I have a beamer presentation that shows a lot of graphs (in the sense
of graph theory) and it takes a lot to compile. I think that the
standalone
package might help me but I cannot see how. Let us say
this is my main document (I'm using Emacs, and an updated vanilla TeX
Live 2011 in Ubuntu 11.10):
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[mode=buildnew]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
%\includestandalone{simpleframe}
\input{simpleframe}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
%%% Local Variables:
%%% LaTeX-command: "latex -shell-escape"
%%% End:
and this is the file simpleframe.tex:
\documentclass[beamer]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{standaloneframe}
\only<1>{One}
\only<2>{Two}
\end{standaloneframe}
\end{document}
Then:
- compiling simpleframe.tex is OK
- compiling the main file is OK as it is
- compiling the main file with
\includestandalone
only shows the
first overlay, and with overfull boxes.
I would like the advantages of [mode=buildnew]
, and, isn't true that
for that I need to use \includestandalone
? How do I do that?
Best Answer
I'm the author of
standalone
. First, yes[mode=buildnew]
needs\includestandalone
. Files included with\input
will not be affected bymode
. Your problem here is that the standalone file is included as image with this mode and\includestandalone
. This is done using\includegraphics
which by default only picks the first page of a multi-page PDF. In order to make this work\includegraphics
would need to reapply the overlay specifications in the standalone file, i.e.\includegraphics<1>[page=1]{...}
,\includegraphics<2>[page=2]{...}
, etc. This is currently not the case, but I will put it on the to-do list for the package.I now created some code which will include all pages of the standalone PDF into beamer. It's just a simple proof-of-concept code and does not support everything, e.g.
\graphicspath
is not supported and the PDF is also not build bystandalone
.Note that
standalone
sbeamer
support is actually not meant for your application. Having the whole frame as image is not really the way to go. The problem is also that withbeamer
thestandalone
content is not cropped. You might want to look for a better way to improve compiling speed. Have a look at\includeonlyframes
in thebeamer
manual.