Re: Wipe direction in Acrobat

Hi Hendri ... Great, thanks.  That works, and works with Acrobat 5 as well.

I have taken note of your cautionary comments as well!

Thanks also for your constantly useful comments to this discussion list!
Theo Stewart

Hendri Adriaens wrote:

>Theo,
>
>http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/primer.pdf
>suggests us to try the following:
>-----------------------------------------------------
>\documentclass[pdf]{prosper}
>\renewcommand{\PDFtransition}[1]{%
>  \hypersetup{pdfpagetransition={#1}}%
>}
>\DefaultTransition{Wipe /Di 0}
>\begin{document}
>\overlays{3}{
>\begin{slide}{test}
>\begin{itemstep}
>\item Some long text to find out the\par direction of the transition.
>\item Some long text to find out the\par direction of the transition.
>\item Some long text to find out the\par direction of the transition.
>\end{itemstep}
>\end{slide}
>}
>\end{document}
>-----------------------------------------------------
>
>The /Di parameter gives the direction of the transition (in multiples of
>90):
>0   = left to right
>90  = bottom to top
>180 = right to left
>270 = top to bottom
>in Acrobat 6. I don't know how Acrobat 5 will interpret this though.
>
>Be careful with specifying undefined transitions. GhostScript will just
>write these commands to the pdf, but Acrobat will then not be able to
>interpret them and might crash or just stop reading the file and display
>partial content only. The best strategy: check the pdfmark reference
>before setting a custom transition.
>
>Best regards,
>-Hendri.
>PS: the redefinition of \PDFtransition of prosper is necessary to make
>it ignore undefined custom transitions. Handle with care!
>
>
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