4 slides per page?

Great workaround, braintoniq!

You should be able to save the 4-up layout setting as a preset in the Print dialog. Go to Print, select Layout in the drop-down menu, and choose 4 as you describe. Next, in the Presets drop-down menu, select "Save As" and select a name. You can then select that preset immediately when you want to create 4-up PDFs and do the creation in one step (rather than the PDF-to-PDF two-step version).

I have "Keynote 2-up" and "Keynote 4-up" presets defined for creating handouts from my lecture notes; they work nicely, and it's much easier than trying to remember to reset all the different options each time.

braintoniq,

You can also use the "Layout" drop-down menu item from within Keynote, no need to do all the stuff with the pdfs. From Layout, you can choose 2, 4, 6 or whatever, to a page.

denisw

Hi Denis --

Unfortunately, that doesn't work. It looks like it should, but it still prints tiny little slides in that Layout selection. This is a real annoying problem. I can't IMAGINE who came up with a print output option with tiny little slides running down the left side of a page. Who would use this setting?!?! It's worthless.

Braintoniq -- I also tried your workaround and couldn't get that to work either. Am I doing something wrong?

I am beginning to regret leaving PowerPoint...

oops. braintoniq -- I got yours to work. Sorry. Good solution, but certainly NOT easy and quick...

thanks for posting it, though

Additional point. You don't have to go through a PDF. You can use your saved layout to print directly to a printer with 4 slides per page.