[Tex/LaTex] Beamer slide navigation does not work when including notes on the left

beamernavigationnotes

I have the following MWE below that works perfectly, but to my horror, the awesome navigation circles at the top of the slides do not work (using pdf visualization programs in Ubuntu like Okular and impressive) when I show the notes, only when I hide them.

I really need the navigation to work when adding notes, am I doing something wrong in my code?? Or is it supposed to behave like that (BIG bug IMHO)??

MWE, a really basic slideshow presentation with notes… (really strange that something doesn't work properly at this level of simplicity, does it really have to behave this way?? hard to think there is anything wrong with the code):

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\setbeameroption{%
    %hide notes
    show notes on second screen=left
    }
\usetheme{Singapore}

\begin{document}    
    \section{Background}
    \subsection{first stuff}
    \begin{frame}
        This is the first slide
        \note{this is the first note}
    \end{frame} 
    \subsection{more stuff}
    \begin{frame}
        This is the second slide
        \note{this is the second note}
    \end{frame}
\end{document}

I also want to export the same presentation for handouts with the notes at the bottom, with the following code (note the first lines are different), here the slide navigation links do not work either…

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

\usetheme{Singapore}

\begin{document}    
    \section{Background}
    \subsection{first stuff}
    \begin{frame}
        This is the first slide
        \note{this is the first note}
    \end{frame} 
    \subsection{more stuff}
    \begin{frame}
        This is the second slide
        \note{this is the second note}
    \end{frame}
\end{document}

Probably the sole reason why I make the presentations with Beamer and not PowerPoint is because of the navigation, but if I cannot keep it when I need to present with notes…

EDIT
Please check this other question that continues from this present question's accepted answer.

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Continued from comments:

I fount the original code in beamerouterthememiniframes.sty and replace just one line. See the commented-out line and its next line. It leads to a bar in the old position and a new bar exceeding the right margin of the (logical) page. However, the invisible links of the right bar will coincide with the visible button of the left bar. Magic!

\documentclass[handout]{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=left}
\usetheme{Singapore}
\makeatletter
\defbeamertemplate*{headline}{miniframes theme plus}
{%
  \begin{beamercolorbox}[colsep=1.5pt]{upper separation line head}
  \end{beamercolorbox}
  \begin{beamercolorbox}{section in head/foot}
    %\vskip2pt\insertnavigation{\paperwidth}\vskip2pt
    \vskip2pt\hbox{\insertnavigation{\paperwidth}\insertnavigation{\paperwidth}}\vskip2pt
  \end{beamercolorbox}%
  \ifbeamer@theme@subsection%
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[colsep=1.5pt]{middle separation line head}
    \end{beamercolorbox}
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[ht=2.5ex,dp=1.125ex,%
      leftskip=.3cm,rightskip=.3cm plus1fil]{subsection in head/foot}
      \usebeamerfont{subsection in head/foot}\insertsubsectionhead
    \end{beamercolorbox}%
  \fi%
  \begin{beamercolorbox}[colsep=1.5pt]{lower separation line head}
  \end{beamercolorbox}
}
\addtoheadtemplate{\pgfuseshading{beamer@headfade}\vskip-1.25cm}{}

\begin{document}
    \section{s1}
        \subsection{ss2}
            \frame{{f3}}\frame{{f4}}
        \subsection{ss5}
            \frame{{f6}}\frame{{f7}}
    \section{s8}
        \subsection{ss9}
            \frame{{f10}}\frame{{f11}}
        \subsection{ss12}
            \frame{{f13}}\frame{{f14}}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Hyperref problems in Beamer when using notes

I have tried all options and as it complains, you are simply using obsolete versions of the notes option and make sure that you compile twice to be sure about the warnings. The cases below are fully working without any errors or warnings on Win7 64bit, Texniccenter 2 Alpha3, Miktex 2.9.

% 2. NOTES ON SEPARATE SLIDES:
\documentclass[show notes]{beamer}

% 3. NOTES ONLY:
\documentclass[show only notes]{beamer}

% 4. HANDOUTS:
\documentclass[handout,show notes]{beamer}

I have tried adding new sections and everything (hyperlinks etc.) looks working. I have used the example bibliography on page 102 of the manual (v.3.12) and it is also working without any errors and mistakes. Please edit your question further if you feel that there is still something that does not work.

