examples for printing a presentation?

[hpk42]

Thanks for a nice tool!

Is there an example on how to print a hovercraft presentation? If not, could one be added?

[regebro]

Printing is a problem with prezi-style presentations, as there are no clear separate pages, so I have no good solution for that yet. I would like to add a way to make PDF's out of the presentations, but I haven't looked into that yet, so I don't actually know how it would be done. I suspect making PDF's and printing them is the best way to get to a "printing" solution.

It would also be possible to create several types of PDF's, like PDF's with presenter notes, and PDF's with an area for note-taking, and PDF's with 6 slides to the page, etc. That would be a nice addition.

Opinions and ideas for how to best create PDF's are welcome. The HTML to PDF tools I have seen has been very crude, so I don't think that's an option, but I'm willing to get my mind changed on that. :-)

[hpk42]

For me a simple 4/6/8 slides-per-page PDF, no presenter nodes, would be sufficient. Not sure how to best create them from ReST - last time i did it was via rst->latex->pdf but that is many years ago.

[regebro]

Creating it from ReST would require you do redo the styling in LaTeX, so I don't think that's a real option. But If you don't care about the styling at all, then this is an option.

I googled a bit about printing impress.js presentations, and there are some CSS-tricks you can do to create page breaks for every slide, and then disable javascript and hence print that way (including to PDF) that might be a possible way as well.

[hpk42]

sounds good. Any chance such a CSS gets integrated into hovercraft?

[regebro]

If a generic solution can be found, sure, but I don't know if that is possible at all. I'll have to investigate,

[cdw9]

I put together some simple styles that will print out one slide per page:

@media print {

body {
overflow: visible !important;
}
#impress,
#impress > div {
position: static !important;
transform: none !important;
transform-style: flat !important;
}
.step {
position: static !important;
page-break-after: always;
transform: none !important;
transform-style: flat !important;
width: 100% !important;
}
#hovercraft-help {
display: none;
}

}

[regebro]

I've tried deck2js, https://github.com/melix/deck2pdf , and it seems to work fine. I'll investigate options for integrations.

[jhermann]

deck2pdf is nice, you can also create a thumbnail image from the generated PDF like this:

https://github.com/Springerle/hovercraft-slides/blob/master/%7B%7Bcookiecutter.repo_name%7D%7D/tasks.py#L132-L135

[typekpb]

https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape seems to be maintained option