S5toPDF

Converts S5 slides to PDFs.

When S5toPDF Works

S5toPDF has been tested with:

• Apache Fop

Support for some elements still remains TODO. To add support, just find and fill in the commented out outlines.

How S5toPDF Works

The s5.xsl stylesheet outputs xml suitable for [XSL-FO] (http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/ "Extensible Stylesheet Language, W3C Recommendation"). Pass this stylesheet and the S5 presentation document to an XSL-FO (for example Apache Fop processor.

S5toPDF has a modular design, with each group of related elements managed by an independent stylesheet imported by s5.xsl. See the comments in each stylesheet for more details.

Easy Customisation

The stylesheets are arranged in a modular fashion. Many parameter been factored out into s5-params, and described in a comment. This allows many common customisations to be performed by

• passing parameters to the comment line interface of your XSL-FO processor,
• Adding an extra import to s5.xsl
• Editing s5-params.xsl

See the comments in s5-params.xsl for more details.

Some Ways To Use S5toPDF

With Apache FOP

A good way to use S5toPDF is to check talks, XSL-FO processor and S5toPDF out into a root working directory.

• Checkout S5toPDF into S5toPDF (say)

• Install Apache Fop version 1.0 (say) into fop-1.0 (say)

• Checkout the S5 presentation, ThePomodoroTechnique (say)

  fop-1.0/fop -xml ThePomodoroTechnique/index.html -xsl S5toPDF/s5.xsl -pdf talk.pdf 
  

To set a new parameter value on the command line use -param *name* *value*

  fop-1.0/fop -xml ThePomodoroTechnique/index.html -xsl S5toPDF/s5.xsl -param MainFont monospace -pdf alt-font-talk.pdf

Notes

Since 0.2

0.2

• Improved support for lists. Spacing improved for deep lists and gaps tuned.
• Factored out unit from list parameters. Existing names preserved but values now calculated. 0.1

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Initial release, minimal but usable.