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bobp_123
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Beamer PDF- How to make/verify portability

Post by bobp_123 »

I'm having a heck of problem with the PDF generated by Beamer and pdfLatex.

My beamer-generated PDF files are not portable. They show fine on my machines but fail on other's machines.

I've had the embarassment of sending out Beamer-PDF to others only to find out that many lines are empty.

Although I am embedding Type-1 fonts and can verify that I have no Type-3 fonts I am perplexed about the empty lines on other's computers. These computers indicate a font problem however my computers do not show the problem.

I hope to be giving a major presentation in a month from now and desire to both use Beamer and to have 100% confidence that my presentation will be portable to the conference's computer and to those of a distribution list.

* Is there a 100% verification method to validate PDF portability?
* Is there a means to guarantee that beamer-generated PDF presentations will be portable?

Thank you in advance! I appreciate any help and direction you can give.

Bob

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Re: Beamer PDF- How to make/verify portability

Post by localghost »

Build a short example that causes such problems and attach the source sode as well as the final output to your next post by uploading it to the forum server.


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Thorsten
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