HELP! Presentation on MONDAY...Printing presenter notes....they all overlap

I downloaded a Powerpoint presentation to Keynote, and after making changes, went to print the slides with the presenter notes. There are about 30 slides. All of the slides print out fine, but the presenter notes, which appear below each slide, all overlap. (so the notes from the first slide are on EVERY page... the notes from the second slide are on pages 2-30, the notes from the third slide are on pages 3-30, etc.) By the time you get to the end of the slides, the presenter notes are one big jumbled mess...a black messy blob. Please help. I need to present on MONDAY!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 11, 2007 6:54 PM

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Aug 12, 2007 8:18 PM in response to Nikhil Raj

I ended up copying each of the presenter notes to a pages doc. It worked, but Keynote should have a better way of handling this mess. Another thing I considered was to print out the "handout" pages (2 per page) with notes. However, there wasn't enough space to do that. My presenter notes were very long. I only wanted one slide per page with my notes. Thanks for your reply

Aug 13, 2007 7:57 AM in response to wisconsin girl

Glad you got it to work. So I have a question, does the text rollover show up on the screen or just printed?

Although I don't have a powerpoint(created on MS Windows) with presenter notes that were long enough, I was still able to run a little test. I took a presentation created in MS Windows and added long text to every other page's presenter notes(Office 2004) and wasn't able to duplicate your results. At least it doesn't show up on the screen.

I'll see if I can dig up another presentation with long'ish notes.

Good Luck,
N

Aug 22, 2007 4:07 PM in response to stbo

Same problem - when printing slides and notes the notes from the previous page are superimposed on the those of the current page, making the notes illegible.
The Export to PDF option is a partial fix but I don't seem to be able to delete the slide background like I can with the Print function (ie for printing on white paper). Also the settings are unsuitable and cannot be changed. And finally, the Compress PDF option is not available.

The ability to distribute a PDF of my slides and notes is very important for my business. At the moment I regret upgrading to iWork 08.

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