Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ dcpic | Incompatible with the 'beamer' class

[jocaps]

Hi,

When using beamer and the dcpic package I get an odd error:

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! Missing number, treated as zero
<to be read again>

l.4 \begin{document}

I tried it with a superslim .tex file:

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\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{dcpic}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Some frame title}
blabla
\end{frame}
\end{document}

I read somewhere that this is some old beamer bug, I haven't updated my beamer package for quite a while. Any help/suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks

[localghost]

I don't know which of them is the culprit, but I can comprehend the problem. At first you can try to update all related stuff to remedy that. As an alternative for your commutative diagrams you could use the pgf/tikZ package. Internally the beamer class already uses PGF. So you could be sure that this combination will work. The package manual has the details. In case of upcoming questions, feel free to ask.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[jocaps]

well my solution was to switch to powerdot as I can't afford not working with dcpic right now. My presentation comes from a work that makes extensive use of dcpic and trying to switch to pgf would mean rewriting all of the diagrams. powerdot seems to require less from your system too, so I'm pretty ok with that. Thanks for the help though.

Jose

PS: dcpic uses pictex