[Tex/LaTex] way to change papersize in beamer

beamerpaper-size

From what I have gathered on the interwebs, I found that beamer gives no basic options to change the papersize. I am however in desperate need of exactly that. Mind that I don't want to re-scale one or more frames to an A4, I want to actually change the size of every frame.

Is there any way to work around this?

edit:

@JosephWright The reason I need to change the paper size is because I need to end up with the different slides in PNG format. These png's have to be a certain size. I was planning on simply converting the pdf to png's like you could normally do with LaTeX, untill I found out the problem with resizing in beamer.

@ prettygully I have already looked at the beamerposter package, but it seems like beamerposter puts all the frames on one page, what would make the conversion to PNG's impossible

edit2:

@ Andrew Stacey Your answers solved my personal problem as I was unaware of aspect ratio and my own ratio happens to be incredibly close to 16/9. I will correct the dimensions during PNG conversion.

I am still interested if anyone can come up with a general answer to the question thought.

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The class beamer uses the package geometry to setup the page dimension. The package geometry provides the command \geometry to set options in the preamble. So you can simple use:

\geometry{paper=a4}

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You can use the geometry package, or the memoir document class for this. Here's an example with geometry (the kantian stuff is just to provide filler text):

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\usepackage[paperwidth=148mm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\kant[1-8]
\end{document}

If that looks close to what you need, I suggest then reading the geometry or memoir documentation to make the other adjustments you need (such as tuning the margins).

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You can test with the macro \IfFileExist{filename}{then-do-this}{else-do-this} whether a file filename exists or not and respond accordingly. If the file filename exists, the then-do-this branch is executed, otherwise the else-do-this branch. Replace then-do-this and else-do-this with your own code.

In your new given MWE I would delete thr part to copy the pdf file and change the part to build the thumbnail slide to (supposing you have 4 thumbnails to include):

\IfFileExists{\jobname-copy.pdf}{%
\begin{frame}
  \foreach \i in {1,...,4} {
    \fbox{\includegraphics[width=0.2\linewidth, page=\i] {\jobname-copy.pdf}}
  }
\end{frame}
}{\typeout{No Thumbnails included}}

Now you only need to do (you can put this into a batch file):

pdflatex myslides.tex
pdflatex myslides.tex
cp myslides.pdf myslides-copy.pdf
pdflatex myslides.tex

The thumbnail were only included if the file myslides-copy.pdf exists. If not file myslides.tex compiles without included thumbnails.

Update 2:

The reason for the error message you got

Error: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...

is simple: you want to copy the file myslides.pdf you have already opened to compile it. That's not possible. So you have to first compile the presentation to get the frames and to close this file myslides.pdf. Then copy the file myslides.pdf to myslides-copy.pdf to include the thumbnails from myslides-copy.pdf into a new compiled file myslides.pdf.

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