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Here https://gist.github.com/andrejbauer/ac361549ac2186be0cdb

there is a MWE of creating a beamer presentation with added notes.

documentclass[12pt]{beamer}



usepackage{pgfpages}



% These slides also contain speaker notes. You can print just the slides,

% just the notes, or both, depending on the setting below. Comment out the want

% you want.



%setbeameroption{hide notes} % Only slides

%setbeameroption{show only notes} % Only notes

setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=right} % Both



% To give a presentation with the Skim reader (http://skim-app.sourceforge.net) on OSX so

% that you see the notes on your laptop and the slides on the projector, do the following:

% 

% 1. Generate just the presentation (hide notes) and save to slides.pdf

% 2. Generate onlt the notes (show only nodes) and save to notes.pdf

% 3. With Skim open both slides.pdf and notes.pdf

% 4. Click on slides.pdf to bring it to front.

% 5. In Skim, under "View -> Presentation Option -> Synhcronized Noted Document"

%    select notes.pdf.

% 6. Now as you move around in slides.pdf the notes.pdf file will follow you.

% 7. Arrange windows so that notes.pdf is in full screen mode on your laptop

%    and slides.pdf is in presentation mode on the projector.



% Give a slight yellow tint to the notes page

setbeamertemplate{note page}{pagecolor{yellow!5}insertnote}usepackage{palatino}



title{How to make Beamer slides with notes}

author{Andrej Bauer\University of Ljubljana}

date{small Planet Earth}



begin{document}



begin{frame}

  titlepage



  note[item]{Thank the audience for being awake.}

end{frame}



begin{frame}



  begin{itemize}

  item Here are

  item some very boring bullets

  item about nothing.

  end{itemize}



  note[item]{Note that this slide is boring.}



  note[item]{Observe that there are no actual bullets here.}



  note[item]{Future work: add another bullet.}

end{frame}





end{document}

The author says (comments of the code)

%To give a presentation with the Skim reader (http://skim-app.sourceforge.net) %on OSX so

% that you see the notes on your laptop and the slides on the projector, do %the following:

% 

% 1. Generate just the presentation (hide notes) and save to slides.pdf

% 2. Generate onlt the notes (show only nodes) and save to notes.pdf

% 3. With Skim open both slides.pdf and notes.pdf

% 4. Click on slides.pdf to bring it to front.

% 5. In Skim, under "View -> Presentation Option -> Synhcronized Noted Document"

%    select notes.pdf.

% 6. Now as you move around in slides.pdf the notes.pdf file will follow you.

% 7. Arrange windows so that notes.pdf is in full screen mode on your laptop

%    and slides.pdf is in presentation mode on the projector.

What are the alternatives (Ubuntu and Windows) to Skim which is only for Mac?
In general, how can one proceed using only a traditional pdf viewer (e.g. Adobe for windows, Okular for Ubuntu)? Thanks a lot!