How to prepare Slideshare-compatible slides withLaTeX and Beamer

Two simple tricks with the outlook and Scandinavian characters

Vesa Linja-aho

Metropolia

15. maaliskuuta 2011

Vesa Linja-aho How to prepare Slideshare-compatible slides with LaTeX and Beamer

Tip 1: Eliminating the annoying clutter from the blockcorners

If you use pdflatex to prepare your slides, they will look ok inAdobe Reader, Mac Preview etc, but Slideshare embedded viewer(as well as other Flash-based viewers I have seen) will add someclutter to the box corners, like on this slide:

Vesa Linja-aho How to prepare Slideshare-compatible slides with LaTeX and Beamer

Tip 1: Eliminating the annoying clutter from the blockcorners

If you use pdflatex to prepare your slides, they will look ok inAdobe Reader, Mac Preview etc, but Slideshare embedded viewer(as well as other Flash-based viewers I have seen) will add someclutter to the box corners.

Fix

For the final presentation to be uploaded, do not use pdflatex butuse: latex

dvips

ps2pdf

Vesa Linja-aho How to prepare Slideshare-compatible slides with LaTeX and Beamer

Tip 2: Scandinavian characters (åäö)

Select encoding and enable local hyphenation rules

To be able to use Scandinavian characters, specify the encoding:\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

Selecting correct hyphenation rules for your language might be agood idea:\usepackage[finnish]{babel}

Now the text will look great, but copy-paste from pdf will fail:ääkköset will produce aakk oset or something even more horrible.Same applies to Slideshare Presentation Transcript!

Solution: load fonts with scandinavian symbols

Be sure to include both of these lines:\usepackage{ae,aecompl}

\usepackage{lmodern}

Vesa Linja-aho How to prepare Slideshare-compatible slides with LaTeX and Beamer