[Tex/LaTex] Beamer: print slides and notes on A4 paper correctly

Question

Following up on this question, I have the MWE example below, that works well except for when I want to print the resulting pdf, which becomes completely shrunk … so small that I cannot read the letters. I cannot hand this in!

What is the problem here? I have tried every possibility, as you can see in the MWE (not specifying the A4 paper, using letterpaper instead, play with margins in cm and inches…)

This is the MWE:

\documentclass[handout, ignorenonframetext, xcolor={dvipsnames,table}]{beamer}
\usepackage{etex}
\reserveinserts{28}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[]
%\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[a4paper]
%\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[letterpaper]
%\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[a4paper,border shrink=5mm]
%\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[letterpaper,border shrink=0.5in]
\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=bottom} % Beamer manual, section 19.3
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=pink}

\usepackage{lmodern}

\setbeamertemplate{note page}[plain] % Beamer manual, section 19.1
\newlength{\parskipbackup}
\setlength{\parskipbackup}{\parskip}
\newlength{\parindentbackup}
\setlength{\parindentbackup}{\parindent}
\newcommand{\baselinestretchbackup}{\baselinestretch}

\usetemplatenote{

  %\insertslideintonotes{0.3}%

  \rmfamily \scriptsize%
  \setlength{\parindent}{1em} \setlength{\parskip}{1ex}%
  \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1}%

  \insertnote%

  \setlength{\parskip}{\parskipbackup}%
  \setlength{\parindent}{\parindentbackup}%
  \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{\baselinestretchbackup}%
}



\begin{document}


\begin{frame}
Title slide
\note{this is a note}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
This is the first slide
\note{this is another note}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

The pdf produced looks flawless on screen:

But look at the print preview (which is printed in the same way)… and this happens with every program I have tried, in both Ubuntu and Windows (Acrobat included), so it's a LaTeX problem…

Please help!

Note I want both the pdf on screen and when printed to look as it should… I don't want to enlarge the pdf on screen so it is printed correctly…

Answer 1

I guess, this can be solved by applying appropriate printing properties. For example in Adobe Reader select the Fit option and it prints nicely.

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EDIT:

For Okular, try the Trim Margins option.