How to make an A4 presentation with Beamer?

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Steve,

you don't need to do anything, because beamer does not produce paper. I
collaborate a lot with a colleague in the US and do need to do anything
for the presentations. For the papers he changes the LyX to Letter if he
wants to print and I to A4 if I want to print.


If you like, you can experiment with stuff like

	aspectratio=1610

in the

	Documents -> Settings... -> Document Class -> Custom

which you need to read up on (aspect ration) in the (LaTeX)
Beamer Manual.

For your particular issue I would also search for "handout"
in the (LaTeX) Beamer Manual.


The MWE is a TeX document, by the way, not a LyX document.

greetings, el

On 2020-12-13 13:52 , Steve Litt wrote:
 > 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.
 >
[...]

On 2020-12-13 14:42 , Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:54:37 +0300
> Baris Erkus <bariserkus at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 13-Dec-20 2:52 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>>> 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
>>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
>>
>> Could you please send a MWE, so that we can have a look at it?
>>
> 
> 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
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
> 
>