[Fwd: MikTex, Prosper and out of page printing.]

lucio writes:
 > Hello all,
 > 
 > Im a latex newbie, so please pardon the erros or misconceptions in my 
 > presentation.

Since nobody answered that, I'll do it, although I don't know much about
MikTeX.

 > 
 > With that out of the way, i need some help. Im trying to write a 
 > presentation using prosper. I am running win2k and miktex. Pretty recent 
 > installations, both of them.
 > 
 > I try to typeset some of the examples, like prosper-tour.tex. Im just 
 > doing "latex prosper-tour.tex", with no options. (dont yet know what any 
 > of the latex options are). Than, when i try to 
 > view the page with "TrueTex DVI Previewer", the slides are outside the 
 > printing area and nothing looks ok.

As far as I know, no dvi viewer can display all the fancy stuff that
prosper relies on to create it's output.

 > 
 > Same thing if i just do pdflatex: i just get white pages with no text. 
 > (not to mention wrong paper orientation).

It is a well known "feature" that prosper will not work with pdflatex, nor
distiller for that matter.  You need to go the same way as you did with
seminar (see below).

 > 
 > So, what should i do? Whats going wrong?
 > 
 > I got seminar to work fine, but i would like to use the features of 
 > prosper. But when using seminar i have to do latex->dvips->ps2pdf, 
 > because i need to use the "-t landscape" option of dvips. Is there any 
 > way to give the same options  to pdflatex?

No, however, you want to do something like:

latex yourfile.tex
dvips -Ppdf -z -G0 yourfile.dvi
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 yourfile.ps

Hope this helps.

Fred



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