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Currently I am preparing a presentation in beamer. I make an extensive use of the \pause-command. However, it would be good to disable \pause temporarily to quickly go through the presentation. Additionally, I would like to send the presentation to members of the audience without all the split frames and without deleting or %-ing the \pauses manually. Does anyone has a solution?

Philip
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    The handout option? See the beamer manual – daleif Jan 20 '15 at 19:38
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    The easiest way is to add the handout option: \documentclass[handout]{beamer}. However, this may sometimes be an overkill, especially when you have \only, \onslide, overprint, etc. in your presentation. There are other, more subtle ways of suppressing overlay effects. You may post a more specific question if the handout option at document class does turn out to be an overkill. – Herr K. Jan 20 '15 at 19:45
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    Why not try \def\pause{} on preamble? – Sigur Jan 20 '15 at 22:36
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    @Sigur: \def\pause{} doesn't work for me if it is in the preamble. It has to be put after \begin{document}. – Herr K. Jan 20 '15 at 22:45
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    To save and resotre, use \let\oldpause=\pause \def\pause{} to disable then \let\pause=\oldpause to restore. – John Kormylo Jan 21 '15 at 16:58
  • @daleif and Kevin C: Thank you so much, the handout option does the job. – Philip Jan 26 '15 at 10:57
  • @Sigur, John Kormylo: Thank you, too. The handout option seems to be the more elegant solution. – Philip Jan 26 '15 at 10:59
  • @Philip, yes, it is. Every time we have some idea to do something in TeX and we don't know how be sure that there is a professional way to do it. lol – Sigur Jan 26 '15 at 11:13
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    See the answer here http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1423/is-there-a-nice-way-to-compile-a-beamer-presentation-without-the-pauses – Vahan Nov 21 '16 at 21:06

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This is done automatically using the handout class option. Simply use

\documentclass[handout,....]{beamer}

Then recompile. This gives you the final state of each frame.

daleif
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