[OS X TeX] beamer error (or supp-pdf.mkii error) ?

[Alessandro Languasco]

On the beamer bug list, there's a description of the same problem
and a patch. See

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2952658&group_id=92412&atid=600660

Regards,
	Alessandro

On 16/feb/2010, at 12.31, Alessandro Languasco wrote:

> On tex-live list I just received a reply from Ulrike Fischer 
> in which she attributes the problem to an incompatibility between 
> a new version of geometry.sty and beamer.
> 
> Moreover, she suggests to use the following code
> 
> \makeatletter\let\ifGm at compatii\relax\makeatother
> \documentclass{beamer}
> 
> until the problem will be fixed.
> 
> I attach her email at the bottom of this message.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Alessandro
> 
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de>
>> Date: 16 febbraio 2010 11.36.37 GMT+01.00
>> To: tex-live at tug.org
>> Subject: Re: [tex-live] beamer error
>> Reply-To: news3 at nililand.de
>> 
>> Am Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:30:26 +0100 schrieb Alessandro Languasco:
>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> I was updating a set of slides for a lecture I have to do and 
>>> I encountered the following mistake during typesetting:
>>> 
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/themes/font/beamerfontthem
>>> estructurebold.sty)) (./Untitled.aux)
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii
>>> [Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
>>> )
>>> *geometry* driver: auto-detecting
>>> *geometry* detected driver: pdftex
>>> ./Untitled.tex:9: Undefined control sequence.
>>> \Gm at lmargin ->\Geom at lmargin 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> geometry 5.0 has removed the  options: 'compat2' and this breaks
>> some code in beamerbasecompatibility.sty. 
>> There is already a report in the beamer bug database.
>> 
>> In the meanwhile use this 
>> 
>> \makeatletter\let\ifGm at compatii\relax\makeatother
>> \documentclass{beamer}
>> ...
>> 
>> -- 
>> Ulrike Fischer 
>> 
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