Re: [MiKTeX] It takes a long time to compile with Beamer

[Philip G. R. <phi...@fa...>]

> It takes a very long time for me to compile latex files with the Beamer
> slides package.  I tried it on 3 computers of which 2 are new.  This is
> particularly time consuming since one tries to see how much can be
> fitted into each slide.
>
> Any help regarding this problem will be appreciated.  (I try the
> "handout" option and dvi, rather then pdf, compilation and this helps a
> bit but not sufficiently.)

Try putting each slide in its own file and then use \include. In this way,
you can use \includeonly so that only the slide on which you are currently
working gets compiled.

Cheers,  Phil Ratcliffe