Right-click it and set as default.ģ) Microsoft’s Powerpoint can’t do this either. Go to “System->Administration->Printing.” You should see the PDF printer. It’s set to print in “grayscale” by default.Ģ) You can also set the PDF printer as the default printer in Ubuntu. Voila! You can now create PDFs of handouts in Impress.ġ) You can set the printer to print in color by clicking on the “Properties” tab. Now, go check the “PDF” folder in your “home” directory and you should see a PDF there with the handouts. Then choose “handout” in the middle of the window and how many slides you want per page: Once you’ve done that, go up to “File->Print”. The next part is simply to set up your handouts in OpenOffice Impress: The last line simply restarts the CUPS printer. If you don’t do that, you can’t access the printer. Third, and this is the part that is difficult to do from anywhere other than the command line, it adds access to the CUPS PDF printer to your User. Second, it makes a directory in your “home” directory called “PDF,” which is where the PDF printer will send your documents when they are printed. What does the above do? First, it installs the CUPS PDF printer. Sudo chmod u+x,a+x,+s /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf This is actually quite easy, though I recommend you do it from the command line as it is even easier this way. So, here’s another Ubuntu how to.įirst, you need to install a PDF printer in Ubuntu. It’s actually quite simple, but it took me about 30 minutes to figure out. However, there is a way to work around this limitation. You can customize the handouts, which is a very nice feature, but you can’t save them to PDF. You can save your slides in Impress as PDFs, but if you want to put multiple slides on one page with lines for notes for your students (which is what I do with my discussion notes), there isn’t a way to directly export those handouts as PDFs. For those who have never used OpenOffice, one of its greatest features is the built-in ability to save documents as PDFs. I’m not a computer programmer (sometimes I wish I was), so I’m going to guess that implementing the ability to save handouts as PDFs in ’s Impress (OpenOffice’s version of Powerpoint) may be a very challenging programming task.
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