[Tugindia] pdfscreen.sty

Radhakrishnan CV tugindia@tug.org
18 Oct 2002 22:25:41 +0530


>>>>> "Manoj" == Manoj Kummini <kummini@yahoo.com> writes:

    Manoj> Dear Dr. Kalidoss, --- "Fr. Jerome Cyber Centre"
    Manoj> <kalidoss@sjctni.edu> wrote:

    Kalidoss> 1. Transition from one slide to another?  (I tried
    Kalidoss> \pagedissolve but nothing seems to happen)

    Manoj> I have not done this in pdfscreen, but, as I understand it,
    Manoj> \pagedissolve is defined only when pdfscreen.sty is called
    Manoj> with option pdftex, which is the default option. What is
    Manoj> the option that you have used? CVR might say whether there
    Manoj> are other reasons.

hyperref has better facility (option: pdfpagetransition) which works
with all backends. So I stopped working on this since pdfscreen loads
hyperref. 

    Kalidoss> 3. I used successfully the pdfpages.sty (with a file
    Kalidoss> prepared using pdfscreen.sty) to prepare the
    Kalidoss> transparencies as suggested by CVR.  But I want my
    Kalidoss> transparencies only in BLACK and not in color.

    Manoj> See if ghostscript has options to convert colour pdf files
    Manoj> to b/w.

I tried this with 'convert' which I guess, calls gs, but got a crude
monochrome pdf. My gs version is 7.05.

Best

-- 
Radhakrishnan