[Ipe-discuss] "Handout mode" for presentation PDFS?

[Otfried Cheong]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023, at 15:05, Jacob Barandes via Ipe-discuss wrote:
> Beamer has a "handout mode" that "flattens" one's PDF presentation so 
> that each slide is revealed all at once. That way a presentation that 
> has 15 slides has just 15 PDF pages in total, rather than ~100 pages to 
> handle all the step-by-step transitions within each slide. This makes 
> it much more convenient to share PDF presentations with people by email.
>
> Is there any way to flatten an Ipe presentation in a similar way?

The equivalent to Beamer's handout mode is implemented in Ipe in the ipetoipe program.

Run 

ipetoipe -pdf -markedview presentation.pdf handouts.pdf

to create handouts for your presentation.  This generates a PDF file that contains only the "marked" views from your presentation.   If you haven't done any marking, then this call will export the *last* view of *every* page - but you can actually fully control what happens by unmarking some of the pages or by marking views as needed.   You can mark views and pages using the checkboxes next to the view and page counter. 

Cheers,
Otfried