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Rondebosch
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Beamer Presentation Question

Post by Rondebosch »

This is my first time working with Beamer.
So my question is a pretty basic one: Once you generate a pdf file from the tex file, how do you present/view the file so that you can move from slide to slide (without scrolling)? Is it possible to do this on a Mac computer?
Thank you so much for your help!

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Re: Beamer Presentation Question

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Every PDF viewer should provide a presentation mode (full screen). Mostly this mode is accessible via menu or short cut. The help function of your viewer should tell you more.


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In a Mac, open the PDF file with Adobe Reader. Then press Command-L to enter in full screen mode, which is the right mode to project the presentation through a beamer. You leave this mode by hitting the Escape key. In Preview, things are similar: press Shift - Command - F.
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Beamer Presentation Question

Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

Hi Rondebosch,

welcome to the LaTeX Community board!
In addition to the postings above I want to mention that you can set the hyperref option pdfpagemode to FullScreen:

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\hypersetup{pdfpagemode=FullScreen}
You may find more inside the hyperref manual in 3.6 PDF display and information options.

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Rondebosch
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Re: Beamer Presentation Question

Post by Rondebosch »

Thank you so much for your posts! I really appreciate it. That works perfectly.
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