Clock with powerdot and beamer

I would like to use powerdot to compose a document. I want to have a clock in the pdf file, but it does not show. If I am using Beamer, then how can I have a clock as in powerdot? Please help me.

\documentclass[size=12pt,
% style=husky,
% style= default
% style= elcolors
style=tycja,
paper=screen,
mode =present,
orient=landscape,
display = slidesnotes,
nopagebreaks,fleqn,clockformat]{powerdot}

\usepackage{fouriernc}

\begin{document}

\begin{slide}{First}
Let $ABC$ be a triangle.
\end{slide}

\end{document}

• Use the clock option instead of clockformat. Oct 10 '12 at 5:53
• And with beamer, you can use the tdclock package. Oct 10 '12 at 5:58
• I used clock, but I can not run.This is log file mediafire.com/?20o0771wny12h8w Oct 10 '12 at 6:09
• Maybe a bug with your version of hyperref: your version is v6.79k; my version is v6.83g. Oct 10 '12 at 8:57

2 Answers

With powerdot, you can:

• use the clock option,
• compile via latex->dvips->ps2pdf,
• and use a PDF Viewer with Javascript capacity (like Adobe Reader).
\documentclass[size=12pt,
style=tycja,
paper=screen,
mode =present,
orient=landscape,
display = slidesnotes,
nopagebreaks,fleqn,clock]{powerdot}
\usepackage{fouriernc}
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}{First}
Let $ABC$ be a triangle.
\end{slide}
\end{document}


With beamer, you can:

• use the tdclock package,
• compile via pdflatex,
• and use a PDF Viewer with Javascript capacity (like Adobe Reader).
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[timeinterval=1,font=Helv]{tdclock}
\setbeamertemplate{background}{\hspace{.5em}\textcolor{red}{\tiny\bfseries\tdtime}}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\initclock
\frametitle{First slide}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Second slide}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

• The beamer example produces red framed boxes instead of working clock in AR 9. Oct 10 '12 at 11:03
• @AlexG Here it's ok with Adobe Reader 9.4.1 on Ubuntu 12.10. Oct 10 '12 at 12:16
• I am using up-to-date TeXLive-2012, AR-9.5.1 on Gentoo. Oct 10 '12 at 13:04
• With original tdclock.sty, the clock in a second document open, such as tdclock-doc.pdf, will not work. I first opened tdclock documentation and then the beamer example. Oct 10 '12 at 13:32

Due to a bug in tdclock.sty, the clocks in more than one PDF opened in AR do not work except for the clock in the document opened first.

These are the steps to get clocks inserted using tdclock always working:

sed -i '/^global\.[ifd]/ s/^/%/' tdclock.sty
sed -i 's/global\.//g' tdclock.sty
sed -i 's/TextField\[/TextField\[readonly,/g' tdclock.sty


• What do I need to change to make it work on a Windows box with Cygwin? Jun 8 '18 at 4:21