Here is what I have used, just in case:

%% 1. DUAL-DISPLAY NOTES:
%\documentclass[
                                                        %hyperref={bookmarks=false}
                                                        %]{beamer}
%\usepackage{pgfpages}
%\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=left}

% 2. NOTES ON SEPARATE SLIDES:
\documentclass[show notes]{beamer}

% 3. NOTES ONLY:
%\documentclass[show only notes]{beamer}

% 4. HANDOUTS:
%\documentclass[handout,show notes]{beamer}

% 5. NO NOTES: ONLY ONE THAT BUILDS WITHOUT WARNINGS
%\documentclass[hide notes]{beamer}

\mode<presentation>{
  \usetheme{Warsaw}
  \setbeamercovered{transparent}
}

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\title[Pres\hspace{2em}\insertframenumber/
\inserttotalframenumber]{My Presentation}
\author[Me Me] {Me}
\institute[Univ.]{University}
\date[Sep. 14, 2011]{September 14$^{\text{th}}$, 2011}

% Makes TOC show at beginning og each section:
\AtBeginSubsection[]
{
  \begin{frame}<beamer>{Outline}
    \tableofcontents[currentsection,currentsubsection]
  \end{frame}
    \note{}
}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \titlepage
\end{frame}
\note{}

\begin{frame}{Outline}
  \tableofcontents
\end{frame}
\note{}

\section{Introduction}

\begin{frame}{A content frame }
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
        \item Here is some content.
                \note[item]{And here is a related note.}
        \item More content.
                    \note[item]{Another note. }
        \item Yet more content.
                    \note[item]{Yet again a note.}
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{A second content frame}
\begin{itemize}
        \uncover<1->{
        \item Indented content:
        \begin{itemize}
                \item First piece.
                \note[item]<1->{Note about first piece. }
        \end{itemize}
        }
        \uncover<2->{
        \item More content.
        \begin{itemize}
                \item More indented content.
                \note[item]<2-> {Note about this second piece of content. }
        }
        \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\section{Section 2}
\begin{frame}
\begin{block}{citation}it cites \cite{Salomaa1973}\end{block}
\end{frame}
\subsection{Subsection1}
\begin{frame}
\begin{block}{block1}content 1\end{block}
\end{frame}
\subsection{Subsection2}
\begin{frame}
\begin{block}{block 2}content 2\end{block}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\begin{thebibliography}{Dijkstra, 1982}
\bibitem[Salomaa, 1973]{Salomaa1973}
A.~Salomaa.
\newblock {\em Formal Languages}.
\newblock Academic Press, 1973.
\bibitem[Dijkstra, 1982]{Dijkstra1982}
E.~Dijkstra.
102
\newblock Smoothsort, an alternative for sorting in situ.
\newblock {\em Science of Computer Programming}, 1(3):223--233, 1982.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

EDIT: It turns out that I did not try it with option 1 afterwards. I was able to reproduce the warnings. I will try to see if I can come up with something.

EDIT2: I have switched the location of the presentation and the notes and at least it works as it should. The problem I am guessing is that hyperref only defines hyperlinks for the part on the left and then when creating that small minipage at the corner of the notes, it gets confused since they are defined already on the body of the presentation.

\documentclass[hyperref={bookmarks=false}]{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=left}

this still gives you the warning but the presentation works fine.

[Tex/LaTex] Beamer: make slide transitions dependent only on slide content when notes hidden

Here's something that works with the example you posted, but might not work with more sophisticated overlay specifications. There are two parts to the method. The first is a little addition to the overlay code which tries to establish whether the current frame was explicitly mentioned, for example the 3 in \uncover<3->, or not, for example frame 4 in \uncover<4->. If explicitly mentioned, it sets a flag. The second part to the method is a little addition to pgfpages, imaginatively called pgfmorepages (CTAN and github), which - amongst other things - introduces the possibility of skipping a page when shipping out pages. So this looks for the flag set by the first part of the code and if it doesn't find it, it ignores the particular page.

There is a snag. You can't use the transparent option. That is because this does some look-ahead stuff and asks "Is this going to appear in a frame or two's time?" So it runs the overlay specifications with other frame numbers than the current one and that messes up the testing.

The other annoying bit is that each frame has to start with the command \mentionedsetup. This could be automated by adding it to one of the templates.

Here's the code with some sample frames.

%\url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/56990/86}
% 1. NO NOTES
\documentclass[]{beamer}

%% 2. DUAL-DISPLAY NOTES:
%\documentclass[hyperref={bookmarks=true}]{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfmorepages}
%\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=left}

\makeatletter

\newif\if@mentioned
\@mentionedtrue

\pgfpagesdeclarelayout{1 on 1 with possible skip}
{
  \def\pgfpageoptionborder{0pt}
}
{
  \pgfpagesphysicalpageoptions
  {%
    logical pages=1,%
    physical pages=1,%
    first logical shipout=1,%
    last logical shipout=1,%
    current logical shipout=1,%
  }
  \pgfpagesphysicalpage{1}{
    skip code={%
      \if@mentioned
      \pgfpagesshiptrue
      \else
      \pgfpagesshipfalse
      \fi
    }
  }
  \pgfpageslogicalpageoptions{1}
  {%
    center=\pgfpoint{.5\pgfphysicalwidth}{.5\pgfphysicalheight},%
  }%
}

