Recent changes to support-requests

miktex non-package install (Vista)

2010-03-03T00:53:47Z

My MiKTeX package manager isn't talking to the FTP (Retrieval error) or HTTP (404 error) so I'm installing MiKTeX from .tar.gz files, on Vista.

I unzipped the files and saved the beamer (and pgf and xcolor) folder to C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex . These files are all today's versions from sourceforge.net. I have verified that the exact location of beamerbasercs.sty is in fact C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\beamer\base\ .

... but nothing comes out. I have already tried texhash and mktexlsr. Here's my log. Thanks!

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.8-alpha-20080323 (MiKTeX 2.7) (preloaded format=latex 2008.5.4) 2 MAR 2010 18:44
entering extended mode
**BeamerTour.tex
(BeamerTour.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8j> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman, ngerman, french, loaded.
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\beamer\base\beamer.cls"

! LaTeX Error: File `beamerbasercs.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name:
! Emergency stop.
<read *>

l.11 \def
\beamer@version{3.07}

End of file on the terminal!

Theme creation: Title page footline/header

2009-03-28T10:51:37Z

Hi,

I'm about to create a new beamer theme and would like have the footline and headline on the title page appear differently from the rest of the slides.

Is there any option to `\defbeamertemplate*{title page}` or any other environment that can handle that?

Cheers,
Nico

beamer_guide.pdf

2008-08-02T07:46:06Z

Hi:

I'm a LaTeX user from around a year, and since i started using LaTeX to write a physic document, i'm usingit for everything that i have to do. Searching the Web i found a PDF file (beamer_guide.pdf) made by Ki-Joo Kim from November 4, 2004, the presentation it's very intresting and expose a lot of feautures about the beamer class, i want to know if some one have the source of this presentation, to use, i search for this in Google but i can't find anything, any help or comment would be appreciated.

Thanks !

Source for example PDFs on website not included in package

2008-07-28T09:51:39Z

There's an example PDF available from http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/, called beamerexample1.pdf which is said to be included in the distribution, but it's not. I could neither find beamerexample1.tex nor any other .tex file that has the same content.

As the website says it's an example using many features so it would be helpful to include it. If that's not possible, I suggest removing the note from the site to prevent unsuccessful searches.

Let me know if I can help with any of that.

Thanks and cheers,
Felix

bug with suse 10.3

2008-01-09T19:06:18Z

Hi,

our institute has switched to Latex-Beamer to create nice looking talks for conferences etc. and finally get rid of MSOffice. Nice work Till!
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Since the recently installed update to Suse 10.3 (64bit) our presentations, working perfectly before, are not compiled correctly any more.

The Bug is that text is shaded gray (like with overlays) or colored, that isn't supposed to be shaded. or colored at all. Actually there aren't any \color or \only or similar commands used at all on that complete frame. The color seems to have somehting to do with the recently used backround color.

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A Small Example:
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\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\setbeamercolor*{Color1}{bg=red,fg=green}
\setbeamercolor*{Color2}{bg=blue,fg=yellow}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{frame using beamerboxesrounded}
normal text that is not blue.
\begin{beamerboxesrounded}[upper=Color1,lower=Color2]
{Title of the block}
the blocks content.
\end{beamerboxesrounded}
blue text after box.
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{next frame}
some text that is blue and shouldn't be...\\ even though on the next frame
\end{frame}
\end{document}
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(I've attached the resulting pdf...)
The latex command delivers the following error:
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/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/beamer.cls:0: Option `pdfpagelabels' is turned off(hyperref) because \thepage is undefined.
[LaTeX] 0 Fehler, 1 Warnung, 0 BadBoxes
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It doesn't seem to be the installed version of TexLive, since the same version using a Mac or Ubuntu (both 32bit) is working fine. Neither do dvips nor ps2pdf have to do with the problem. (and before someone asks: yes, we need ps since we're using the package psfraf rather often..., but that doesn't matter anyway: the problem also occurs using pdflatex...)

The only difference we could uncover between the different installations, except for the bit-number is that typing latex on command line delivers

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)

instead of

This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)

using one of the working systems. But we don't have a clue, if that or the 64bit System or something else is the reason for our problems. The talks were compiled fine using Suse 10.0-10.2 and teTex as long as you had updated packages.

Does anybody have an idea, what the reason could be or how to solve it? The ongoing search (we're desperate to fix the problem asap) for an explanation hasn't helped much 'til now. That's the reason I'm bothering you now!

Thanks in advance for any help.

Christian

content

2006-12-14T09:20:55Z

How to divide the content into several slides?

conflict with pstricks, pst-tree, pst-node

2006-10-31T20:23:18Z

There seems to be a conflict of breamer
\mode<presentation> with the pstricks (or pst-tree or
pst-node) package. When they are invoked in the same
file, it results in the following error message:

!Undefined control sequence.
<recent read> \@@drv

Any help?

beamer in OzTeX

2006-08-18T13:23:15Z

Hi,

I am trying to install beamer on OzTeX 5.2. running on
MacOS 10.2.8. I downloaded beamer, pgf and xcolour
from the site, but I cannot get OzTex to see any of
the beamer class or sty files. Namely, I tried TeXing
some of the supplied examples and I get the message
either that the beamer.cls is not seen or some of the
.sty files are not seen. I tried moving the beamer
directory to various places, such as mytex/inputs within
the OzTeX 5.2. directory, whilst adjusting the
Local file to reflect these changes.
Nothing works! Please advise if you can.
Many thanks, Mirna.

How to make an image full slidewidth in the footline

2006-08-11T04:02:07Z

Hi,

I am trying to insert a full-width image into the
footline of my presentation, so that it is (a) at the
very bottom (b) doesn't get overwritten as \logo can
(c) can later be incorporated into a theme.

My image always appears in from the left hand side. The
distance varies a bit with different themes.

An example:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{default}
% Turn off header section
\setbeamertemplate{headline}[default]
% Put graphics in footline
\setbeamertemplate{footline}[text
line]{\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]{footer.png}}
% Turn off navigation symbols
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\title{TITLE}
\author{Me}
\date{August 29, 2006}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\titlepage
\end{frame}
\end{document}

Suggestions appreciated. Thanks.
Ron Crump

PS My apologies for posting this in the Help forum
and here - the forum does not appear to be very active.

"block" environments not shown with Lyx

2006-05-22T08:37:38Z

Dear users,

I've reinstalled my laptop with Ubuntu Breezy and the
new Lyx 1.4.1. Unfortunately, when using latex-beamer,
Lyx generates pdfs without the "block" environments (no
background colors, only the text), and without itemize
bullets. I've hesitate to submit a bug request, as I'm
not sure it is really a beamer problem. Can you help me
with this? Thank you!