What is the role of "final" in
\documentclass[final]{beamer}
\usepackage[size=a0,orientation=portrait]{beamerposter}
? It seems nothing changes when I remove it. Thank you.
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\documentclass[final]{beamer}
\usepackage[size=a0,orientation=portrait]{beamerposter}
? It seems nothing changes when I remove it. Thank you.
I could not find a hint on a class or package option final
in neither the beamer
or beamerposter
documentation nor in the respective .cls
or .sty
file. I'd therefore assume that the option final
is not known and not used and therefore has no effect on the output.
Other document classes such as article
throw a warning upon using an unknown option. This is shown by the following MWE that gives this warning: LaTeX Warning: Unused global option(s):[abcdef].
\documentclass[abcdef]{article}
\begin{document}
some text
\end{document}
If one tries the same nonsense option with the beamer
class (as in the following example), no warning message is generated:
\documentclass[abcdef]{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
Some text
\end{frame}
\end{document}
microtype
package handles afinal
option (as opposed todraft
). Maybe this is a leftover from a previous version of the document that usedmicrotype
(or another package that handlesfinal
), or it was carried over via copy/paste from such a document?