Page Layout

AlexS1985 · Post by **AlexS1985** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:11 am

Hi guys,

I want to define my own beamer class. Therefore I have three questions.

1. Does anyone have a good userguide for defining the output profiles? I defined them with the wizard, everything works, but I want to know, which function the entries have. E.g. I changed the entry for makeindex in the latest TeXnicCenter with TeXLive 2010 from %bm to %tm, because otherwise I don't get a bibliography in my presentation. I used the TeXnicCenter help, but it is still not clear to me.

2. I want to cite my source of the text on each slide of the presentation. How can I get this line to the very bottom of my slide? Can somebody explain to me exactly, what the command \vfill does?

3. I want to define the height and the width of my page. If I do this via \paperwidth and \paperheight, the visible part changes its size. That is not what I want. I need a slide, that is e.g. 297*210mm, and a text that is 200*150mm. How can I do this, and how can I move the 200*150mm text within my slide?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Best wishes,
Alex

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Post by **localghost** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:26 pm

Please don't mix several different topics in one thread. At least your first question is completely misplaced in this sub-forum and you have to open a separate thread in the appropriate sub-forum for TeXnicCenter (TXC). And the second one isn't directly related to beamer, too.

AlexS1985 wrote:[…] I want to define my own beamer class. […]

You don't really want to do that. You just want your own presentation template.

AlexS1985 wrote:[…] I want to cite my source of the text on each slide of the presentation. How can I get this line to the very bottom of my slide? Can somebody explain to me exactly, what the command \vfill does? […]

The \vfill commands is one of the commands to insert spaces in a LaTeX document.

AlexS1985 wrote:[…] I want to define the height and the width of my page. If I do this via \paperwidth and \paperheight, the visible part changes its size. That is not what I want. I need a slide, that is e.g. 297*210mm, and a text that is 200*150mm. How can I do this, and how can I move the 200*150mm text within my slide?

Define the desired page setup in landscape format by the geometry package and use common document class. For your purpose you don't really need a presentation class.

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

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Page Layout ⇒ Beamer Page Settings, Output Profiles

Beamer Page Settings, Output Profiles

Beamer Page Settings, Output Profiles