This may be interesting for those of you who are into LaTeX and Linux: Auto-cropping PDF files.
If you have read my previous posting on LaTeX Beamer, you may remember that there were two example slides taken from a lecture of mine. Most slides for this lecture have a similar layout, consisting of a three-column table with fixed column widths. For photos to be shown in the right column, details become beyond recognition if the image or photo has a landscape-like aspect ratio or is scaled down by a large factor.
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Aug. 25th, 2010 08:23 pmThe Swedish summer fades into a rainy autumn, which means it is time again to prepare lectures for the coming months. As a long-time LaTeX user, I use the LaTeX Beamer package for all my slides. During the last few months, I have developed some new helper commands and environments for LaTeX slides, which I want to present here.
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