Re: Problem with the size of objects in slides

Dear Hasnain,

prosper is built on top of the seminar class. Seminar uses a scale 
factor for the slides that affects several lengths commonly used. A 
solution to this problem, however, is provided by the very seminar 
class. Seminar defines two very useful lenghts, \semcm and \semin. The 
first one (\semcm) is defined to be exactly 1 centimetre and the other 
one (\semin) is exactly 1 inch and both are unaffected by the scale 
factor. Therefore, try to change your instances of the units cm or in by 
the seminar equivalents \semcm and \semin.

Regards,
Roberto

Hasnain Rangwalla wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I'm quite new to Prosper, although I've used LaTex before.  I have a 
> problem with a Prosper presentation which, I think, is because I'm 
> overlooking something obvious.  I'm using MikTeX under WinXP.  I have 
> tried creating my presentation with and without the "pdf" option.
> 
> The problem:  The size of my figures (created in xfig and IgorPro and 
> exported as eps) are all much larger than their true size; also, the 
> widths of minipages and parboxes when directly specified as some number 
> of cm, inches, or pts, come out much larger than what I specify.  I have 
> to scale down my figures with the scale=x option in \includegraphics 
> (graphicx.sty), and I have to give small sizes for my minipages and 
> parboxes.  So, for example, if I want a minipage of width 7 cm, I would 
> have to specify something like 3 to 4 cm--a tedious exercise of 
> trial-and-error.  \textwidth does seem to work ok, and specifying widths 
> in terms of this length seems to produce correct results.
> 
> I don't have this problem with other LaTeX documentclass' like article 
> and revtex4.
> 
> This problem does not stop me from using Proper, but it kills some of 
> the fun for sure.  Please help.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hasnain
> 
> 
> 
> 
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