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You’re maybe familiar with slideshow (aka S9) to have your presentation in HTML and to modify it very easily in Textile. For my presentations I now use slidedown which is very cool too. But my ultimate goal was to convert them to PDF.

WARNING: My solution is build with MacRuby. So install it before trying.

I finally find a way to do it, thanks to the work of Tom Ward with Snapper and Matt Aimonetti with his recent MacRuby sample. Here’s the script which is very easy to use:

This will convert the presentation to PDF! You can see the result here. The generated PDF is named slides.pdf but you can name it yourself in the command line:

The -n option is to know how many slides you have in the presentation.