Re: Problem with beamer

Am Tue, 1 Oct 2013 19:21:20 -0400 (EDT) schrieb Michael Barr:

> I was told that processing a file with pdflatex gives the same result as 
> processing it with latex, with \pdfoutput1 in the preamble.  They both 
> load with "pdftex".  The following file:
> 
> \documentclass{beamer}
> \pdfoutput1
> \title{testfile}
> \author{Michael Barr}
> \begin{document}
> \titlepage
> \end{document}
> 
> gives quite a different result when processed with latex and pdflatex. 
> The latter gives the expected out, while the former produces a white page 
> with a large black square in the upper left quadrant.  When \pdfoutput is 
> changed to 0, they give the same dvi file.  This is Miktex 2.8, by the 
> way.
> 

You are changing \pdfoutput after beamer has loaded tons of files --
including driver files for dvips which beamer has loaded after
checking that the current value of \pdfoutput is 0. 


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 


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