Since switching to Ubuntu as my primary (and almost only) platform, I've sometimes had some challenges with presentations created with OpenOffice or LibreOffice Impress. One challenge is producing handouts based on the notes pages in a presentation. The export to PDF feature cannot, apparently, produce a PDF containing only the notes pages. It always exports the slides as well.
I was happy to find a handy script at http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=38797, contributed by user eponymous way back in 2006. The script reads the exported PDF file and writes two PDF files: One containing only the slide images and one containing only the notes pages. The script depends on pdftk (PDF Toolkit) from PDF Labs, available from http://www.pdflabs.com/. Pdftk can also be installed from an Ubuntu repository with
sudo apt-get install pdftk
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