Beamer handouts with only / onslide and notes

Question

Question

I want to give a handout for my course (made in beamer). I use Xelatex, but I don't think this is relevant here.

The layout should be a portrait A4 with the slide at the top and a zone with notes at the bottom and page numbering (cf image 1).

Img 1:

Here is what I tried

Tries

Try 1 : beamer handout class

I tried something like this (minimal example)

The images can be anything (convert -size 1500x1000 xc:grey a.png should do the trick to create some quickly).

\documentclass[handout]{beamer}
\usepackage{handoutWithNotes}  % from https://github.com/gdiepen/latexbeamer-handoutWithNotes
\pgfpagesuselayout{1 on 1 with notes}[a4paper,border shrink=5mm]

\usetheme[hideothersubsections]{Goettingen}
\usecolortheme{default}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
    \only<1>{\centering \includegraphics[width=10cm]{a.png}}
    \only<2>{\centering \includegraphics[width=10cm]{b.png}}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Which works nearly fine (cf image 1) where there is no \only or \onslide or \pause. But when the slide takes more than one page it doesn't display nicely (cf image 2)...

What I would like with this solution

Getting 2 different pages (ie putting in two frames instead of using \onslide), with page numbering would be OK.

Changing onslide<1> with \onslide<1-| handout:1> (for each frame) seems to do the trick, but I don't get the page numbers and I have to change all the onslide elements... (image 3)

Try 2 : includepdf and custom style

I also tried to use includepdf (all.pdf is for instance the pdf created without the [handout] mode on the previous code)

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}

\begin{document}
\includepdf[pagecommand={\thispagestyle{blank}},pages=-,landscape=false,frame=true, offset=0 198]{all.pdf}
\end{document}

What I would like

But I don't know how to add the note section (I think by hacking a style and a footer).

Welcome to TeX.SX! 1. Could you please add a full minimal working example (MWE), that illustrates your problem. 2. Please help me to understand your question right, you expected the result of image 1, but you achived image 2? -- Is this a related question?: Is there a nice solution to get a presenter mode for Latex presentations — Bobyandbob, Aug 25 '18 at 09:59
Thanks. I edited the question with minimal reproductible code. Yes, I want to acheive the result of image 1 but get image 2...
I don't think they are related, I want to print a handout with some lines under the frames, for them to take some notes, not dsplaying my notes there. — ice3, Aug 25 '18 at 10:35
Perfect edited question(+1). I get the problem and i can reprocude it. At the moment i can't solve your problem (or does \pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1 with notes landscape}[a4paper,border shrink=5mm] help?), hope someone else could help. - Hint: You always could use the example-image in an mwe, so use \includegraphics[width=10cm]{example-image-a} instead of \includegraphics[width=10cm]{a.png}. — Bobyandbob, Aug 25 '18 at 10:51
Do you need the handout document class option? Without your example would automatically produce two pages — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Aug 25 '18 at 13:24
@samcarter without the document, the pdf I get is the slides, not the A4 document I want to give to the students — ice3, Aug 25 '18 at 14:44
@ice3 No, the A4 layout is independent of the document class option handout — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Aug 25 '18 at 14:54
@samcarter yes, I see. But without the handout, how can I get the "notes" under the frame and the page numbering at the bottom of the page ? — ice3, Aug 27 '18 at 10:54
@ice3 The notes are under the frame regardless of the handout option. The notes are added by the handoutWithNotes package and are not connected in any way to the handout option. As for the page numbering: This is a seperate problem, not connected to the use of overlays and handout options. This is just how the layout of the handoutWithNotes package is defined. This can be changed, but you should ask this as separate question. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Aug 27 '18 at 11:04

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 27 '18 at 10:58

To create separate pages for each overlay, just remove the handout beamer option

\documentclass[]{beamer}
\usepackage{handoutWithNotes}  % from https://github.com/gdiepen/latexbeamer-handoutWithNotes
\pgfpagesuselayout{1 on 1 with notes}[a4paper,border shrink=5mm]

\usetheme[hideothersubsections]{Goettingen}
\usecolortheme{default}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
    \only<1>{\centering \includegraphics[width=10cm]{example-image-a}}%
    \only<2>{\centering \includegraphics[width=10cm]{example-image-b}}%
\end{frame}

\end{document}