EDIT: Now includes results from use of letterpaper
, as suggested in cfr's answer and comment.
I'm trying to create a Beamer handout that will be printed on letter paper. When I follow suggestions in the Beamer manual for using the pgfpages
package, I can manipulate the size and number of slides on a page (although I don't understand all of the size changes), but the page size always retains the normal Beamer slide dimensions. That shape looks good for the 4 on 1
argument for pgfpagesuselayout
(though that's not the same aspect ratio as 8-1/2 x 11), but I can't get reasonable output for 2 on 1
.
For example, the following produces one small slide on top of the other in the middle of a regular presentation-shaped page:
\documentclass[handout]{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[letter,border shrink=0.09in,landscape]
\usetheme{Madrid}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}\frametitle{frame 1}frame 1\end{frame}
\begin{frame}\frametitle{frame 2}frame 2\end{frame}
\begin{frame}\frametitle{frame 3}frame 3\end{frame}
\begin{frame}\frametitle{frame 4}frame 4\end{frame}
\end{document}
Removing landscape
gives me 1-1/2 slides per page, one on top of the other, on the left, i.e. uncentered, on the same page size.
Changing letter
to letterpaper
does not affect the page shape. In this case, without landscape
, I see most of a single slide--it's cut off on the right and on the bottom.
The second page looks the same, but with "frame 1" replaced by "frame 3". With landscape
, the result is similar, but the slide is shifted to the right.
It seems as if there's something wrong with my configuration, but I'm using a mostly vanilla configuration of TeX Live 2011. Beamer, including the Beamer manual, are from that distribution. This is in OS X 10.6.8.
Any thoughts on what's going wrong?
(It might help if I could find documentation for pgfpages. I haven't had success with Google. A quick look at the style file convinced me that it would require a bit of study.)
pgfpages
is covered in the TiKZ manual, I think.letterpaper
-letter
is not recognised.pgfpages
came from.