---
name: "impressive-gettransitions"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "impressive"
version: "0.13.1-1.1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/impressive-gettransitions"
---

# impressive-gettransitions(1)

Generate Impressive info scripts for LaTeX presentations

## NAME

impressive-gettransitions - Generate Impressive info scripts for LaTeX presentations

## SYNOPSIS

**impressive-gettransitions** *FILE.tex*

## DESCRIPTION

A simple script to produce a .info file for use with Impressive, using special comments in a LaTeX/Beamer file. *FILE.tex* is a file to be parsed into .info file. For each /fullpath/blah.tex /fullpath/blah.pdf.info gets produced.

## SYNTAX

In the LaTeX document, **impressive-gettransitions** counts the pages to determine the PDF slide number of each one.

The simpler page changes are automatically detected, that is:\
     \\begin{frame} and:\
     \\pause

Other, more elaborated page changes must be noted with a `%O` comment:\
     \\item\<1-\> Foo\
     \\item\<2-\> Bar `%O`

The transition to apply can be specified in a `%O` comment:\
     \\begin{frame} `%O` SlideUp

## OPERATION

When the .info file corresponding to the LaTeX document already exist, **impressive-gettransitions** does not clear it, but only adds the transitions if finds to it.

Thus, if you modified your document in a way that requires to completely replace the transitions, manually clear the *PageProps* section of the .info file. This can be done by running the following **sed** command:\
     sed -i -e "/^PageProps = {/,/^}/d" *FILE.info*

## SEE ALSO

[**impressive**(1)](/impressive/1.md)

## AUTHOR

impressive-gettransitions (originally gettransitions) has been written by Rob Reid.

This manpage has been originally written by Yaroslav Halchenko \<debian@onerussian.com\>.