showoff2pdf

Using Markdown Prawn, showoff2pdf will try to convert a ShowOff presentation into a sensible PDF document ready to print.

At the moment it supports the following features:

• Bulleted Lists
• Ordered lists
• Images (local and remote)
• Multiple levels of headings
• Bold, Italic and Underline text

With partial (and in progress) support for:

• Code blocks
• Commandline argument
• Formatting / Alignment

Requirements

Requires the latest Prawn and also requires ShowOff.

Prawn is used to generate the PDFs and ShowOff itself is used to read the configuration information from the slideshow and pull in its content from each section.

Installation

  $  sudo gem install prawn --pre
  $  sudo gem install show_off_pdf --pre showoff

Usage

  $  cd /path/to/show_off_presentation
  $  showoff2pdf > presentation.pdf

Known Issues

The following known issues are being worked on

• Detecting and dealing with code blocks is sketchy and inconsistant.
• Detecting and dealing with commandline blocks is sketchy and inconsistant.
• Images may become corrupt on OS X with some versions of Prawn. Your best bet to solve this problem is to update to at least Prawn 0.11.1.pre, which is what fixed the issue for me.

Bugs

Please open an issue here if you encounter a problem with using showoff2pdf.