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

Fred Labrosse wrote:

>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.
>  
>
Its ok, it didnt turn out to be a miktek specific problem!

> > 
> > 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.
>  
>
That happens to be true...

> > 
> > 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).
>  
>
Hey, thats also true!

> > 
> > 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.
>  
>
It did work, thanks a lot for you help.

Lucio




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