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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13-Dec-20 3:42 PM, Steve Litt wrote:<br>
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Baris Erkus <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bariserkus@hotmail.com"><bariserkus@hotmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 13-Dec-20 2:52 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi all,
I live in the US, so all my computer's defaults are set to the US,
including paper size. I have a customer in Europe for whom I need to
make a presentation, using Beamer (alone, not with LyX), printable
on A4 paper.
I've tried various combinations and variants of the following :
\usepackage{geometry}
\special{papersize 29.7cm, 21cm}
\hsize 29.7cm
\vsize 21.0cm
\usepackage[a4paper, total={29.5cm, 20.8cm}]{geometry}
\geometry{letterpaper, landscape, total={11.5in, 8in}}
Some forced the latex program to abort with error, some caused only
a tiny rendering of the slide on a big A4 paper, some caused the
printing to be portrait, when I could print landscape it printed
upside down, what a mess.
Does anyone have a way to use Beamer (not LyX/Beamer) to create a
PDF that can print correctly on a European printer?
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt
Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive">http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive</a>
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Could you please send a MWE, so that we can have a look at it?
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That's a good idea, Baris, and I already sent the MWE files to you. In
case anyone else wants to take a crack at it, I'm attaching four MWE
files:
mwe.beamer is the MWE source
mwe.pdf is my attempt at A4. It's upside down, and the print is way
smaller than it's supposed to be.
kk is the shellscript that compiles mwe.beamer into mwe.pdf.
All 3 files go in a single directory, and assuming you have the same
texlive packages I have, it should compile to the same result mine did.
What I want is a PDF, printable on A4, that has the right sized print
and is right side up instead of upside down.
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt
Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive">http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive</a>
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<p>AFAIK, Beamer class does not provide slides with A4 or Letter
dimensions. The default size of slides are smaller than Letter
sized papers, but when you open them for presentation using a PDF
viewer, the PDF viewer shows the slides using the whole
screen/projector area so you do not see any issue with the size.
When you print them, the printer enlarges it to fit to the page
margin, so probably you will not have an issue with that either.
So the problem is not whether you use Letter-sized or A4-sized
paper. It is simply Beamer does not provide slides with those
dimensions. This is what I know, but forums such as Stack Exchange
will have more correct information on this.<br>
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<p>What I do generally is I leave the PDF file as it is, and it is
generally good enough to see on the screen as PDF viewers will
enlarge it as necessary. When printing, you can tell the PDF
viewer to fit to the margins of an A4 or A3 or Letter size paper.<br>
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<p>Alternatively, you can print the slides to A4 size with a PDF
tool such as PDF X-change.</p>
<p>This is not a LyX- problem so, I am not sure if the audience of
this list has expertise on this matter. <br>
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