Bug 194707

AFAIK the version of tetex has not changed between openSuSE v10.1b3
and openSuSE v10.1. Beside this, why do you think that the empty space
between `border' and `shrink=10mm' without any colon will work within
the \pgfpagesuselayout{} macro  And AFAIK there is no latex style `pgfpages'
within the tetex nor within any sub package of tetex like te_latex.

And I've just tested all examples of the latex style `beamer' and all worked
out perfectly if done in the correct order. And just to be noted, there are
many \subsection{} found therein.  Two latex styles `pdfpages' and  the
latex style group around `pgf' (pgfarrows, pgfautomata, pgfheaps, pgfnodes,
pgfshade) are known but I've not found the keywords `border' nor `shrink'
therein. And AFAIK the latex style `hyperref' is providing a \pdfpagelayout{}
macro but use different string values as options. IMHO you just mixing up a
few latex styles, arn't you?

Jan? Please provide the info I've requested.

Hi Werner,

I'm currently at a conference in Amsterdam - hence time and net access is limited.

But to give some first bits of information:

The \pgfpagesuselayout{} is defined in:

    pgf/latex/pgf/utilities/pgfpages.sty

and it allows to shrink beamer slides to have borders to make them printable - as suggested in the beamer user manual.

I will attach a sample code for you to see the problem in action.

Regarding the update from b3 to final, I did originally install beta 3 and then only upgraded to the opensuse final rpms. Maybe that was a bad procedure (if so please let me know and inform me of the implications). I remember that there was an update/patch for tetex, which I installed from which point in time on I got the problem. But if my sample code runs without problems on your machine then we have a good hint that I screwed up my installation and it would not be a suse bug.

Thanks for your quick response on this issue.

Viele Grüsse,

    Jan

Created attachment 94672 [details]
test latex code for the beamer/pgf bug

this is the error message from pdflatex that I get:

-------
...
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty)
No file pgfpagesuselayout_but.nav.
! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
<to be read again>
                   \relax
l.132 \end{frame}
------

The file pgfpages.sty does not exist within the tetex 3.0

  /suse/werner> locate pgfpages.sty
  /suse/werner>
  /suse/werner> cd /usr/src/werner/tetex/listings/
  tetex/listings> grep pgfpages.sty tetex-list
  tetex/listings> 

... which package includes the file pgfpages.sty? Please
provide me the package name with the help of the
command

   rpm -qf <full_path_to>/pgfpages.sty

where the string <full_path_to> should be the full patch
to the file pgfpages.sty.

I see this error on your example:

  ! LaTeX Error: File `pgfpages.sty' not found.
  
  Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
  or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
  
  Enter file name:

... hmmm, the bug seems to caused by a foreign package
of foreign latex style file.  I'd like to close this
as INVALID.  IMHO you should talk to the author of
the file `pgfpages.sty' about your error.

If I do the following

export TEXINPUTS=/mirror/server/ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/graphics/pgf/latex/pgf//:/mirror/server/ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/graphics/pgf/generic/pgf//:/mirror/server/ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/beamer//:/mirror/server/www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex//:

to get the current version of pgf and beamedr file you example runs
without any problem:

Tests/beamer> pdflatex pgfpagesuselayout_but.tex
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
(./pgfpagesuselayout_but.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
[...]
(/mirror/server/www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/
hyperref/nameref.sty) (./pgfpagesuselayout_but.out)
(./pgfpagesuselayout_but.out)
No file pgfpagesuselayout_but.nav.
[2{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [3]
(./pgfpagesuselayout_but.aux) ){/usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/psnfss/8r.enc}
</usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/urw/helvetic/uhvr8a.pfb>
Output written on pgfpagesuselayout_but.pdf (2 pages, 22375 bytes).
Transcript written on pgfpagesuselayout_but.log.

IMHO you have mixed up two different version of beamer and pgf version,
one from a e.g. texlive system and one from an older teTeX 3.0 which
does not work in your case.

Dear Werner,

in the meantime I deinstalled the tetex rpm. Then deleted all remaining crap in the /usr/share/texmf directory and reinstalled tetex.

You're right about the latex package pgfpages not being part of the default suse/tetex rpm. Furthermore the beamer package seems to be the older v3.00 version. Therefore I decided to remove the directories containing beamer, xcolor and pgf and replace them with the latest versions from:

   http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/

This later version of pgf and beamer works well in the way I intended with my sample .tex code.

Thanks a lot though for the hint that I had screwed up my tetex installation during the upgrade from suse rc4 to final.

best regards,

    Jan