Thank you very much for all your responses for helping me solve this problem that has been bugging me since 2009!
As Herbert Voss just pointed out, the 'nopsheader' was the culprit. Otherwise I can keep everything else in the \documentclass. Thank you Fabrice for arriving at the same conclusion. Have no idea why I kept 'nopsheader': It just stayed there since I first learned powerdot in 2008 and as it was working fine with TL 2008, I never thought of removing it later.
Yes it is now working well also with TL 2011 (I have just updated everything from CTAN yesterday).
I use WinEdt and there is no 'variable page size' but it is now just a matter of playing with the options in WinEdt until I get the desired page layout.
And my best wishes to you all for a great new year 2012. Kind regards, Yogeshwarsing On 12/30/2011 9:50 AM, Patrice MÉGRET wrote:
Dear Y.Calleecharan, Your sample file compiles perfectly if I remove 'nopsheader' in the options of \documentclass. I used TexLive 2010 + Ghostview 4.9 (GS 9.04 and pdfwrite) to convert into pdf. Don't forget to check 'Variable Page Size' to get the right size in the pdf (otherwise you get A4 pages on which your screen pages are displayed ). Please find enclosed the result and below the listfiles I used: *File List* powerdot.cls 2011/09/15 v1.4h powerdot presentation class (HA,CE) xkeyval.sty 2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA) xkeyval.tex 2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA) article.cls 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option) size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option) geometry.sty 2010/07/13 v5.5 Page Geometry ifpdf.sty 2010/01/28 v2.1 Provides the ifpdf switch (HO) ifvtex.sty 2010/03/01 v1.5 Switches for detecting VTeX and its modes (HO) hyperref.sty 2010/09/11 v6.81m Hypertext links for LaTeX ltxcmds.sty 2010/04/26 v1.7 LaTeX kernel commands for general use (HO) kvsetkeys.sty 2010/03/01 v1.9 Key value parser (HO) infwarerr.sty 2010/04/08 v1.3 Providing info/warning/message (HO) etexcmds.sty 2010/01/28 v1.3 Prefix for e-TeX command names (HO) pdfescape.sty 2010/03/01 v1.9 Provides hex, PDF name and string conversions (HO) pdftexcmds.sty 2010/04/01 v0.9 Utility functions of pdfTeX for LuaTeX (HO) ifluatex.sty 2010/03/01 v1.3 Provides the ifluatex switch (HO) ifxetex.sty 2010/09/12 v0.6 Provides ifxetex conditional hycolor.sty 2009/12/12 v1.6 Color options of hyperref/bookmark (HO) xcolor-patch.sty 2009/12/12 xcolor patch letltxmacro.sty 2008/06/24 v1.3 Let assignment for LaTeX macros (HO) pd1enc.def 2010/09/11 v6.81m Hyperref: PDFDocEncoding definition (HO) intcalc.sty 2007/09/27 v1.1 Expandable integer calculations (HO) hyperref.cfg 2002/06/06 v1.2 hyperref configuration of TeXLive kvoptions.sty 2010/02/22 v3.7 Keyval support for LaTeX options (HO) url.sty 2006/04/12 ver 3.3 Verb mode for urls, etc. bitset.sty 2007/09/28 v1.0 Data type bit set (HO) bigintcalc.sty 2007/11/11 v1.1 Expandable big integer calculations (HO) atbegshi.sty 2010/03/25 v1.12 At begin shipout hook (HO) hdvips.def 2010/09/11 v6.81m Hyperref driver for dvips pdfmark.def 2010/09/11 v6.81m Hyperref definitions for pdfmark specials rerunfilecheck.sty 2010/03/16 v1.6 Rerun checks for auxiliary files (HO) atveryend.sty 2010/03/24 v1.5 Hooks at very end of document (HO) uniquecounter.sty 2009/12/18 v1.1 Provides unlimited unique counter (HO) graphicx.sty 1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR) graphics.sty 2009/02/05 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR) trig.sty 1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC) graphics.cfg 2010/04/23 v1.9 graphics configuration of TeX Live dvips.def 1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR) pstricks.sty 2011/04/23 v0.50 LaTeX wrapper for `PSTricks' (RN,HV) pstricks.tex 2011/04/23 v2.20 `PSTricks' (tvz,hv) pst-xkey.tex 2005/11/25 v1.6 PSTricks specialization of xkeyval (HA) pst-fp.tex 2011/04/23 v2.20 `PST-fp' (hv) xcolor.sty 2007/01/21 v2.11 LaTeX color extensions (UK) color.cfg 2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive enumitem.sty 2011/09/28 v3.5.2 Customized lists verbatim.sty 2003/08/22 v1.5q LaTeX2e package for verbatim enhancements powerdot-aggie.sty 2005/12/10 v1.3 aggie style (JS,HA) times.sty 2005/04/12 PSNFSS-v9.2a (SPQR) pifont.sty 2005/04/12 PSNFSS-v9.2a Pi font support (SPQR) upzd.fd 