pdflatex "Required Page Does Not Exist" error with beamerarticle

Question

I have several beamer tex files and need to create a manual (using beamerarticle) that incorporates all of the beamer files (with their notes) as one document. The original basis of the articlebeamer output can be found here: Displaying slides with Beamer and Article class

Right now I have the following:

• chapter1.tex
• chapter2.tex
• chapter1.beamer.tex
• chapter2.beamer.tex
• full.article.tex

full.article.tex has something like this:

% BEGIN FULL.ARTICLE.TEX
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{beamerarticle}
\usepackage{pgf}

\setjobnamebeamerversion{chapter1.beamer}
\setjobnamebeamerversion{chapter2.beamer}

\newcommand{\showslide}[1]{
    \begin{figure}
        \center \fbox{\includeslide[width=10cm]{#1}}
    \end{figure}
}

\input{chapter1.tex}
\input{chapter2.tex}
% END FULL.ARTICLE.TEX

I already ran pdflatex on the *.beamer.tex files so the corresponding PDF outputs are in the same folder as the full.article.tex.

Running pdflatex full.article.tex, I get the following error:

!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ./chapter2.beamer.pdf): PDF inclusion: required page does not exist <8>

Would appreciate any help in figuring out what I'm doing wrong.

Answer 1

If you have already prepared pdf files you can use the following MWE to collect them to one pdf file (full.article.tex):

\documentclass{minimal}

\usepackage{pdfpages} % http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfpages

\begin{document}
  \includepdf[pages=-]{chapter1.beamer.pdf}
  \includepdf[pages=-]{chapter2.beamer.pdf}
% \includepdf[pages=-]{chapter3.beamer.pdf}
\end{document}

With macro \includepdf you can include complete or pages of the named pdf file in your document. Document class minimal gives no margins so your included pdf files are unchanged.