[plug] OO PRESENTATION

[W.Kenworthy]

OO sucks big time at this.  With later versions (2.x) it can be made to
work, but you get some small images and huge borders and no notes area -
looks wimpy.

In order to get a similar slick product to what PPT produces I had to
add a slide after every page containing the notes lines etc, then print
it as a postscript file (one slide per page).  I then fed it through a
script below to arrange it correctly on a sheet (6 per page) and create
a pdf for it.
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#!/bin/bash

pstops -d
'6:0L at .33(20.75cm,2cm)+1L at 0.33(10.65cm,2cm)+2L at .33(20.75cm,10.5cm)+3L at 0.33(10.65cm,10.5cm)+4L at .33(20.75cm,19cm)+5L at 0.33(10.65cm,19cm)' $1 a0.ps
pstops '1:0U(21.6cm,28cm)' a0.ps a1.ps
rm a0.ps
mv a1.ps $1
ps2pdf $1
echo done!
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Worked well, except some graphics took forever to print compared to doze
- I suspect its the printer drivers rather than OO related.


On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 14:28 +0900, Alex Polglaze wrote:
> G'day All,
> 
> Using OO Presentation and wanting to print all the slides as a Handout. 
> There are 13 slides
> 
> Problem is this;
> 
> I have set the handout to be 4 slides per page. I can print the first 
> page of the handout but not subsequent pages, by highlighting the 
> handout screen and telling it to print "Selection".
> 
> If I just tell it to PRINT, I get all slides full size at 1 slide per page.
> 
> Any body got an idea how I can fix this, please?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Alex
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