[pdftex] Weird red boxes

[Hartmut Henkel]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Jean Hoderd wrote:

> I have one problem.  My pdftex produces weird red boxes in the middle
> of the page.

it's the \scalebox{0.5}. The annotations are in a separate PDF area and
are unfortunately not scaled with the rest (current pdftex can't provide
this, technically), so the annotations move away from the section
numbers 1 and 2. To see this, try to set the \scalebox{} parameter to
values between 0.5 and 1...

> What is more strange is that they disappear when I try to print the
> document!

that't normal. The red boxes are only for clicking, screen navigation.

> First I thought it was a bug with Acrobat Reader, but xpdf also shows
> the same red boxes.  I hope you can give me some help with this,
> because I need to produce a PDF for a presentation, and the red boxes
> are really annoying.

try to avoid this picture scaling (e. g. by scaling the font inside the
picture). But anyway better for presentations use a LaTeX presentation
package like "beamer". Gives you many goodies (navigation, font scaling,
sequential page build-up, nice backgrounds and frames...).

Regards, Hartmut


> Here is a document that shows the problem:
>
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
>
> \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
> \usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \section*{Preface}
> \label{sec:preface}
>
> This is the preface.
>
> \begin{figure}
> \centering
> \setlength{\unitlength}{1cm}
> \scalebox{0.5}{\framebox{%
> \begin{picture}(6,4)
> \put(3,1){\oval(3,1)}
> \put(3,3){\oval(3,1)}
> \put(2,1){\makebox{Section~\ref{sec:introduction}}}
> \put(2,3){\makebox{Section~\ref{sec:conclusion}}}
> \end{picture}}}
> \caption{Overview}
> \label{fig:overview}
> \end{figure}
>
> \section{Introduction}
> \label{sec:introduction}
>
> This is the introduction.
>
> \section{Conclusion}
> \label{sec:conclusion}
>
> This is the conclusion.
>
> \end{document}