beamer-slides-with-notes.pdf

beamer-slides-with-notes.tex

\documentclass[12pt]{beamer}

\usepackage{pgfpages}

% These slides also contain speaker notes. You can print just the slides,
% just the notes, or both, depending on the setting below. Comment out the want
% you want.

%\setbeameroption{hide notes} % Only slides
%\setbeameroption{show only notes} % Only notes
\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=right} % Both

% To give a presentation with the Skim reader (http://skim-app.sourceforge.net) on OSX so
% that you see the notes on your laptop and the slides on the projector, do the following:
% 
% 1. Generate just the presentation (hide notes) and save to slides.pdf
% 2. Generate onlt the notes (show only nodes) and save to notes.pdf
% 3. With Skim open both slides.pdf and notes.pdf
% 4. Click on slides.pdf to bring it to front.
% 5. In Skim, under "View -> Presentation Option -> Synhcronized Noted Document"
%    select notes.pdf.
% 6. Now as you move around in slides.pdf the notes.pdf file will follow you.
% 7. Arrange windows so that notes.pdf is in full screen mode on your laptop
%    and slides.pdf is in presentation mode on the projector.

% Give a slight yellow tint to the notes page
\setbeamertemplate{note page}{\pagecolor{yellow!5}\insertnote}\usepackage{palatino}

\title{How to make Beamer slides with notes}
\author{Andrej Bauer\\University of Ljubljana}
\date{\small Planet Earth}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \titlepage

  \note[item]{Thank the audience for being awake.}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}

  \begin{itemize}
  \item Here are
  \item some very boring bullets
  \item about nothing.
  \end{itemize}
  
  \note[item]{Note that this slide is boring.}

  \note[item]{Observe that there are no actual bullets here.}

  \note[item]{Future work: add another bullet.}
\end{frame}


\end{document}

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks, this is very helpful.

Dear Andrej
This has saved me hours of frustration. Thanks.

Good stuff. Thanks!

Finally! I've looking up for this for quite sometime! Nice job!

Great Andrej! Thanks so much for such a simple, easy-to-use, yet really powerful solution!

Thank you very much andrejbauer,
But how do I center the text vertically on the second screen?

I replaced
\setbeamertemplate{note page}{\pagecolor{yellow!5}\insertnote}
with
\setbeamertemplate{note page}{\pagecolor{yellow!5}\vfill\insertnote\vfill}
and the result was good.

Thank you very much for this, andrejbauer.

Thank you!!

Hi, the Skim cannot load note. Is there anyone can help me? Thanks in advance.

Hi, the Skim cannot load note. Is there anyone can help me? Thanks in advance.

@happsky make sure your notes have exactly the same number of pages as your slides, in principle this means every frame should have a \note even if it is empty!

I have a lot of slides and some of the do not have notes. I am also using sections and these do not have notes either. As the result, my notes document does not have the same number of pages as the slides and I could not synchronize. If there is a way to instruct beamer to always generate notes pages, as it does when they are attached to the right of the page? Thanks!

Is it possible to use it also in windows?

@mehdi-mahnam I do not know, it depends on whether there is a PDF viewer on Windows that has the same functionality.

Is it possible to use it also in windows?

@mehdi-mahnam Yes, there is an alternative.

There is a PDF viewer written in Python pympress which is a dual-screen reader that offers the user presentation mode where there is a timer, current and next slide and more. It is portable so it can be used on Linux, macOS and Windows.

Is it possible to use it also in windows?

@mehdi-mahnam Yes, there is an alternative.

There is a PDF viewer written in Python pympress which is a dual-screen reader that offers the user presentation mode where there is a timer, current and next slide and more. It is portable so it can be used on Linux, macOS and Windows.

That works! thanks.

I'm using https://dspdfviewer.danny-edel.de/ which also works just fine :)

I created notes.pdf and sldies.pdf. I opened both with skim 1.5.4 then I choose under view presentation options but there is no way I can select the file note.pdf? Hence it does not work me. Help please

To repeat frame titles on your notes, use

\setbeamertemplate{note page}{%
	\pagecolor{yellow!5}
	\vfill
	\begin{minipage}[c][\textheight][t]{\textwidth}
		{\usebeamerfont{frametitle}\usebeamercolor[fg]{frametitle}\insertframetitle\par}
		\insertnote
	\end{minipage}
}

Is it possible to use it also in windows?

@mehdi-mahnam Yes, there is an alternative.

There is a PDF viewer written in Python pympress which is a dual-screen reader that offers the user presentation mode where there is a timer, current and next slide and more. It is portable so it can be used on Linux, macOS and Windows.

I tried installing pympress in macOS but I get this error after homebrew is being updated.
`You should change the ownership of these directories to your user.
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig /usr/local/share/info /usr/local/share/man/man3 /usr/local/share/man/man5

And make sure that your user has write permission.
chmod u+w /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig /usr/local/share/info /usr/local/share/man/man3 /usr/local/share/man/man5`

I can't change the ownership of these directories. Can anyone help?

@AshokTak please report your issue at the official Cimbali/pympress repository. In my experience, the maintainer is pretty fast in responding there. Be sure to include more details on your system, e.g. Homebrew version, pympress version etc.

@vezeli Thanks for the recommendation. Tested pympress in windows, it is a very nice free beamer presentation tool!

Is it possible to use it also in windows?

@mehdi-mahnam Yes, there is an alternative.

There is a PDF viewer written in Python pympress which is a dual-screen reader that offers the user presentation mode where there is a timer, current and next slide and more. It is portable so it can be used on Linux, macOS and Windows.

Hello @andrejbauer, Thank you for the solution. Do you know how can I use notes with framebreak?