Re: Another newbie

Am Montag, 5. Januar 2004 03:14 schrieb James Frye:
> First off, is there a good manual (besides the distribution
> one) or howto somewhere that I've missed?

I found the prosper guide written by ki-joo kim very useful - if you don't 
have that guide, it can be found under:

http://www.geocities.com/kijoo2000

as pdf and tex-source together with the style-file. Strongly recommended! 

> 1) What units does Prosper use, and how big is the drawing area?

Prosper uses the SI unit cm, but this can be changed with the psset-command. 
You can visualize the drawing area by using the default-Prosper-style (that 
is, use in your documentclass-declaration the option "default"). The default 
style indicates the drawing area by black 90 degree angles, the width is 
about 12 cm, the height  about 7.5 cm. Try the following file to see:

\documentclass[pdf,colorBG,slideColor,default]{prosper}
\title{Area}
\author{Tobias Hilbricht}
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}{Area}
\centering
\begin{pspicture}(0,0)(12,7.5)
\psgrid
\end{pspicture}
\end{slide}
\end{document}

> 2) I have a number of images (photos) to show, one image per slide.  They
> have different aspect ratios. 

Try a file with something like

...
\begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.75\textwidth]{your-image.eps} % adapt textwidth - I 
dont know the size of your images!
\end{minipage}                           %   it is important
\hfill                                             %  to have no empty lines 
\begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth} %  between minipages
Here
is
your
text
\end{minipage}
...
>
> 3) When I use vector EPS figures like graphs or drawings with a colored
> background style, the graphic is displayed on top of the background

You mean if you have a drawing with white background you want to get rid of 
the white background on a slide style with blue background or vice versa, for 
example? The ways I can think of are changing the background color of the 
slide style or change the background of the drawing. The latter either with 
the application of origin or with an image manipulation program such as Gimp 
or Photoshop.

Yours sincerely

Tobias Hilbricht



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