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Blakester1987

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Sep 2, 2011
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Hi,

Before I buy an iPad I need some help!


I'm a veterinary student and I take notes in class with my Macbook Pro. I use the presenter notes in Powerpoint, and the "Annotate --> Note" for PDF's (in Preview).


If I purchase an iPad, I want to be able to read my presenter notes at the same time I'm viewing the slide with Powerpoint,
and I want to be able to read my NOTE annotations (not text) at the same time I'm viewing a PDF.

Is there an application for iPad that allows this?
Is the update coming out in the fall going to resolve this problem?

Thanks so much for the help! I could really use it and it seems like people on this forum really know their ****!

Thanks!
Blake
 
I used to use my iPad everyday for notes and I used the app called 'iAnnotate'

You can read the notes from preview exactly the same as it shows them in preview. You can also export the notes you have made on the app to iTunes which puts them in the same format as the preview notations.

Only thing I didn't like about that app was there was no easy way to draw a box...

It also allows importing and exporting from dropbox accounts which was great, has a built in web downloader, views other formats apart from pdf and a few more things..
 
My recommendation is for the app GoodReader, which is an excellent PDF app for the iPad. I prefer it over iAnnotate, but both are competent apps.
 
goodreader is a wonderful app for pdfs (annotate, bookmark, etc.).

keynote apparently allows you to view your presenter notes while presenting a slide to the audience. i will give it a test run sometime this week in preparation for a lecture, so i can provide more detail then.
 
palpatine said:
goodreader is a wonderful app for pdfs (annotate, bookmark, etc.).

keynote apparently allows you to view your presenter notes while presenting a slide to the audience. i will give it a test run sometime this week in preparation for a lecture, so i can provide more detail then.
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I was wondering if there was a way of doing this without having to plug in the iPad to another monitor.
 
Blakester1987 said:
I was wondering if there was a way of doing this without having to plug in the iPad to another monitor.
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another monitor? are you asking if the ipad can wirelessly transmit the information on the screen while giving a keynote presentation? i am afraid i don't know the answer to that question.
 
No, I'm asking if there is a way to see presenter notes (since this is how I take notes in class) with just the iPad. No monitor.

this is so I can see the slide and the notes I took about the slide at the same time, for studying purposes.
 
Blakester1987 said:
No, I'm asking if there is a way to see presenter notes (since this is how I take notes in class) with just the iPad. No monitor.

this is so I can see the slide and the notes I took about the slide at the same time, for studying purposes.
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This is a people question and not a technical one. The instructor can generate a PDF of his slides with his presenter notes. Will he do it? I don't know.
 
Hahahaha,

I don't know how to phrase this.

I am using the space below to take notes during class. I've attached an image.

http://imgur.com/T69DX

Is there a program that will allow me view the presenter notes that I have taken along side of the slide without a display cable?
 
Blakester1987 said:
Hahahaha,

I don't know how to phrase this.

I am using the space below to take notes during class. I've attached an image.

http://imgur.com/T69DX

Is there a program that will allow me view the presenter notes that I have taken along side of the slide without a display cable?
Click to expand...

i guess i don't understand what you are asking. if you want to view the slide and presenter notes on the screen at the same time, then i believe keynote can do this (perhaps someone here can chime in about this). display cables have nothing to do with anything, unless you are displaying your notes on a projector or something.
 
Blakester1987 said:
I am using the space below to take notes during class. I've attached an image.

http://imgur.com/T69DX

Is there a program that will allow me view the presenter notes that I have taken along side of the slide without a display cable?
Click to expand...

I did notice in the App Store a 1-star review that slammed the product for exactly the reason you note. I am surprised by this shortcoming, because presenters like to practice but don't need external video while they are practicing.

Does Keynote's Print options give you a way to include the presenter notes when you print? If so, I believe you could make a PDF file of the presentations with notes.

If you have a Mac, you could move the file to your mac, print the presentation with notes, then move the PDF file back to your iPad. That's an ugly workaround.
 
Blakester1987 said:
Hahahaha,

I don't know how to phrase this.

I am using the space below to take notes during class. I've attached an image.

http://imgur.com/T69DX

Is there a program that will allow me view the presenter notes that I have taken along side of the slide without a display cable?
Click to expand...

I just played around with it by opening a Powerpoint file in Keynote and Docs2Go. Both Apps will display Presenter notes but differently. Docs2Go has a side by side view (Pic1). In Keynote you have to switch between Slide and Presenter view (Pic2 & Pic3).

As a side note Docs2Go doesn't appear to handle pptx files vry well. The PP looks a lot sloppier than the keynote version which i only missing a few fonts.
 
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