
\pauselevel{=3}\pause\or%displays LWGH1.2
\pauselevel{=4 :5}\or%this is the boundary between LWGH1.3 4!!
is expected to be the same as
\pauselevel{=1}\pause\or%displays LWGH1.0
\pause\or%displays LWGH1.1
\pause\or%displays LWGH1.2
\pauselevel{=4 :5}\or%this is the boundary between LWGH1.3 4!!
because \pause increments automatically, if you didn't ask for another
setup. But this is not part of the problem, just a side note.
With this, LWGH1.3 and 4 are shown at the same time as expected,
but if I understand this correctly, LWGH1.3 should be removed after
level 5. Unfortunately this does not happen. About the only thing that
kindof works is:
\pauselevel{=4 :5}\or%this is the boundary between LWGH1.3 4!!
\pauselevel{=5 :6}\pause\or%displays LWGH1.4 (with prev)
, but then at layer 6 *both* LWGH1.3 and LWGH1.4 disappear.
That is because both \pauselevel commands were in the same section for
the post processor.
I think the intended setup could be
\ifcase\pausecount%
\pauselevel{=1}\or%displays LWGH1.0
\pauselevel{=2}\or%displays LWGH1.1
\pauselevel{=3}\or%displays LWGH1.2
\pauselevel{=4 :4}\or%this is the boundary between LWGH1.3 4!!
% this disappears immediately in the next step
\pauselevel{=4}\or%displays LWGH1.4 (appears with prev)
\pauselevel{=5}\or%displays LWGH1.5
\pauselevel{=6}
\else%
\relax\fi% all other levels no assignment
\pause%need a pause for each level --- moved pause here for all!!
or even shorter
\ifcase\pausecount%
\pauselevel{=1}\or%displays LWGH1.0
\or%displays LWGH1.1
\or%displays LWGH1.2
\pauselevel{=4 :4}\or%this is the boundary between LWGH1.3 4!!
% this disappears immediately in the next step
\pauselevel{=4}\or%displays LWGH1.4 (appears with prev)
\or%displays LWGH1.5
\else%
\relax\fi% all other levels no assignment
\pause%need a pause for each level --- moved pause here for all!!
You have to distinguish between the xfig parts and the pause steps.
If I understood correctly, you do have one part more (0 to 5) than you
have steps (1 to 5).
a less critical question: is it possible to display the current level? I
tried \showthe\pauselevel, but (la)tex didn't like that very much.
You may try to display \pausecount on the LaTeX level. But this
suggestion does not come from experience. It is just a guess. My time
constraints do not allow such experiments currently, sorry.
I hope this helps,
Klaus
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Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED]
FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt
Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] Help required
Sudarsan N.S Acharya writes: I used gnuplot (version 3.7 patchlevel 2) to generate eps figures and converted them to pdf using epstopdf (version 2.7), under debian (Linux version 2.4.22) . Basically my figures are 2-D graphs with the usual X and Y axes. When i use such a figure in a pdf presentation created by ppower4, the X and Y axes colours turns into white (from the usual black as generated by gnuplot). Surprisingly the colour of the actual graph that is plotted remains undisturbed. I created another copy of the same presentation without using the ppower4 package and everything works fine. This sounds strange, but may be due to the fact that you may have used the setup which uses white letters on colored background - which is not really a feature of PPower4, but a setup in some demo documents. This color setup may be active when you include the pdf figure and because pdf often does not specify a default color of its own in the beginning, because the default should be reasonable, the current color will survive until the next color change. Just select the proper color you want for your axes before including the figure and everything should be fine. If you change the current color in the other copy and then create a pdf from it the effect should be similar. Enjoy Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
[sorry!] Re: [PPower4] Hi! :-)
Stefan Krämer writes: Could you please tell us what this is? Sorry, someone managed to fake my sender address to send possibly infected material to the list. Unfortunately in this case the requirement that only list members can send messages did not help. Please delete the message. My apologies, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] I lost my footers!
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:39:37PM -0700, Todd Ruskell wrote: I recently upgraded from Debian stable to Debian testing. As a result I now have foiltex version 2.1.4a-1, tetex version 2.0.2, and pdfTeXk Version 3.14159-1.10b (Web2C 7.4.5). Now my footers no longer appear, even though they did with the earlier install. I upgraded ppower4 from an 0.8.x-SP-beta version to see if that helped, but I still have the problem with ppower4 version 0.9.4. I do not understand, whether you are missing the footers completely or whether they just do not appear at the first \pause. In the first case it does not look like a problem of PPower4 and should be discussed elsewhere. In the latter case it may help to add another pause at the end of a slide and switch to level 1 again. Unfortunately I do not know of any hooks for getting such an effect automagically. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dekanat, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Hochschulstraße 10, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] link to any build of a page
Hi!
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 05:31:50PM +0200, Klaus Langohr wrote:
Among others, I quite like the toplink feature of ppower4. However, in
some presentations, I jump back from the present page to a previous one
(with \hyperlink) and would then like to return to the build of the
present page, from which I jumped back. If I use \hyperlink, the whole
page is shown, if I use \toplink, only the first build appears.
Hence, my question: is there any possibility to jump to a particular
build of a page which is neither the first nor the last?
Currently there is no such feature.
If you jump back to just one page, you do not need a link to return.
You can use Acroread's history mechanism.
In my linux version this is bound to the CTRL-- key.
But if you want to introduce the link, you can use
\Acrobatmenu{GoBack}{linktext)
as well.
I hope this helps,
Klaus
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Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dekanat, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt
Hochschulstraße 10, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] unexpected character
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:58:11AM +0200, Rene Boeheim wrote: ppower4 does not like my pdf-s anymore: --- start log --- H:\teaching\EK\w04\lect1java -cp C:\Programme\Java\j2re1.4.2_01\lib\pp4pb.jar de.tu_darmstadt.sp.pp4.PPower4 lect1_slide.pdf lect1_slidep4.pdf This is PPower4 version 0.8.x-SP-beta5. Please update PPower4 to the most recent version 0.9.4 and try again. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dekanat, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Hochschulstraße 10, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] accents in the slide title
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 12:20:57PM -0300, Frederico Moraes Ferreira wrote:
I have experienced problems to put accents like \'a, \~a, etc in the slide
titles.
[...]
P.S.:my header goes,
\documentclass[20pt,landscape]{foils}
\usepackage{mdwslides}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
I do not have/use mdwslides and I cannot see/create a problem in using
accents in \foilhead.
Maybe the problem is related to mdwslides?
You didn't include the use of an accent in your example.
For me (although I may be biased) PPower4 seems to be not the culprit.
Klaus
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Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dekanat, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt
Hochschulstraße 10, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
Re: [PPower4] transition effects
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 05:04:59PM +0530, Purnendu Chakraborty wrote: I wanted to make slides compatible with acrobat 1.5 standard. The reason behind in doing so is to exploit new transition effects available. However, I found that although my initial pdf file (created by pdflatex with \pdfoptionpdfminorversion 5 ) is of type PDF-1.5, the post-processing afterwards makes it PDF-1.3. How to resolve this issue? From my source logs I read that this problem should have been resolved in April 2003. Please upgrade to the beta version prepared in late 2003, which is available from http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/beta/ If the problem persists in the latest version, I would like to get a short example (not to the list, please) for checking why the fix does not help. Best wishes for the upcoming holiday season to everybody and my apologies, that I have not been that responsive during the last year, and that this old beta version has not yet made it into the general distribution. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED]
