#112 Making a handout.

[Anonymous]

[khchoi@jaist.ac.jp]

I wonder how to make a handout for a slide based on
the prosper package. Usually, I prefer to make a (4
slides per a page) handout to give it to audience or to
see it for verification.

I use
- psnup in (redhat) linux operatating system
- supported printing menu in Win XP
to make a handout.

My problem is that when I make a slide using the prosper
package, I have to change its scale to make an
appropriate (e.g., 4 slides per a page) handout. Without
such a change, the resulting handout would miss, for
example, the bottom part of slides, where a date or a
page number is shown.

Does anybody have the same problem? What is your
solution?

Thanks in advance.

[Simon Anders]

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No, you don't have to rescale whithin prosper, because psnup
has an option to include a margin.

I have just created a handout for my A4 slides using:

psnup -l -4 -pa4 -m10 compl.ps

Make sure to use the appropriate options:

"-l" switches to landscape mode, so that the slides are
ordered correectly.

"-4" puts, of course, 4 slides on apage

"-pa4" switches the output paper size to A4

"-m10" adds a margin of 10 don't-know-what-unit, but seems
to be about 7 mm. For my printer that's enough to show all
footlines. (psnup makes everything a bit smaller to
accomplish the margin)

HTH,
Simon