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DeckTape
DeckTape is a high-quality PDF exporter for HTML5 presentation frameworks. It supports all the features that you would expect from a PDF exporter like font embedding, selectable text, hyperlinks, SVG graphics objects, file compression.
DeckTape is built on top of PhantomJS which relies on WebKit Qt for laying out and rendering Web pages and provides a headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API.
DeckTape currently supports the reveal.js and DZSlides presentation frameworks. Besides, it exposes a plugin-based extension API so that it is possible to add support for other frameworks or tailored existing ones to your specific needs.
You can browse some slide deck examples below that have been exported with DeckTape.
Install
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Clone DeckTape Git repository:
git clone https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape.git
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Change into the
decktape
directory:cd decktape
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Dowload PhantomJS executable: DeckTape currently depends on a forked version of PhantomJS. You can get the corresponding binaries for the platforms above:
# Windows (MSVC 2013), 64-bit, for Windows Vista or later, bundles VC++ Runtime 2013: wget http://astefanutti.github.io/decktape/downloads/phantomjs-msvc2013-win64.exe
If the executable isn't available for your target plaform, see the Build section and follow the instructions.
Usage
Into DeckTape install directory:
phantomjs decktape.js -h
Usage: phantomjs decktape.js <url> <filename> [options]
url URL of the slides deck
filename Filename of the output PDF file
Options:
--width Width of the slides deck [1280]
--height Height of the slides deck [720]
--pause Duration in milliseconds before the next slide is exported [1000]
Build
To build the forked version of PhantomJS whose DeckTape relies on, you have to execute the following commands from the DeckTape install directory:
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Initialize the
phantomjs
submodule:git submodule init
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Pull down the
phantomjs
files:git submodule udpdate
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Change into the
phantomjs
directory:cd phantomjs
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Launch the build script:
build
More information can be found in Compiling PhantomJS from source and in Building Qt 5 from Git.
Plugins
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Examples
The following slide deck examples have been exported using DeckTape:
HTML5 Presentation | Framework | Exported PDF |
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Beyond Rectangles in Web Design | reveal.js 2.6.2 |
fowd-nyc-2014.pdf (14Mb) |
Getting Involved in Open Source | reveal.js 3.0.0 |
opensource-getting-involved.pdf (1.1M) |
Going Further with CDI | Asciidoctor + DZSlides | going-further-with-cdi.pdf (1.8M) |