[Chennaipy] Convert HTML Presentation to PDF

[Venkatesh U]

Good idea Vijay.
On Jan 10, 2015 9:58 PM, "Vijay Kumar" <vijaykumar at zilogic.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> In the last meetup, I did my presentation using asciidoc and
> dzslides. http://paulrouget.com/dzslides/ Though I liked the output,
> with dzslides' CSS it was not possible to print the slides to PDF. I
> was looking for ways to convert the slides to PDF, so that I can
> upload them to slideshare.
>
> After reading through various projects on the Internet, it occurred to
> me that this can be easily done using selenium. The following Python
> script opens up the slides, and saves a screenshot of every slide to a
> separate image file. The slides are advanced by sending the SPACE key
> stroke, to the browser.
>
> ------
> from selenium import webdriver
>
> browser = webdriver.Firefox()
> browser.set_window_size(1600, 1200)
> browser.get("file:///path/to/slides.html")
>
> for i in range(40):
>     browser.save_screenshot("frame%02d.png" % i)
>     section = browser.find_element_by_tag_name("section")
>     section.send_keys(" ")
>
> browser.quit()
> ------
>
> The series of screenshots can then be converted to PDF using the
> following command.
>
> ------
> $ convert frame*.png slides.pdf
> ------
>
> Well the result is not perfect, for example, the text is no longer
> selectable, in the resulting PDF, and hyperlinks do not work. But I
> atleast have something, that can be uploaded to slideshare.
>
> Regards,
> Vijay
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