Digitizing Your PDD

Printing the Presentation

When you print a presentation, you have several options. You can print all the slides, the current slide, or a selection of slides. Selections can be comma separated or dash separated, i.e., 2, 3, 5-9.

You can choose the format of the printed output.

• Slides — prints a single page per slide on 11 x 8 1/2 paper.

• Notes Pages — prints a single page of notes on 8 1/2 x 11 paper .

• Outline — prints the outline of the presentation on 8 1/2 x 11 paper .

• Handouts — The most popular option for handouts is to print the presentation three slides per page. This option prints three slides down the left margin and a lined area to the right of each slide on which to take notes.

If you choose to print two slides per page, each page will contain half-sheet views of two consecutive slides. Printing six or nine slides per page will print six (or nine) equally sized consecutive slides on each page. These options don't include space for note-taking.

To give definition to printed slides, you can choose to frame the slides. This prints a simple box around each slide.

If you are printing a color presentation on a black and white printer, the printer will interpret all the colors as shades of gray. Another choice is to click the Pure black and white printer option. The printer then will eliminate all shading. You will lose detail, leaving only text and the outline of graphics.

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