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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drhfk

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Aug 26, 2007 9:39 AM in response to wisconsin girl

I'm having the exact same problem. Export to .pdf with notes is currently the best workaround. This is a serious bug.

Aug 29, 2007 3:25 AM in response to wisconsin girl

wisconsin girl,

could you please change the title of your topic to

BUG: Printing presenter notes overlap

this will probably help a lot of people finding this topic! It's an too important bug to let go un-noticed.

stbo

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Aug 29, 2007 3:43 AM in response to Ahimsa

Please keep to topic

stbo

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Aug 29, 2007 3:44 AM in response to WillyB_UT

I second that. It's funny though, why there isn't more to be found around the net about this. It seems like a serious bug with a quite important function.

Aug 29, 2007 8:19 PM in response to wisconsin girl

I have the same problem exactly as described. And I also see the problem with Print Preview.

Aug 30, 2007 9:12 AM in response to dbhiebert

Yup, same problem here. How could this nasty bug get past beta and Q&E? Very sloppy Apple. I guess I'm going to have to go back to version 3 just to generate a PDF for my presentation next week.

Sep 11, 2007 1:35 PM in response to Andrew Rodney

Another option is to export a Powerpoint Chart set and then print with notes from there, which I just tried and it works fine.

This is indeed an amazing bug, and especially ironic in view of Edward Tufte telling us that we should be offloading text bullets from the charts and then distributing handouts that provide the spoken text in prose form. This is something for which the speaker notes do a nice job.

Sep 11, 2007 3:58 PM in response to mrokmiritron36

That is exactly what I was trying to do when I came across the bug. I cleared as much text as possible from the slides and pasted then into the notes window. At first I thought it was a bug with the pasting process but found it was any slide with notes.
I keep hoping there will be a fix in the Software Update or at least an acknowledgment of the problem from Apple in the Keynote support section.

Sep 12, 2007 9:23 AM in response to wisconsin girl

Me too. Having the same annoying problem. I'm going to print each slide individually. I sure hope someone from Apple is listening and fixes this problem.

Laura BL

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Sep 19, 2007 7:50 PM in response to Digitrix6

any update on whether this bug has been fixed yet? as is true for others, the proposed end-around didn't work for me, either.

Sep 20, 2007 12:00 AM in response to Laura BL

No updates for keynote seen yet.

This work-around worked for me:

- Export to PDF and then print

By the way: i found out some other bugs with printing: try to print 6 sheets on 1 page.... they way that prints is definetly not the behaviour you want to get.

Oct 29, 2007 3:08 PM in response to WillyB_UT

Apple have just posted a video with tips for printing presentation handouts. OPity they dont mentioon the bug with Notes!
http://www.apple.com/business/videotips/?movie=keynoteprint

Nov 5, 2007 2:49 PM in response to Michael Paine

The note printing problem seems to have been fixed with the latest Keynote (4.0.1)

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