major frustration printing handouts

[P.K.]

Is there a way to keep the frame borders when printing handouts. They seem to disappear.
I get the borders when printing exported pdf from Acrobat. But is this a "normal" feature, a bug or is it only me having this problem?
Using OO 2.0 for third day now...

[ccooper]

I believe it is a bug

[misza]

Hi All,
I think I have a temporary solution for this problem of printing handouts (on linux anyhow, I am using OO2.0 on gentoo):

1) Click on handouts tab (portrait can be enabled with right click->Slide...->Page setup) and change layout with tasks panel at right

2) File->Print

3) Select print to file. Open Options dialog and uncheck the Contents "Drawing" option and check the "Handout" option.

4) Proceed to print file and choose filename for the postscript output

5) You will notice that the file is "blank" when previewed with gv despite the file having a large size.

6) Run ps2pdf output.ps. Open output.pdf with xpdf or acroread and hey presto! Handouts!

Hope this helps!

[steve_p]

Hi all,

I personally use ghostscript with redmon as a pdf printer. I set it up manually. However google returns this result for a bundled package.
http://www.gicomsrl.it/pdf4free-en.html

I cannot attest to whether it will work for you or not.

There are direction somewhere on the ghostscript site that explain how to set it up as a pdf printer using redmon.

here is another site i found that explains the process
http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSWriter/GSWriter.html

I found the Adobe ps driver works really well. However many people get excellent results with the ps printer drivers mentioned in the web page.

if I remember rightly, pdf995 is the same thing but puts a watermark in one of the ghostscript ps files.

If you install a pdf "printer" in this manner, it is real easy to get pdfs.

simply select Print -> then select the pdf "printer" that was created -> click OK ->enter a filename -> click save.

Another option is to use Freedist. It has several options like merging, watched folders etc.
get it here: http://home.hccnet.nl/s.vd.palen/index.html

Using the watched folder method, you can print to file using any ps printer driver. When the file is placed in the folder, freedist will automatically convert it to a pdf.

Best wishes

[renato]

When I tried to print handouts I only got blank pages. Moreover I needed pdf file to give to my students.
On Linux, I generated the pdf file of the slides ("export as pdf") and then used pdfnup to put more then one slide per page.

pdfnup --nup 1x2 --orient portrait --frame true --delta "1cm 1cm" --scale 0.9 --outfile $OUTFILE $INFILE

This is for 2 slides per page stacked one on the othe with a framebox.
You can easily put as many as you like by changing the nup parameter CxR. Where R is the number of rows and C that of columns. Pdfnup has also many other interesting parameters.

Renato