Export slides to PDF

[nicoespeon]

Dumping this idea out of my head: being able to export the slide deck as a PDF.

I'll likely work on this the next time I need to do a presentation (obviously, COVID had an impact on that, switching my priorities).

[etbrow]

@nicoespeon I got bored and picked this up. I have the initial work done using showdown + puppeteer but a few questions to put the finishing touches on it:

• Default to landscape mode on the PDF?
• What customization points do you want on the PDF?
• Will all of these slides sit in the same PDF or do you want 1:1 in the same folder?

Open to any other suggestions and I'll fit in what I can. I've also done my best to upgrade all of the dependencies to the latest versions.

[nicoespeon]

@etbrow awesome!

To answer your questions:

1. Default to landscape mode indeed, it would be more intuitive to preserve this format for the export
2. No need for customization for a basic version. It would naturally come up from usage. If you have some needs, go for it, but I recommend keeping it simple first.
3. All slides in a single PDF indeed, like what you would get by exporting a Keynote/Powerpoint presentation into PDF by default.

To be transparent, I haven't used the extension myself in a while so I don't have much in mind about that. I just recall that having a PDF export would be cool to share the content with the audience afterward the talk (besides sharing the source code, a PDF would be convenient).