Document Classes ⇒ Beamer & Columns

[OphTeX]

Hi!

I would like to write my first presentation with beamer, but have encountered problems. I'm using KUbuntu 10.10 with Kile. I can normally create slides without trouble, the problems start, when I try to part the page to put pictures in it. If I try this

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\documentclass{beamer}
\mode<presentation>

\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{default}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}{Test}

\begin{columns}[c]

\column{2.5cm}

\begin{itemize}
\item One Item
\item Another Item
\end{itemize}

\column{3.5cm}
\framebox{\includegraphics[width=1.5cm]{flower}}
\end{columns}
 
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}

 \begin{columns}[t]

\begin{column}{5cm}

Two\\lines.

\end{column}

\begin{column}{5cm}

One line (but aligned).

\end{column}


\end{columns}

\end{frame}

\end{document}

Kile produces only empty pages (just the slide title appears). As you can see, this even happens without pictures, the column environment alone causes this. I have really looked into this, but everywhere in the internet columns are treated that way and seem to work fine.

Can anybody please tell me what's wrong? Thank you!

[frabjous]

Your sample works for me.

beam.png (5.57 KiB) Viewed 4207 times

I would try deleting all the auxiliary files (.aux, .nav, etc.) and trying again. If you still have problems, post your .log file here, perhaps adding \listfiles to the code to get a list of the files versions put in the log.

[OphTeX]

That's very strange indeed, since it isn't working on my lappy too...

Thanks for looking into this, deleting the files did NOT change anything, so here's my log.

[frabjous]

Hmm. It's not clear from the log what the problem is. How are you viewing the result? Are you converting to PS or PDF first? Viewing in Okular?

One difference is that I was using pdflatex and you are using plain latex. I couldn't tell from your sample what kind of file "flower" was, so I just used a .jpg. I wonder if pdflatex would work better. Could you try converting flower.eps to flower.pdf (you can do this by running

epstopdf flower.eps

on the command line.) Then try compiling with PDFLaTeX and see if that works?

Another difference is I was using TeXlive 2010, and you're using TeXlive 2009, and I know there were some issues between beamer and TL 2009 (though I thought it resulted in a segfault, which you don't seem to be having).

[OphTeX]

Thank you, I'll try to update to texlive2010 then since I've already tried it with pdfLatex as well. If the problem persists I will be here. I'm converting Latex-DVI-Pdf and viewing in Okular, yes. I will try and convert the picture though.

Thanks again.

[frabjous]

Just to be clear, you get the problem even if you completely remove the first frame environment altogether?

[OphTeX]

Hmm... it seems I have it figured out, I have no idea what the problem was (is) however. After setting the build settings to "Latex-DVItoPS-PStoPDF-viewPDF" it seems to work now. Earlier I found out, that the text (without the pictures though) was actually appearing in the dvi document, the main problem must have been the conversion from dvi to pdf.

Whatever, thank you for your time.

regards