Rich Shepard wrote:
I generate a PDF using the handout option, then use the print settings in
Acrobat Reader (or equivalent) to print either two or four slides per
page, depending on how much space I need for notes. If you turn off
scaling in AR, you get a lot of whitespace for notes (but a fairly small
image of the slide).
Acroread doesn't appear to have those options under Print->Setup. Paper
size and orientation is all.
Is this on Linux? Don't know how AR works there. I'm looking at AR 8.0
on Win XP right now. If I click File -> Print (or equivalent
shortcut/tool button), there's a preview of one page on the right and
(amongst other things) a "Page Handling" section on the left that
includes a check box for "Auto-Rotate and Center" and a drop-down list
for "Page Scaling". If I uncheck the former and set the latter to None
(with the default settings of letter size paper, portrait mode), my
slide scrunches itself up into the upper left corner leaving lots of
white space for scribbling. Same thing works with AR 7.0.
A much more tedious approach, but one that would let you type your notes
in LyX, would be to export a PDF handout version, use a PDF utility to
break it up into individual pages, then start an article in LyX and
import each slide as a graphic, to be followed by notes. One could also
just write the notes in LyX, print them, then cut and paste them onto
the whitespace of the printed slides.
/Paul
