Phy 101 Handout
Giuseppina Worster
I use PPT 2013 to create documents and would like to print them 2 slides per page in color - two 8.5 X 11 slides per 11 X 17 page (pdf). I have tried everything I can think of, have searched Microsoft and the forum (and Googled in general) and cannot get the slides to use more than 2/3 of the available space (see attached image). So much wasted space, with the slides being too small to really be useful.
Does anyone have any ideas that will work? I could save each slide as an image and paste that image onto a Word doc or into a ledger-sized slide, but am hoping Microsoft finally figured out we would like some control over creating our own handout layouts.
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Using beamer, I want to define an environment that does not display in handout mode. I would such an environment both because it gives my documents a better structure and because it is easier to put large chucks of material into an environment than using something like \only... multiple times.
In handout mode this does exactly what I want. In beamer mode, this works well most of the time but it does not do what I want when the Lecture environment contains material that should be displayed on "earlier" slides. For example, consider:
The problem is not with your definition but with your use of \pause. Commenting out the Lecture environment from your first slide still does not show the \only text, because the previous \pause command prevents that being read. Instead the first \pause can be replaced by \onslide... or similary and a later \pause:
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I want to use the exact same file for my beamer presentation and handout. I do not like the need to comment out lines in order to create the handout or presentation (my current solution), nor do I want to have multiple files with an \input command. I realized that I can have a link (I work in linux or bsd) pointing to my main file, say
This is all nice in theory, but in practice I have no idea how to do this. I usually have either [handout] or [beamer] in my \documentclass line and I don't know how to combine that with my desired use of \jobname.
My answer to this question came from exactly this situation. The code is there, I shan't repeat that, but I'll try to explain what it does so that you can see if it's worth clicking through to that question.
My solution is exactly what you outline in your first paragraph. I have a main file that contains all the code, say seminar.tex, and then a set of symlinks which all point to this file and are of the form seminar.beamer.tex, seminar.handout.tex and the same for trans or article if appropriate. The class that I load is actually a wrapper class which looks at various parameters - both the \jobname and any passed to it from the document - to decide which real class to load (and with what options). Thus the start of my real document is something like:
beamer tells it to load the beamer class, defaults sets up some stuff that I almost always use. Then it looks at the \jobname to see what type of document it is: beamer, handout, etc, and passes the appropriate option to the beamer class.
It doesn't actually need all the symlinks to still work. Since you can reset the jobname via the commandline, you could just do pdflatex -jobname=seminar.beamer.tex seminar.tex to get the right version compiled.
Here's my workflow for this sort of thing. It differs quite a lot from your idea, but it achieves more or less the same goal. [edit: it differs so much that your question excludes this sort of answer. But other people looking for similar solutions might find this acceptable]
But what if I accidentally compile the content.tex? this will break because it doesn't have a document class declaration. I use my editor of choice's multiple documents capabilities: I specify that the master document for content.tex is presentation.tex. Then compiling content actually compiles the presentation.
I guess I could make a makefile that runs pdflatex on both, but I don't need my handout compiled as often as my presentation: I'm often playing with overlays and compulsively recompiling to check a particular slide transition looks how I want...
I extended this a bit with a script (my proficiency in bash is quite low, probably not optimal) to either generate a handout or a regular version without overriding the generated pdfs (basically a handout version and a regular version with \pause enabled, amongst other tricks I do):
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EDIT_1: Sorry for the confusion, but the question was about how to increase the number of slides per a handout page, rather than the number of handout pages. Thank you anyway. It would be much appreciated if you could also consider answering the edited question.