includegraphics* in Beamer?

[Dominique]

Hello,

I've been trying to include PDF graphics into my Beamer presentation
using the starred version of \includegraphics. The reason is that I
want to clip the picture and reveal it piece by piece. I can do it
using the viewport and clip options of \includegraphics, but
unfortunately, the image's position changes from one slide to the
next. According to a graphicx tutorial, that's what the starred
version of \includegraphics is supposed to fix (see, e.g., the
"Cropping" section of http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:Pictures).

Unfortunately, this is what Beamer tells me when I try to use
\includegraphics* :

! LaTeX Error: File `*' not found.

I've seen a couple of discussions about this on the web, with no clear
solution. For instance:
http://www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2009-January/038682.html

I'm using version 3.10 of Beamer (rcs-revision a6b1a8434d30) under OSX
10.6.8 from the 2010 TeXLive distribution.

Somehow I'm not able to determine if this issue has since been fixed
or if there's a workaround.

Thanks!

Dominique

[Dominique]

Post by Dominique
Hello,
I've been trying to include PDF graphics into my Beamer presentation
using the starred version of \includegraphics. The reason is that I
want to clip the picture and reveal it piece by piece. I can do it
using the viewport and clip options of \includegraphics, but
unfortunately, the image's position changes from one slide to the
next. According to a graphicx tutorial, that's what the starred
version of \includegraphics is supposed to fix (see, e.g., the
"Cropping" section ofhttp://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:Pictures).
Unfortunately, this is what Beamer tells me when I try to use
! LaTeX Error: File `*' not found.
I've seen a couple of discussions about this on the web, with no clear
solution. For instance:http://www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2009-January/038682.html
I'm using version 3.10 of Beamer (rcs-revision a6b1a8434d30) under OSX
10.6.8 from the 2010 TeXLive distribution.
Somehow I'm not able to determine if this issue has since been fixed
or if there's a workaround.
Thanks!
Dominique

I just installed TeXLive 2011 but it still contains version 3.10 of
Beamer, so this problem is still present. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dominique