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stu003

The class file generated from powerdot.dtx is marked as version "2005/12/06 v1.3" although it differs even from the 2006 version and is copyrighted as "Copyright (C) 2005-2006, 2010 ..." I think the maintainer should update the version info.

stu003

Thanks a lot for your reply. I just tried to access the author's mailinglist and found the report for this problem there. The author suggested to get the latest version from CTAN archive. I tried it, this version solves the problem. It is just not yet added to the MiKTeX repository.

stu003

I found a dirty workaroud for my problem with the help of pagesel package to skip typesetting the first slide:

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\documentclass {powerdot}

\usepackage [2 - 1000] {pagesel}

\begin {document}

\begin {slide} %
  {test}
  %
  test
  %
\end {slide}

\end {document}

stu003

Sure, this file is generated with the source I have posted. Here I also attach the generated DVI and PS files. I used MiKTeX 2.8 with all the recent packages posted on March, 30.

stu003

Hi,

I use MiKTeX 2.8, which I have recently installed in place of the version 2.7, with the most recent updates available. Today I tried to typeset my 1.5 month old project using powerdot class and found out that it generates a blank page with 'preamble' word at the bottom left before all other ...

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