Printing: Maximizing PPT/PDF
 

hmmm, at school when we print we can normally do "Outline" then choose the amounts of slides we want for printing and it'll maximize/blow up the slides to fit the page

At home this doesn't work that way and the slides come out the regular smaller size.... anyone know how to modify or add this feature?

PPT --> Instead of printing "Handouts" under the Print options, choose to print "Slides". You may have to fiddle around with the page orientation under Print Preview.

PDF --> When printing, use "Fit to Printable Area" page scaling, and [v] Auto-Rotate and Center

Okay with PPT (haven't tried PDF yet) I clicked on "Slides" but it won't let me print more than 1 per page... I wanna print 6 slides per page... is that possible?

img]http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/4284/untitledeq5.jpg[/img]

I tried choosing under Print Range 1-6 slides it didn't work :( It prints 1 slide a page for some reason...

If you want to print 6 slides per page, you need to select "Handouts".

But wouldn't make them just regular size? Is there anyway to blow them up like we do at school?

I'm.... sort of confused as to what you want. Do you want to print individual slides blown up, or do you want to print six slides on one page?

http://upload.jetsam.org/scale-to-fit.png

I want 6 slides per page but blown up. From the picture above you see 6 slides per page - but there's a lot of space around the slides. At school when I go to "outline" and all it blows up the slides so that there's little space between/around them

Hmmm, I misinterpreted the initial question. In my experience, the best way you can blow up the slides is to enable "Scale to Fit Paper", and to choose a suitable paper orientation. Choosing to print Outline view prints the presentation as a sort of outline.

I attach a sample PDF output using a random presentation file.

Perhaps what you're looking for is to print it in slide mode, but to specify in your printer layout settings to print 6 pages per sheet.

Okay the problem with your file is that it's already got 6 slides per page. I'm referring to when there's like 1 slide per page or something along those lines and I want it so that there are 6 slides per page. When I do that I can't select "Page Scaling- Fit to Printer's Margins" because I need to choose "Multiple Pages Per Sheet"

For example for PDF I went to this site: http://wiz2.pharm.wayne.edu/psc3210.html

And clicked on "Course Intro" which is in PDF (there's a lot of PPT - we get more lectures that way)

If you look at the other picture, the slides aren't blown bigger and I used a "border" on purpose to show this
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/6982/untitledwr6.jpg
^BTW it says "PrimoPDF" I did try with my own printer same problem- just to lazy to recreate Screenshot


And now for the PPT Example I took Antibody Structure and Function
For PPT when I go to "Print" under "Print What" if I choose Outline View, Slides or Notes page I can't select "Slides Per Page"
So I'm forced to click on "Handouts"

In the next example I did "Handouts", "6 slide Per Page", "Scale to Fit Paper", "Frame Slides" (so you can see how they are showing relative to paper size) - as you can see the slides are far from blown to "fit the page"
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8457/untitlednn7.jpg

Like I said in my previous post, set Powerpoint to print slides, but tell your printer to print 6 pages per sheet. It's a PRINTER setting, independent of the application. Obviously, this varies across printers, but should look something like this:

http://upload.jetsam.org/pages-per-sheet.png

http://upload.jetsam.org/pages-per-sheet-hp.png

I attach your given examples (instead of my printer, I instructed Adobe to create a PDF with 6 slides per page).

Okay I see now what you're saying... now I guess my printer may be the problem... I don't see anything that allows me to customize slides or pages per print...

screeny:
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/2116/untitledec1.jpg

Not that kind of Properties under your list of printers. It's under "Properties" when you hit File -> Print, right next to the printer name. (HP calls it Printing Preferences, under the General tab).

OMG IT'S WORKING!!!!

Yeah THANKS!!!!