LaTeX Handouts Builder

Build Script for Latex-beamer based course handouts. This tool can be used to build "course handout books" using multiple LaTeX beamer slides sets.

What is it does:

• Build multiple LaTeX beamer slide sets with one command: python build.py
• Convert the slides to a printer-friendly format (no slide transitions, 6 slides per page, less colors)
• Build a main "course handouts book" with all the slides (one chapter per beamer slide set, title page, introduction, table of contents,...)
• Create a .zip archive with all the documents

Book structure:

Title page, introduction, table of contents

One chapter per slide set (three printer-friendly versions: no slides transitions & less colors)

• three slides per page with room for notes (example)
• six slides per page (example)
• two slides per page (example)

Dependencies:

• pdflatex - PDF output from TeX
• pdfjam - A shell script for manipulating PDF files

Typical output:

The following files will be processed:
 1. chap1.tex
 2. chap2.tex
 3. chap3.tex
 4. chap4.tex
 5. chap5.tex
 6. chap6.tex
 7. chap7.tex
 8. chap8.tex
 9. ExampleHandoutsBook.tex

1/43 pdflatex chap1
2/43 pdflatex chap1
3/43 pdfjam-slides6up chap1.pdf --nup 2x3 --suffix 6pp -q
4/43 mv chap1.pdf ../Handouts
5/43 mv chap1-6pp.pdf ../Handouts
6/43 pdflatex chap2
7/43 pdflatex chap2
8/43 pdfjam-slides6up chap2.pdf --nup 2x3 --suffix 6pp -q
9/43 mv chap2.pdf ../Handouts
10/43 mv chap2-6pp.pdf ../Handouts
...
36/43 pdflatex chap8
37/43 pdflatex chap8
38/43 pdfjam-slides6up chap8.pdf --nup 2x3 --suffix 6pp -q
39/43 mv chap8.pdf ../Handouts
40/43 mv chap8-6pp.pdf ../Handouts
41/43 pdflatex ExampleHandoutsBook
42/43 pdflatex ExampleHandoutsBook
Output written to: ExampleHandoutsBook.zip
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