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Converting slides to .pdf ... ?

Does anyone have "Best Practices" for converting a Notebook or Slide show to a .pdf ... ?

I have several Notebooks used in Slide mode for a recent presentation. I wanted to post them as .pdf's but could not get the Mathematica functionality to generate anything useful. The pagination was completely wrong, generating both excess pages by a factor of two or more and page breaks at (seemingly random locations in each slide). Attempts to use the Scaling factor truncated some text, and didn't fix the pagination.

At present, I'm generating .cdf's and they look fine, and I look forward to using the full functionality available with .cdf's, someday. But, for the moment .pdf's would be simpler.

Thank you, --Mark
POSTED BY: Mark Tuttle
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I have found that Print Selection... does a much better job at creating multiple-page PDF's than Save Selection As...

In version 9 I have not been able to get useful multiple-page PDF's with Save Selection As... I think Exporting to a PDF file does not help here either, but I have gotten good results with printing to a PDF. This may have been fixed in version 10.

I have not tried slides, just large outputs (say about 15 graphs, each taking a landscape page in a PDF). It normally results in fairly large PDF's (~ 50 M).

Best,

OL.
POSTED BY: Otto Linsuain

Agreed. While the details in the replies have been very helpful, and I feel I could probably get making .pdf's right next time, what is needed is a "Best Practices" procedure. I need more experience before I could compose such a thing. Thank you, -Mark
POSTED BY: Mark Tuttle
David Keith
David Keith
Posted 9 years ago

I sure wish we could do this without providing a one-page proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the process. ;-}
POSTED BY: David Keith

Hi Mark, just a minor correction. What I referred to as page size is actually the paper size. The dialog that sets the paper size is located in File > Printing Settings > Page Setup....
POSTED BY: Larry Adelston

Wow. I explored may paths, but not the combination you suggest. Thank you. -- Mark
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POSTED BY: Larry Adelston

John,

This - page orientation - is one of many variables I explored. I can't claim to have enumerated all possibilities, but tried many. Nothing seems to give satisfactory results. It doesn't have to be perfect, just useful; but I haven't gotten there yet.

Fortunately, the .cdf route seems useful.

Thank you, -- Mark
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POSTED BY: Mark Tuttle

PDF export uses the same settings that would be used during printing. Your notebook has been configured to print in Landscape mode, but the content is not well formatted for Landscape. You can change it to Portrait in the Page Setup dialog (in the File->Print Settings menu).
POSTED BY: John Fultz

I'm not sure what is the best way to go about this. Using the most recent version (that is, version next) I had no problems with pagination in a set of slides I worked on recently.

http://materials.dagstuhl.de/files/15/15251/15251.DanielLichtblau.Slides.pdf

This might be dependent on underlying style sheet; I used one of the standard slide show style sheets and maybe those are better than others for conversion to pdf. Also it might be dependent on platform and underlying method for saving (Save As vs. Print to PDF; I believe I used the latter of those).
POSTED BY: Daniel Lichtblau
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