[XeTeX] : Minimal XeTeX-compatible beamer document

Mi CHEN chenmi1999 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 12:12:40 CEST 2008


Hi,

U can try adding dvipdfm option to ur beamer class
\documentclass[dvipdfm]{beamer}

or update pgf and related packages.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Sven Siegmund <sven.siegmund at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am struggling with the beamer package and XeTeX. I have had a quick
> look on a discussion in this mailing list about too many warnings when
> compiling \documentclass{beamer}. I am still new to XeTeX and I have
> never used LaTeX before so I really could not figure out from the
> discussion what is the cause of the warnings. It is something about
> the beamer class that it still wants to work with PostScript, and
> XeTeX has direct output to PDF but that's really all I could get from
> the whole discussion.
>
> Right now I am trying to set up a minimal XeTeX beamer class document
> which I could somehow compile.
>
> I began with this:
>
> \documentclass{beamer}
> \begin{document}
> \begin{frame}
> Some text.
> \end{frame}
> \end{document}
>
> then I run "xelatex sample.tex" and what I get is about 1000 warnings
> and at last some PDF which says "Some text."
>
> the last warning did look like this:
>
> ** WARNING ** Interpreting PS code failed!!! Output might be broken!!!
> ** WARNING ** Interpreting special command ps: (ps:) failed.
> ** WARNING ** >> at page="1" position="(-28.3464, -1.2643e-005)" (in PDF)
> ** WARNING ** >> xxx "ps:SDict begin [ /View [/XYZ H.V] /Dest (page.1) cvn /DEST
>  p..."
> ** WARNING ** >> Reading special command stopped around >>begin [ /View [/XYZ H.
> V] /Dest (page.1) cvn /DEST pdfmark en.<<
>
> Output written on sample.pdf (1 page).
> Transcript written on sample.log.
>
> What shall I do to use the beamer class with XeTeX correctly?
>
> S.
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Regards,
Mi


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