From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Hendy Subject: Re: Exporting a presentation to both slides and handouts? Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:26:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <580EE13B-CE44-41EF-92FA-52E4EC93D235@polytechnique.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44294) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8AhG-0007eA-Na for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:26:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8Ah6-0000xx-IX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:26:26 -0400 Received: from mail-bk0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:43115) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8Ah6-0000xK-8a for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:26:16 -0400 Received: by bkwq16 with SMTP id q16so2650536bkw.0 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:26:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jacek Generowicz Cc: Alan Schmitt , emacs-orgmode Mode On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Jacek Generowicz wrote: > At Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:14:00 +0100, > Alan Schmitt wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm finishing a presentation with org-mode which is exported as >> beamer slides. I would like to also export it as a handouts, which >> basically means changing a couple lines in the preamble. > > On a related note, I'm looking to produce both slides (sparse) and > notes (dense) from a single org file. (Something akin to S5's handout > class, though I would be happy for the slides and notes to be > completely separate products, as long as their contents are extracted > from the same org source). > > Any hints on org mode goodies which can help with this sort of thing? > So are you just looking for something to automate this? It seems that the generation of the beamer slides themselves are the hard part and, as you say, it would be pretty easy to tweak the resultant .tex file to give you handouts. Would that work? You can add LaTeX class options to org-mode, and so you could export once for the beamer presentation and then export again with the handout class option added? #+latex_class_options: [handout] which produces: \documentclass[handout]{beamer} in the resultant file. I haven't made handouts before, but this email got me interested. It seems that all this option does is "flatten" the transitions and overlays and whatnot? From there it seems one still needs to do something to the file to layout the handouts n-up on a page. So... if you don't have overlays, perhaps you don't need to do anything to the presentation at all. Just use a new document to layout the handouts how you want? I also stumbled upon pdfjam, which looks like it aims to accomplish this step more easily: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/firth/software/pdfjam They have this example: --- A useful application of pdfjam is for producing a handout from a file of presentation slides. For slides made with the standard 4:3 aspect ratio a nice 6-up handout on A4 paper can be made by pdfjam --nup 2x3 --frame true --noautoscale false --delta "0.2cm 0.3cm" \ --scale 0.95 myslides.pdf --outfile myhandout.pdf --- Good luck! John