After comparing my .log file with Dick Koch's for a Beamer file with one empty frame, I found 4 relevant differences:<br>(1) his says "\write18 enabled", mine says "restricted \write18 enabled". This prompted me to try compiling with sudo pdflatex, and this actually works, for the empty file and for full presentations. But compiling with sudo seems like a bad long-term idea. The following are the other relevant differences (that I get if I compile *without* sudo; with sudo the only difference is the "restricted \write18 enabled").<br>
(2 & 3) His:<br>______________ <br>Package pgfsys Info: Driver file for pgf: pgfsys-pdftex.def on input line 885.<br><br>(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys-pdftex.d<br>ef<br>File: pgfsys-pdftex.def 2007/12/20 (rcs-revision 1.20)<br>
<br>(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys-common-p<br>df.def<br>File: pgfsys-common-pdf.def 2007/12/17 (rcs-revision 1.8)<br>)))<br>_______________<br>Mine:<br>_______________<br>Package pgfsys Info: Driver file for pgf: pgfsys-dvips.def on input line 885.<br>
<br>(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/<a href="http://pgfsys-dvips.de">pgfsys-dvips.de</a><br>f<br>File: pgfsys-dvips.def 2007/12/12 (rcs-revision 1.19)<br><br>(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys-common-p<br>
ostscript.def<br>File: pgfsys-common-postscript.def 2008/02/07 (rcs-revision 1.18)<br>\pgf@objectcount=\count109<br>)))<br>________________<br>It's as though mine wants ps output instead of pdf.<br>(4) His has<br>________________<br>
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/epstopdf-sys.cfg<br>File: epstopdf-sys.cfg 2010/07/13 v1.3 Configuration of (r)epstopdf for TeX Liv<br>e<br>))<br>________________<br>and mine doesn't, consistent with the idea that something in my setup thinks it doesn't want pdf output, though in the end it does output a pdf (after all the Non-PDF special ignored! messages).<br>
<br>Anybody know what might cause this, and how to fix it? <br><br>Rick<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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