Keynote to 2-up B&W PDF
This is probably a completely worthless post for virtually everyone but me or some random person in a Google search a year from now. For a presentation I needed to take a Keynote presentation and convert to 2-up black and white PDF.
I tried several different paths and a hard time getting both the 2-up layout and images converted sharply. Here’s what I ended up doing that worked for me:
- In Keynote, go to File->Print and click the down arrow next to Printer to get the settings on the bottom. On the Keynote tab, do “Print Individual Slides” and select any other options you like.
- Then on the Layout tab, select “Pages per sheet: 2″
- Then click in the bottom left on PDF -> Save as PDF
- Open the PDF in Preview
- In Preview, do Save As with “Format: PDF” and Quartz Filter: “Gray Tone”.
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FYI, in Keynote ’08, when you print there is a choice for printing as a ‘Handout’ and a pulldown for the number of slides per page (from 2-6). It also has other options like borders, lines between slides, etc..
Yeah, I’ve tried that. However, it’s color not black and white, so I’d have to do the PDF color conversion anyways. Also, it gives you slides that only use half the page and leave the other half for notes. I really want true 2-up slides.
I used this as a reference a couple of times now… thx!
Thanks for this writeup. Any idea why it would ignore the 2-per-page setting?
@Sri: just doesn’t work that way as far as I can tell :)
Another technique (that doesn’t involve interaction with Preview after generating the PDF)…
http://twitter.com/jeffscottbrown/status/4808650898
This is fantastic stuff. Thanks for taking the time to document it! It saved me so much time…
This was exactly what I was looking for today. . . March 2012! Thanks!
Thanks for the post. You just saved few hours of googling and searching