1 00:00:00 --> 00:00:06 Welcome to this spoken tutorial of LibreOffice Impress - Printing a Presentation. 2 00:00:07 --> 00:00:11 In this tutorial we will learn about the various options for printing - 3 00:00:12 --> 00:00:16 Slides Handouts Notes and Outline 4 00:00:17 --> 00:00:25 Here we are using GNU/Linux as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4. 5 00:00:26 --> 00:00:29 There are times when you would need to print hard copies of your presentation. 6 00:00:30 --> 00:00:35 For example, you may want to give copies of your presentation to your audience for later reference. 7 00:00:36 --> 00:00:40 So first, let us open our presentation Sample Impress by double-clicking on it. 8 00:00:41 --> 00:00:49 To take prints of your slides, click on File and Print. Alternately, we can press CTRL and P keys together. 9 00:00:50 --> 00:00:53 To know about the settings under General and Options tabs,<PAUSE> 10 00:00:54 --> 00:01:00 please see the tutorial on Viewing and printing Documents in the LibreOffice Writer series. 11 00:01:01 --> 00:01:08 In the General tab, under Print, in the Document field, we see various options which are unique to Impress. 12 00:01:09 --> 00:01:13 These options allow us to take prints of our slides in the desired format - 13 00:01:14 --> 00:01:20 Slides Handouts Notes and Outline. We will choose the Slides option. 14 00:01:21 --> 00:01:25 Now lets click on the LibreOffice Impress tab. 15 00:01:26 --> 00:01:32 Here you can choose the parts of the slide that you want to print, the print colours and the size. 16 00:01:33 --> 00:01:39 Under Contents, let’s select Slide name, Date and time and Hidden pages. 17 00:01:40 --> 00:01:47 As the text describes, these will print the name of the slide, the date and time and hidden pages, if any. 18 00:01:48 --> 00:01:51 Then under Color, let’s select Grayscale. 19 00:01:52 --> 00:01:58 As the text describes, the other options will print the slide in its original colour or in black-and-white. 20 00:01:59 --> 00:02:08 And under Size, let’s select Fit to printable page. You can explore the other size options in the libreoffice impress tab on your own. 21 00:02:09 --> 00:02:16 Depending on the purpose for which you are taking the prints, various options are available in the Page Layout tab. 22 00:02:17 --> 00:02:21 Let’s say you want to have a number of slides in the same page of the printout. 23 00:02:22 --> 00:02:27 So, select Pages per sheet. By default, it prints 1 slide per page. 24 00:02:28 --> 00:02:31 Here is a small preview of the page. 25 00:02:32 --> 00:02:37 Click on the drop-down arrow and choose the number of pages that you want to print per page. 26 00:02:38 --> 00:02:46 If we choose 2 then in the preview, we can see 2 pages.If we choose 6 then in the preview, we can see 6 pages. 27 00:02:47 --> 00:02:54 Checking Draw a border around each page option, creates a black border around each page while printing. 28 00:02:55 --> 00:02:58 This makes the page look more attractive. 29 00:02:59 --> 00:03:05 The next option, Brochure, allows us to print the slides as brochures, for easy binding. 30 00:03:06 --> 00:03:12 However, in this case we will not choose this option. You can explore this option on your own later. 31 00:03:13 --> 00:03:17 Ensure that all the check boxes in the Options tab are unchecked. 32 00:03:18 --> 00:03:24 These check boxes are for special purposes, which we will not discuss in this tutorial. 33 00:03:25 --> 00:03:27 Now click on the Print button. 34 00:03:28 --> 00:03:34 If the printer is configured correctly, the printer should start printing now.<PAUSE> 35 00:03:35 --> 00:03:40 Next, lets learn about the Handouts option.Click on File and Print. 36 00:03:41 --> 00:03:46 And in the General tab, under Print, in the Document field, choose Handout. 37 00:03:47 --> 00:03:56 By default,there are 4 slides per page and the default order is left to right,then down. Leave these unchanged for this presentation. 38 00:03:57 --> 00:04:03 In the LibreOffice Impress tab, you will find that the Size options are disabled. 39 00:04:04 --> 00:04:10 This is because the size of the print is determined by the number of slides in the sheet and size of the sheet. 40 00:04:11 --> 00:04:13 Now click on the Print button. 41 00:04:14 --> 00:04:19 If the printer is configured correctly, the printer should start printing now. 42 00:04:20 --> 00:04:23 Lets go to the first slide and click on the Notes tab. 43 00:04:24 --> 00:04:28 Here we will type in a note - “This is a sample note”. 44 00:04:29 --> 00:04:34 To print your notes, which you typed for your slides, click on File and Print. 45 00:04:35 --> 00:04:40 In the General tab, under Print, in the Document field, choose the Notes option. 46 00:04:41 --> 00:04:47 Look at the preview page on the left.It shows the note you typed at the bottom of the slide. 47 00:04:48 --> 00:04:50 Now click on the LibreOffice Impress tab. 48 00:04:51 --> 00:04:56 Notice that the Size options are not available when we print Notes. 49 00:04:57 --> 00:05:03 Now click on the Print button.If the printer is configured correctly, the printer should start printing now. 50 00:05:04 --> 00:05:12 Lastly, to print the outline of the slides for quick reference during a presentation, click on File and Print. 51 00:05:13 --> 00:05:17 In the General tab, under Print, in the Document field, choose the Outline option. 52 00:05:18 --> 00:05:26 Look at the preview page on the left.It shows the outline or the sequence of your slides with the slide headings and sub-points. 53 00:05:27 --> 00:05:30 Now click on the LibreOffice Impress tab. 54 00:05:31 --> 00:05:36 Notice once again, that Size options are not available when we print Outline. 55 00:05:37 --> 00:05:45 Now click on the Print button.If the printer is configured correctly, the printer should start printing now. 56 00:05:46 --> 00:05:50 With this, we conclude this tutorial where we learnt about printing - 57 00:05:51 --> 00:05:55 Slides, Handouts, Notes and, Outline 58 00:05:56 --> 00:06:01 Try this comprehension test assignment.Create a new presentation. 59 00:06:02 --> 00:06:08 Print only the 2nd slide. 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