Latex Issues

I faced an issue while using dvips + ps2pdf to generate pdf from latex. Seems to be this bug (prob in dvips):
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=690427

As a getaround, I switched to using dvipdfm.

Reference Cards and Latex

Some Latex Sources for Generating Reference Cards:

• http://limestone.truman.edu/~dbindner/mirror/
• http://phaseportrait.blogspot.com/2007/07/tex-reference-card-and-others.html

 A good quick references site: http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/indexe.html

Latex Figure Numbering Incorrect

As per http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/04/14/latex-fixing-wrong-figure-numbers/, latex figure caption should be put before label, otherwise you will probably get the figure numbers incorrect, as I did.

Beamer Font Problem

I installed the latex-beamer package on my ubuntu, and the example at http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ compiled with warnings like

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/n' in size <4> not available
(Font) size <5> substituted on input line 87.

Further, in the dvi output the headings did not appear well. Compiling with another example from http://www.math.utah.edu/~smith/Beamer showed the same problem.

This was a RED HERRING. Finally, when I built the ps from the dvi, all worked just fine.