[OS X TeX] LaTeX ->Keynote (with black background)?

[Roger Hart]

I'd like to thank everyone who kindly replied to my message. I've  
found LaTeXiT very helpful, and will certainly use it in the future.  
But unfortunately I can't use it with ps4pdf, at least not without  
some extra work.

For creating slides on a black background, TeXShop is actually  
perfect: After reading through the online Help, I found one can  
change the settings on the TeXShop background, so that colored and  
white text can be seen. So I can just typeset the entire article in  
white, then copy the portions I need for my talk.

The real problem I encountered is that ps4pdf did not seem to work  
properly with \color{white} (at least not on my, possibly somewhat  
unusual, TeX configuration, with Chinese, etc.). That is, for reasons  
that I do not understand, the first pic was OK, but the second and  
following were not converted from dvi to pdf, according to the error  
messages. Also \fbox was drawing only two of four lines. In the end,  
I found that using the command

\textcolor[cmyk]{.01,.01,.01,.01}

following \PSforPDF fixed both problems (the {.01,.01,.01,.01} fixed  
\fbox, and with \textcolor instead of \color ps4pdf worked properly).

Again, thanks to those who replied, and best wishes for the New Year,

Roger

On Jan 5, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote:

> On 5 Jan 2006, at 9:28, Jung-Tsung Shen wrote:
>
>> On 1/4/06, Roger Hart <rhart at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>>> I would like to use Keynote's "Gradient" background (which is dark
>>> grey->black) for a presentation I'm preparing, which means, if  
>>> I'm to
>>> cut-and-paste, that I need to have my text and equations in white. I
>>> use the latest version of TeXShop and KeyNote. Is there a simple way
>>> to do this?
>>>
>>
>> You might want to try the "Keynote + LaTeXiT" combination. You can
>> simply cut and paste your codes for the equations from your article
>> and paste it in LaTeXiT to compile.
>>
>> I used prosper package for 2+ years before and started using  
>> Keynote +
>> LaTeXiT not too long ago and never looked back.
>
> And if you start to use LaTeXiT + Keynote, then you will want to  
> use the
> LinkBack plugin for keynote as well:
>   http://commons.ucalgary.ca/~king/projects/keynoteplugins/linkback/
>
> It allows you to drop LaTeX equations and snippets into keynote, and
> double-click them there to go back to LaTeXiT to change them, without
> retyping them completely.
>
> I love the combination.
>
> Maarten
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