Re: [applekeynote] problems printing handouts

I'm a tremendous advocate for the approach that Garr Reynolds taught in his book.

He reminds us that printed out copies of presentations are insufficient -- in fact just plain awful -- as handouts and should not be used. 

And if your slides really do have enough information on them that someone could refer back to them after the presentation, they they're way too busy to be used as slides.

He recommends having a separate document that has all of the information from the presentation, plus any references that you want to cite, etc, to hand out after the presentation. 

Chuck

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On Aug 13, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Martin Land wrote:

Ross - formatting for printing handouts directly from Keynote remains incredibly unfriendly. I usually hand out 6 slide/page handouts at the end of the talk (so they aren't distracted during).  But generating them is bloody murder. Here is how I get mine:

1. >Page set up >Portrait    2. >Print >Copies & Pages >Keynote   3. Select "Handout" plus the parameters you want (E.g., 6 slides/page; uncheck draft quality; Add lines; Number slides; etc.etc

4. Then click on PDF and select Save as PDF, and you will get a decent handout file (However, a file that can be very large depending on the size of images used; movies that have been embedded, etc.)  That can cause problems with particularly older printers (a memory issue I think).

If you did not uncheck draft quality, or if you try to compress the pdf file (selecting that option) the file size MAY get smaller, but such seems to be rather unpredictable.  

Printed files resulting from either of those two options are horribly pixelated, fuzzy, etc.

Also, I have not found a way to adjust margin settings; The KEynote defaults push content too far to the left of the page to permit use of three hole punched paper.

Anyone with a better method, PLEASE let us know; If there is no better way, we have to keep writing to Apple on their feedback page to hopefully see imporvements.

I was hoping that by now we would have a path via Pages that would give us more control...

Martin Land

On Aug 13, 2008, at 8:37 AM, Ross Feldberg wrote:

After a sabbatic leave I seem to have forgotten all the tricks I once 
knew...

I am trying to make pdf handouts of my lecture slides available to my 
students. But when I try to print handouts either directly from 
Keynote or after first converting the presentation to a pdf document 
the slides (3 per page) are totally unreadable. Converting the 
keynote presentation to Powerpoint and then creating a pdf document 
from Powerpoint gives reasonable sharp output which can be read. Is 
this a flaw inherent to Keynote or am I missing something obvious?

I am using Keynote 3.0.2 (2006). Any suggestions for getting 
reasonable print output?

Ross Feldberg
Dept of Biology
Tufts University

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