LaTeX and Beamer are great tools when preparing slides which contain mathematical formulas, circuit diagrams and that kind of stuff. However, to eliminate some nasty characteristics, few simple tricks are necessary.

1. How to prepare Slideshare-compatible slides with
LaTeX 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 Bea

2. Tip 1: Eliminating the annoying clutter from the block
corners
If you use pdflatex to prepare your slides, they will look ok in
Adobe Reader, Mac Preview etc, but Slideshare embedded viewer
(as well as other Flash-based viewers I have seen) will add some
clutter to the box corners, like on this slide:
Vesa Linja-aho How to prepare Slideshare-compatible slides with LaTeX and Bea

3. Tip 1: Eliminating the annoying clutter from the block
corners
If you use pdflatex to prepare your slides, they will look ok in
Adobe Reader, Mac Preview etc, but Slideshare embedded viewer
(as well as other Flash-based viewers I have seen) will add some
clutter to the box corners.
Fix
For the final presentation to be uploaded, do not use pdflatex but
use: latex
dvips
ps2pdf
Vesa Linja-aho How to prepare Slideshare-compatible slides with LaTeX and Bea

4. 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 a
good 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 Bea