foils:

    \begin{document}
    \small

beamer:

    \documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
    % default is 11pt

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foils:

    \rotatefoilhead{Page Title}{}

beamer:

    \begin{frame}
    \frametitle{Page Title}

    % page content


    \end{frame}

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in beamer, if you want to use verbatim in a page:

    \begin{frame}[fragile]


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foils:

    \noindent

beamer:

    % has no effect

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foils:

    \psfig{file=figure.eps,scale=0.8}

beamer:

    \includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{figure}

    this includes figure.pdf, figure.jpg or figure.png, whichever is present


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beamer, use of fig files (Xfig), convert to pdf

convert to pdf

do not use export function of Xfig

if there are no special LaTeX commands:

    fig2eps --bbox=gs file.fig
    epstopdf file.eps

if there are, then:

    fig2eps --bbox=gs --forcespecial --add=times file.fig
    epstopdf file.eps

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foils:

    \iffalse
    block
    \fi

beamer:

    %block

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foils:

    \rotatefoilhead{Page Title}{}
    \vspace*{-1cm}


beamer:

    don't use vspace