From: John Stalker <stalker@Math.Princeton.EDU>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] page as a presentation tool
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 00:27:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311050527.hA55R7nM028163@math.Princeton.EDU> (raw)
I am currently using the sequence
latex (prosper.cls) -> dvips -> pspdf -> xpdf
for both classroom lectures and conference talks. It works well
enough, though a few things annoy me. It would be nice to switch
the platform from FreeBSD to plan9, since I would like to edit in
sam and the UNIX sam is rather broken. I ran into a bit of a
problem, however. Page -w clips the pdf version of the slides.
I don't know if this is a bug in page or if the rest of my toolchain
is producing broken pdf and xpdf is just doing a better job of
coping. Page does a fine job on the PostScript version except that
everything is rotated 90 degrees. This is the classic example of the
page orientation problem, viz. http://allendowney.com/orientation/.
For various reasons the solution suggested there doesn't work for
me.
Is anyone using page for presentations and if so what are you using
to generate the slides? I am willing to consider troff-based solutions,
but since the conference talks are all on papers written in latex there
is some advantage to sticking to latex. In any case it is far from
clear to me how to teach troff about other aspect ratios without
just hacking the source.
--
John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
(609)258-6469
next reply other threads:[~2003-11-05 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-05 5:27 John Stalker [this message]
2003-11-05 0:08 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-05 7:45 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-11-05 21:55 ` jpc
2003-11-05 6:16 ` Scott Schwartz
2003-11-05 16:25 ` John Stalker
2003-11-05 10:28 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-05 21:36 ` John Stalker
2003-11-05 21:44 ` Rob Pike
2003-11-06 1:29 ` John Stalker
2003-11-07 7:03 ` okamoto
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