The “Get Presenter Notes for Slide” Action

This action is used to extract the presenter notes of the slides whose references are passed to the action as input.

The Action Information

Input:This action accepts AppleScript references to the slides to be processed. NOTE:

  • If no reference is provided as input, the action will assume the current slide of the frontmost document is the slide to be processed.

  • If a document reference is provided as input, the action will assume the current slide of the referenced document is the slide to be processed.
Output:The extracted presenter notes are passed to the next action in the containing workflow in either of two formats:

  • As text from all extracted notes combined into a single text block

  • As an AppleScript list containing each of the extracted notes
Parameters:

User-settable parameters include:

  • Setting the output format for the action

  • Whether to precede each note with the slide number of its parent slide

Related:

Other actions that often precede this action:

  • Get Specified Slide

The Action Interface

The interface for the Set Transition for Slide action

 1  Output Format menu • Select whether to pass the results of this action as text block of paragraphs, or as an AppleScript list of text strings.

 2  Number Notes checkbox • Select this checkbox to precede each extracted note with the slide number of its parent slide.

Example Workflow

Here’s a simple workflow that extracts the presenter notes from all slides of the frontmost presentation and creates a new TextEdit document with their contents.

 1  Specify All Slides •  (⬇ see below )  Set the “Get Specified Slide” action to return references to all of the slides of the frontmost presentation.

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 2  Extract Notes • Set the output format to be a text string combining the notes from each of the referenced slides.

 3  Add Slide Identifier • Preface each extracted notes with the slide number of the parent slide.

 4  New Document • Create a new TextEdit document using the extracted notes as the document contents  (⬇ see below ) 

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TIP: To create a workflow usable with all applications, replace the “New TextEdit Document” action with the “Copy to Clipboard” action.

TIP: Check out this workflow for creating a new outgoing Mail message containing the presenter notes from the frontmost presentation.

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