\pgfpagesuselayout{1 on 1 with possible skip}

\def\slidereferenced{%
  \ifbeamer@inframe
  \global\@mentionedtrue
  \fi
}

\def\mentionedsetup{%
  \ifnum\beamer@slideinframe=1
  \global\@mentionedtrue
  \else
  \global\@mentionedfalse
  \fi
}

\expandafter\let\csname
beamerx@\string\beamer@inframenote\endcsname\relax
\renewcommand<>{\beamer@inframenote}[2][]{}

\def\beamer@decodeuntil-#1,{%
  \ifnum1<\beamer@minimum\global\beamer@minimum=1\fi%
  \ifnum#1>\beamer@slideinframe\global\beamer@anotherslidetrue\beamer@localanotherslidetrue\fi%
  \ifnum\beamer@slideinframe>#1\else\gdef\beamer@doifnotinframe{\beamer@doifinframe}\fi%
  \ifnum\beamer@slideinframe=#1\relax\slidereferenced\fi%
  \beamer@@decode}
\def\beamer@decodeto#1,{%
  \ifnum#1<\beamer@minimum\global\beamer@minimum=#1\fi%
  \ifnum#1>\beamer@slideinframe\global\beamer@anotherslidetrue\beamer@localanotherslidetrue\fi%
  \ifnum#1>\beamer@slideinframe\else\gdef\beamer@doifnotinframe{\beamer@doifinframe}\fi%
  \ifnum\beamer@slideinframe=#1\relax\slidereferenced\fi%
  \beamer@@decode}
\def\beamer@decodebetween#1#2,{%
  \ifnum#1<\beamer@minimum\global\beamer@minimum=#1\fi%
  \ifnum#1>\beamer@slideinframe\global\beamer@anotherslidetrue\beamer@localanotherslidetrue\fi%
  \ifnum#2>\beamer@slideinframe\global\beamer@anotherslidetrue\beamer@localanotherslidetrue\fi%
  \ifnum#1>\beamer@slideinframe\else\ifnum#2<\beamer@slideinframe\else\gdef\beamer@doifnotinframe{\beamer@doifinframe}\fi\fi%
  \ifnum\beamer@slideinframe=#1\relax\slidereferenced\fi%
  \ifnum\beamer@slideinframe=#2\relax\slidereferenced\fi%
  \beamer@@decode}
\def\beamer@decodeone#1,{%
  \ifnum#1<\beamer@minimum\global\beamer@minimum=#1\fi%
  \ifnum#1>\beamer@slideinframe\global\beamer@anotherslidetrue\beamer@localanotherslidetrue\fi%
  \ifnum#1=\beamer@slideinframe\gdef\beamer@doifnotinframe{\beamer@doifinframe}\fi%
  \ifnum\beamer@slideinframe=#1\relax\slidereferenced\fi%
  \beamer@@decode}

\makeatother

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\mode<presentation>{
  \usetheme{Warsaw}
%    \setbeamercovered{transparent}
}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}{Testing}
\mentionedsetup
\uncover<1->{hello}
\uncover<3->{world}
\uncover<5->{greetings}
\uncover<7->{earthlings}

\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Introduction}{}
\mentionedsetup
\begin{itemize}
\item hello world
    \uncover<1->{\item Here is my first point}
  \uncover<2->{\item Here is my second point}
    \uncover<4->{\item With notes on, I would expect it to take two
clicks to get here from the last point, since there are two notes. But
with them off, I would expect it to take one click.}
    \uncover<5->{\item This is my third point. I have four notes about
this point, so with notes on, it should take three more clicks to get
to the next slide. With them off, however, it should take one. }
\end{itemize}

\note[item]<1->{Here is a note about my first point}
\note[item]<2->{Here is a note about my second point}
\note[item]<3->{Here is \textbf{another} note about my second point}
\note[item]<4->{Here is a note about my third point}
\note[item]<5->{Here is the second of several more notes about my
third point}
\note[item]<6->{Another one}
\note[item]<7->{And another}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Another slide}{}
\begin{itemize}
    \uncover<1->{\item Not much to say here}
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Oh, and we have to redefine the \note command. Even when the notes aren't shown, the command is processed. So we have to redefine it to be a NO-OP to ensure that the resulting overlays aren't read.

Here's the first few frames of the above, showing that frames 2,4,6 get skipped.

beamer notes with frames removed

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