So I have a class that I need to print powerpoint slides out as handouts. All is well except some of them have tiny writing on it. Is there any way to resize the slides so they take up the entire page in the handout view instead of all the free space beside each of them? Thanks for any help

1/16/2008 1:26:51 AM

When you print there's an option to choose the number of slides per page. Choose the number that best fits your application.



[Edited on January 16, 2008 at 1:45 AM. Reason : found a pic]

1/16/2008 1:44:52 AM

While that does help some, there is still alot of room beside each slide
I would like to use. Is that possible?

1/16/2008 8:22:21 AM

do you want your students to be able to take notes on the handouts?

1/16/2008 9:00:33 AM

That just means theres too much info of the slides.

1/16/2008 9:20:13 AM

Sounds like he wants there to be zero padding between where one slide stops and the other starts.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070919113519AAg9LJb

1/16/2008 9:43:06 AM

sorry for not being clear but jbtilley had the right idea. It seems there is no easy way to do, just fit to page which still leaves gaps between the slides. Thanks for the help, but let me know if any one figures out how to removes the spaces between slides.

1/16/2008 12:24:01 PM

I seriously thought this thread was going to be a question about working part time at a company called Random Power.

1/16/2008 5:43:29 PM

I find this annoying too, so I print the PPT to PDF, one slide per page as normal. Then open the PDF in Acrobat Reader and print with multiple sheets per page to the printer from there. Acrobat will allow you to put zero padding between the pages.

1/16/2008 5:53:59 PM

Quote :

"I find this annoying too, so I print the PPT to PDF, one slide per page as normal. Then open the PDF in Acrobat Reader and print with multiple sheets per page to the printer from there. Acrobat will allow you to put zero padding between the pages."

I do something similar, and have almost no margin between slides (6/page) - print the full slides (not handouts) to pdfcreator, but in the printer settings say multiple pages per sheet, and set it as 6 (or whatever you want). then you get a pdf of what you want, just print that pdf normally to your actual printer.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

1/16/2008 10:17:24 PM

if you have a decent printer it should let you do this in the driver

1/16/2008 10:28:23 PM

Yea agentlion solution seems to work the best. Unfortunately my teacher has decided to give us just the pdf of the already printed slides. So looks like im screwed either way.

1/17/2008 12:19:22 PM