OneNote / PDF 4-up question

[LetItSnow]

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Teachers often provide their lecture notes in a PDF with 4-up slides/page.... Does anyone have a handy solution for importing that data back into OneNote but converting it back to a 1-up type of presentation?

 

[cowgirla]

It might be easier to just ask the prof to post it twice, once the usual way and once in either the 1 slide pdf or just the plain old ppt file so you can choose. I think he'll find its a pretty popular decision, based on the way people in my class function anyway.

 

[LetItSnow]

It might be easier to just ask the prof to post it twice, once the usual way and once in either the 1 slide pdf or just the plain old ppt file so you can choose. I think he'll find its a pretty popular decision, based on the way people in my class function anyway.

Yeah. I had 50:50 success with that last semester. Decided it might be beneficial to just post here and see if somebody knew a trick or two.

 

[BlacKAT33]

If they set it to four slides, and you can't change it under the normal print settings that means it is permanent.
Our pdf's are all posted as 1 slide per page, or 3 slides with type writer enabled notes.
If they post it 1 slide per page, you can still change print settings to print multiple pages at a time. But if you've already gone into the print settings and checked, it must permanently be locked on 4 🙁
pdf's are so annoying compared to powerpoint.

 

[StartingoverVet]

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[cuitlamiztli]

I adjust the size to where I want it and take screen snippets of every slide or every 2 slides. It's not too bad unless the PDFs are super long.

 

[LetItSnow]

I adjust the size to where I want it and take screen snippets of every slide or every 2 slides. It's not too bad unless the PDFs are super long.

Yeah. I considered that. But it seemed tedious to do that repeatedly.

I also looked at http://ciju.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/splitting-pdf-slides-4-up-to-1-up/ but didn't have any luck getting it to work. Got it to run successfully and produce output, but it was blank output and I haven't figured out why.

Hrm.

 

[LetItSnow]

After a fair bit of hunting..... these tools appear to do the trick very, very nicely.

Briss: http://briss.sourceforge.net/
Pdfscissors: http://www.pdfscissors.com/

On the whole, I think I prefer the latter; it just feels a bit quicker for me to use. But they're both free and they both do the job.

Figured it might be worth something to other people to know about these too.....