Export Beamer doc to 2 slides per page

Question

I'm a total LaTeX/beamer newbie looking for a way to export a slide deck I created into a sort of "book" form. I tried "handout" but that didn't seem to be what I'm looking for.

Basically, I want to create a LETTER sized document with 2 frames on each page. Seems simple, but I'm having a hard time finding examples of doing anything similar online. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

try this:

\documentclass[handout]{beamer}
  \usepackage{pgfpages}
\mode<handout>{\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=black!20}}
\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[letterpaper,border shrink=5mm]
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
Frame A
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
Frame B
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
Frame C
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
Frame D
\end{frame}
\end{document}

the key package is pgfpages here with option 2 on 1 so that two frames per page are printed. I added some background color to show where the frames are actually placed. See the Beamer User Guide section 4.6.2 for more options (and section 58 of the PGF manual for even more options)