Re: About Acrobat Reader

nformation 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 -- Klaus Guntermann

Re: pdf transitions between pages

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Re: Different pdfslide.sty

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 ?

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

Re: Using PPower4 on Mac

Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt

background.sty updated in pp4sty.zip

. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt

Re: Printing presentations?

, 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 -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: slideframe ?

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

Re: viewing presentations in linux

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

Re: problem with thumbnails

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

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archive of mailing list

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

adventurous?

DF 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 -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL P

Re: starting in the middle of a page

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

Re: building graphics incrementally

n 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 -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU

Re: pdfpagetransition

tails. BTW: the file quoted is (in the unmodified form) available at the Ppower4 site. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt

Re: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

have used \pause in your document up to page 5 -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt

Re: rgb color definition

-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

Re: mpmulti.sty

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Re: tetex version?

se 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

Update of pp4link.sty for the beta version 2

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 -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG

Re: FullScreen and FitPage. How to do it?

claimer: I have not tried this, because I never had noticed the problem you descibed, but hope that it can help. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt

Re: pp4 on the Mac

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

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

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

f 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 -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelm

Re: [PPower4] xfig - metapost - ppower4

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

Re: [PPower4] Automatic advancing in ppower4

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

are of course prepared with PPower4) I will not be able to spend time for development in this area. Sorry. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt

Re: [PPower4] can't process the example file (leveldem.tex)

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 -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7

Re: [PPower4] Text in multi-level figures

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

Re: [PPower4] Text in multi-level figures

/ 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 ?

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 -- Klaus Guntermann

Re: [PPower4] Installation ?

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

Re: [PPower4] pauselevel confusion

g new" for the second frame. Thank you for your short example, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt

Re: [PPower4] Pause causes extra space

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 -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG

Re: [PPower4] Text background colour problem + bug report

in a separate message -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt

Re: [PPower4] New user question

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

Re: [PPower4] Equivalence of hypertarget and toptarget

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

Re: [PPower4] using the mouse instead of Return key

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Re: [PPower4] installation

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

Re: [PPower4] Problem compiling example file exm2.tex

. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany

Re: [PPower4] Links active even if not visible

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 -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG

Re: [PPower4] Color not changing for itemized list

with kaffe 1.06-2). Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany

Re: [PPower4] UnsupportedEncodingException...

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

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

, 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

[PPower4] version 0.9.4 uploaded / dvipdfm user poll

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

Re: [PPower4] pdfthumb problems: premature end of file

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

[PPower4] Re: java.util.zip.ZipException

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

(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

Re: [PPower4] Number crossing cell boundaries.

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

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

Re: [PPower4] Problems using Pause and Higlights

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. -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany

Re: [PPower4] including jpgs or gifs into ppower4 presentations

to the question above, does it? What are you trying to achieve? Which environment do you use? Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany

Re: [PPower4] including jpgs or gifs into ppower4 presentations

. 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

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

for not being able to offer a better solution. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany

Re: [PPower4] pause.sty and vertical spacing

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

\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 -- Klaus

Re: [PPower4] Help required

. 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! :-)

apologies, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany

Re: [PPower4] I lost my footers!

-- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dekanat, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Hochschulstraße 10, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany

Re: [PPower4] link to any build of a page

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Re: [PPower4] unexpected character

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

/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 -- Klaus Guntermann

Re: [PPower4] transition effects

, 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]