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l0calh05t
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Beamer & XeLaTex

Post by l0calh05t »

Has anyone here got any experience with using the beamer class with XeLaTeX?

It seems to work mostly, but some things seem "broken", for example the symbols for skipping to the next frame etc. do not work (pdfbookmarks are there, though)

Here's my current preamble:

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\documentclass[xetex]{beamer}

\mode<presentation>
{
  \usetheme{Warsaw}
  \setbeamercovered{transparent}
}

%\usepackage[utopia]{mathdesign}
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage[german]{babel}

\setmainfont[Scale=MatchUppercase,Mapping=tex-text,SmallCapsFont={Gentium Book Basic Bold}]{Gentium Book Basic}
\setsansfont[Scale=MatchLowercase,Mapping=tex-text]{Bitstream Vera Sans}
\setmonofont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Bitstream Vera Sans Mono}

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propell
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Beamer & XeLaTex

Post by propell »

l0calh05t wrote:Has anyone here got any experience with using the beamer class with XeLaTeX?

It seems to work mostly, but some things seem "broken", for example the symbols for skipping to the next frame etc. do not work (pdfbookmarks are there, though)
Beamer uses PGF to draw the symbols. If I remember correctly the xelatex support has been much improved in the development version of PGF. If you are using an old version of PGF you could try upgrading to 2.0 or better, use the CVS version:
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=142562

You can also find recent builds here:
http://www.texample.net/tikz/builds/

- Kjell Magne Fauske
Last edited by propell on Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.
l0calh05t
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Re: Beamer & XeLaTex

Post by l0calh05t »

Symbols are displayed correctly. It's mostly the PDF features that don't work. For the time being I switched to normal pdfLaTeX.
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