2001/06/04 font definitions for U/pzd. upsy.fd 2001/06/04 font definitions for U/psy. pst-grad.sty 2004/07/15 package wrapper for pst-grad.tex (hv) pst-grad.tex 2006/11/27 1.06 `pst-grad' (tvz) amssymb.sty 2009/06/22 v3.00 amsfonts.sty 2009/06/22 v3.00 Basic AMSFonts support amsmath.sty 2000/07/18 v2.13 AMS math features amstext.sty 2000/06/29 v2.01 amsgen.sty 1999/11/30 v2.0 amsbsy.sty 1999/11/29 v1.2d amsopn.sty 1999/12/14 v2.01 operator names ot1phv.fd 2001/06/04 scalable font definitions for OT1/phv. nameref.sty 2010/04/30 v2.40 Cross-referencing by name of section refcount.sty 2008/08/11 v3.1 Data extraction from references (HO) gettitlestring.sty 2009/12/18 v1.3 Cleanup title references (HO) "Document-TeX 1".bm "Document-TeX 1".bm "Document-TeX 1".toc umsa.fd 2009/06/22 v3.00 AMS symbols A umsb.fd 2009/06/22 v3.00 AMS symbols B *********** Best regards and happy new year. Patrice __________________________________________________________ -----Message d'origine----- De : powerdot-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:powerdot-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Yogeshwarsing Calleecharan Envoyé : vendredi 30 décembre 2011 07:24 À : powerdot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc : caridade@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; yogcal@xxxxxx Objet : [powerdot] Re: Minimal file (problems with getting correct layouts with TexLive) Here is a minimal file. The file defense.tex can also be downloaded from http://petitlien.fr/dvi (The defense.dvi at the above link was made from the full file and not from this minimal tex file) \documentclass[size=10pt,mode=present,paper=screen,letterpaper,landscape,english,nopsheader,style=aggie,display=slides]{powerdot} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \begin{slide}[toc=,bm=]{Overview} \tableofcontents[content=sections] \end{slide} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \section{Background} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{slide}{Motivation} \begin{itemize} \pause \item These eccentricities and the phenomenon of \textcolor{red}{unbalanced magnetic pull} (UMP) mutually affect each other\\[3.7mm] \pause \item The present work has as aims to give insights on the dynamics' behaviours of the UMP, a phenomenon known for over 100 years \end{itemize} \end{slide} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{slide}[toc=The UMP]{More about the unbalanced magnetic pull$\ldots$} \onslide*{1}{ \begin{itemize} \item The UMP has two components: A \textcolor{red}{radial} component and a \textcolor{red}{tangential} one\\[3.7mm] \end{itemize} } \onslide*{2}{ \begin{itemize} \item The UMP has two components: A \textcolor{red}{radial} component and a \textcolor{red}{tangential} one\\[3.7mm] \end{itemize} } \end{slide} \end{document} The above works fine with TeXLive 2008 when compiling to DVI, PS and PDF. But it doesn't work with TexLive 2011 (updated as of Dec 29, 2011). I have never been able to make it work with TeXLive 2010 also. Would anyone kindly show me how to process this tex file to get the right PS and right PDF files. I've tried virtually all commands that I could on the command line with TexLive 2011/2010 but was never successful. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Y.Calleecharan On 12/29/2011 4:35 PM, Pedro Jorge Caridade wrote:Dear Calleecharan Could you try to send just a minimal tex file? I have tried to make the ps but got some errors (figures, etc). If it is what I recall, the problem is in config.ps file. Best Pedro On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Yogeshwarsing Calleecharan <yogeshwarsing.calleecharan@xxxxxx> wrote:Hello, I have been using powerdot for some years (since 2008) with TexLive on Windows XP and with the recent versions of TeXLive I cannot simply produce a PS or PDF output with the correct layout in powerdot. So I keep my TeXLive 2008 to create my presentations in powerdot. Here is a link to a DVI file (defense.dvi) that I produced in powerdot.: http://petitlien.fr/dvi (The link will expand to a Guest account in GMX). Can someone test with commands at the command prompt (dvips and ps2pdf) if one can produce correct PS and PDF files? I have tried but without any success. Thank you. My best wishes for a great new year. Best Regards, Y.Calleecharan
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