Document Classes ⇒ viewing double-wide beamer pdf slides on two monitors

[Narb]

Hey all! I have kind of an old problem that does not seem to have gotten much attention.

I'm making a presentation with the beamer package, and using notes placed to the left of my slides. The compiled PDF looks perfect: two slides wide with content on the right and speaker notes on the left.

The problem occurs when I try to view the presentation on my dual-monitor laptop. I set my display mode to "Extended Desktop" with my laptop LCD (primary) on the left and external monitor (secondary) on the right. Now when I view the PDF in fullscreen mode, I get the double-wide slide squashed onto one screen instead of half on each screen like it should be. This occurs when I use Adobe Reader 7 and 8, Foxit Reader, and GSview32.

For completeness, I am running Windows XP on an Acer Aspire laptop, and my video card is the Intel GMA 915GME.

I've been googling this problem for a couple of hours and came up with squat! Does anyone know how to fix this, or know of a howto that addresses this problem specifically? because I'll gladly RTFM if it's there.

I can go back to single-sized slides if I must, but beamer's \note feature would be really helpful... and I have my Master's defense coming up so I'll need all the help I can get.

Thanks!!!

[mrtye]

Late reply...may not help poster, but could help others with same problem

The cheap and easy way to deal with this is to window acrobat (or whatever application if being used for the presentation. For those who don't need a step-by-step, just window the application, drag it to the top corner of one screen and stretch it down to the bottom corner of the other screen. For anyone who didn't follow that, keep reading...

You can view programs as 'windowed' or 'full screen'. If you look at the top-right corner of the program, you should see three little buttons: one with an X, one with a couple of little squares and one with a dash. The X closes the window, the dash minimizes it and the button with the little squares 'windows' the application.

So, click the button to 'window' the program...which will make it smaller and let you move it around. Click on the top bar (somewhere in the middle of the bar) and drag so the top-left corner of the window is in the top-left corner of the left-most screen. Now click on the bottom-right corner and drag it the bottom-right corner of the right-most screen. Voila! Now your program will act like your two screens are just one big screen.

[letombe]

Hi there,

I'm interested as well in a more convenient solution. The idea is to give a slides show without further display configurations. I assume that there exists a more convenient solution for it. I looked for it for a couple of hours with no success unfortunately. Does anybody know a good solution?

For completeness, I'm using a MacBook, and neither furnished software nor Adobe Reader looks to tackle this problem.

Cheers.

[pulpo]

Hi,
another MacBook user here, does anybody came out with a way to make this work?