[pdftex] Pdflatex and seminar

[Ying-Jui Chen]

Hi,

Here is what I found out from the web and is used as my preamble:
\documentclass[semrot,12pt]{seminar}

\newif\ifpdf
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
   \pdffalse
\else
   \pdfoutput=1
   \pdftrue
\fi  

\ifpdf
  \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
  \pdfcompresslevel=9
  \pdfpagewidth=11truein %297truemm % your milage may vary....
  \pdfpageheight=8.5truein %210truemm
  \pdfhorigin=1truein     % default value(?), but doesn't work without
  \pdfvorigin=1truein     % default value(?), but doesn't work without
\else
  \usepackage{graphicx}
\fi

I hope this helps!

YJ

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Martin Reed wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to use pdflatex with seminar but am having problems with it.
> I guess this must be a common problem, but I cannot find any searchable
> verion of the tug mail lists, is there one?
> 
> My problem is that the slides appear as landscape but small on a mostly
> empty a4 portrait page.
> 
> I have tried setting the slide/paper sizes with commands like:
> \def\paperwidth{210mm}
> \def\paperheight{297mm}
> \input sem-page.sty
> \slidewidth 222mm
> \slideheight 152mm
> 
> in seminar.con as described in seminar documentation and have tried
> various combinations of paper/slide sizes. However, the end effect seems
> to be that slides either appears only half on the paper or with lots of
> white space. Is there an answer to this?
> 
> I am using:
> pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159-0.13d
> and seminar from tetex 1.0.6-7 
> 
> 
> Martin.
> 
> PS I have tried vtex/free on Linux, and it works but is slow as it
> always has to convert eps graphics each time (i know there is a draft
> mode but...). So I would really like to use pdflatex which is also open
> source.
> 
> 

-- 
Regards,
Ying-Jui Chen, PhD student, ECE Dept, Boston University 
617/353-9570            http://multirate.bu.edu/~yrchen