Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:34:17 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ps2pdf problem Message-ID: <47893259.7080108@math.arizona.edu>
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Dear All, I was wondering if you could give me little help with Ghostscript. I am using powerdot package to create presentation slides. For those unfamiliar with the package one needs to go through .tex --> .dvi --> .ps --> .pdf for graphics to display properly (pdflatex is not an option nor it is dvipdfm) Latex (actually TeXLive) and dvips do their job properly and I am getting beautiful landscape slides (.ps). However, when I pass the .ps file through the ghostcript with ps2pdf slides gets trimmed. Is there some more advanced option for ps2pdfwr which will enable me to conserve the proper width of slides? Giving the presentation in .ps format is not an option since interactive links on slides are active only if the slides are in .pdf format. GSview (Ghostscript) for Windows has capability to act as ps2pdf filter and does the job correctly but I am stamped by the fact that GV nor gs nor ghostview have similar capabilities. I read carefully man pages for ps2pdf and ps2pdfwr but I am not getting anywhere. I am sure that I am not the only one who is using LaTeX for presentations (with the landscape layout). What are other people experiences with the slides and the Ghostscript. Best, Predrag P. S. I am aware of Beamer, Prosper, and ppower4. None of these classes comes even close to the perfect layout, capability, and simplicity of the Powerdot class so I really want to resolve the problem.
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