[OS X TeX] beamer: frame 'moving-up' problem

[Takanori Adachi]

Thanks a lot, Herbert and Joseph!

I found an old version of beamer in my local tex tree.
I removed it and rerun latex, then it generates normal frames, which is
great!
Again, thank you very much for your help!
Cheers,
-- taka

2012/7/24 Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>

>
> On Jul 24, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Joseph Wright wrote:
>
> > On 24/07/2012 12:24, Herbert Schulz wrote:
> >>
> >> On Jul 23, 2012, at 9:13 PM, Takanori Adachi wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello, I have used LaTeX Beamer on Windows 7 for a couple of years
> with no
> >>> problem.
> >>> Three weeks ago, I bought a MacBook Air and installed TeXLive on it.
> >>> LaTeX works perfect. However, I have a problem with Beamer on Mac.
> >>> All text in frames are moving up about by a half line, resulting a
> upper
> >>> half of title lines disappear for some themes such as Madrid.
> >>> The problem does not seem to depend on the theme I use because I see
> about
> >>> a half line space at the bottoms of each frame even with other themes.
> >>> All the source codes I have wrote starts like:
> >>>
> >>> \documentclass[dvipdfm]{beamer}
> >>> \usepackage{amsmath}
> >>> ..
> >>> \setbeamertemplate{background canvas}[vertical
> >>> shading][bottom=red!10,top=blue!10]
> >>> \usetheme{Madrid}
> >>>
> >>> They worked perfectly with Windows 7, but have a 'moving-up' problem
> with
> >>> Mac OSX 10.7.4.
> >>> Beamers versions are same 3.07.
> >>>
> >>> Any help or comments are very appreciated.
> >>> Thanks a lot,
> >>> -- taka
> >>
> >> Howdy,
> >>
> >> Since MacTeX installs an un-altered and complete version of TeX Live
> 2012 it certainly can't be the Mac. Could you give a minimal but complete
> and compilable example so we can test here? How are you compiling the
> document? I see that you are using a dvipdfm option to the beamer class. If
> you are using a front end application, e.g., TeXShop, to compile it uses
> pdflatex by default and even using the LaTeX+Distiller method uses
> LaTeX->dvips->ps2pdf by default.
> >>
> >> Good Luck,
> >>
> >> Herb Schulz
> >> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> >
> > In addition to a complete example, I would strongly suggest adding
> > \listfiles to your input and providing a complete file listing. Version
> > 3.07 is pretty old, and I suspect you may have different versions of
> > beamer installed.
> > --
> > Joseph Wright
>
> Howdy,
>
> A very good point! Beamer in TeX Live 2012 is at version 3.20? If you
> installed MacTeX 2012 you probably have an old version in your personal
> tree.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
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