From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 13 04:29:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811CF16A417 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:29:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp-gs.math.arizona.edu (math051.cs.arizona.edu [150.135.82.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B91913C447 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:29:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp-gs.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JDuTm-0004ye-Ji for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:29:51 -0700 Received: from 71-220-164-236.tcsn.qwest.net ([71.220.164.236] helo=oko.bagdala.net) by smtp-gs.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JDuTm-0004yW-Cy for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:29:50 -0700 Message-ID: <47893259.7080108@math.arizona.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:34:17 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070818) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACL-Warn: The HELO/EHLO greeting oko.bagdala.net is invalid X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -0.3 (/) Cc: Subject: ps2pdf problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:29:59 -0000 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.