Handouts from beamer presentations

Posted on Thursday, 29 Jun 2006.

It just took me two hours to put slides created with the LaTeX beamer class onto A4 pages as handouts. This is the solution I came up with (4 slides per page):

pdftops -paper A4 -expand original.pdf
psnup -4 -b2mm original.ps > handouts.ps 
ps2pdf handouts.ps

(Not entirely unrelated to this: the next few days I'm at a Lewis workshop near Heidelberg. I'll try to catch up with my emails next week.)

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# Kai von Fintel on 29 June 2006, 19:30

You might want to look into pdfjam (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic/firth/software/pdfjam/), which includes the pdfnup utility (which is a frontend to pdfpages). The author claims "there is no appreciable degradation of image quality in processing PDF files with thse programs, unlike some other indirect methods such as pdf2ps | psnup | ps2pdf (in the author's experience)". If you use Mac OS X, there is a graphical frontend to pdfnup: http://evolve.lse.ac.uk/software/PDFNupMaker/.

I use PDFNupMaker and usually my handouts are done in 1 minute from my beamer slides.

# wo on 29 June 2006, 20:11

wow, that really looks a lot better and easier. I'm using

pdfnup --nup 2x3 --frame true --delta "1cm 1cm" --scale 0.9 original.pdf

now. Many thanks!

# Ashish on 17 September 2009, 19:32

But is there a way to remove the duplicate slides, I mean the psuedo-dynamic beamer slides cause a lot of paper wastage, and I just want the slides with the actual content.

# test on 22 September 2009, 11:22

wtf..its written email will not be displayed, but it is indeed displayed, if you hover over the name.

Wolfgang Schwarz

Handouts from beamer presentations

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