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[Charles Nepote <charles@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Le 15/09/2017 à 18:38, John R. Marks, IV a écrit :
> I just *now* noticed that zim exports to S5 slides, which is awesome: 
> But has anyone else confronted the problem of exporting to PDF? I see 
> that the S5 engine has a "print.css" -- but that appears to be for 
> creating paper-enhanced versions, whereas I'd like to have PDFs 
> exported exactly like the original. I don't think S5 can do it (or at 
> least I've not been able to figure it out) -- If I'm right and it 
> can't, i'm also aware that there are a katrillion other HTML/CSS/JS 
> Markdowny engines out there. So, I was wondering if anyone had solved 
> this, or if not, if they had any ideas on getting this functionality 
> -- whether it's trtying to hack the S5 css, or perhaps using a 
> different slide engine (Beamer, slidify, slideous ?) Seems like 
> exporting to one of those might not be too hard? I'm willing to try to 
> help perhaps make another exporter?

I've worked on it a little bit a few months ago and I noticed that:

 * Zim is producing a very standard HTML code (<h1>, <h2>, etc.) which
   fits well with old generation HTML slides engines (such as S5): this
   ones are not able to produce PDF
 * New generation HTML slides engine, which can produce PDF, are based
   on different semantics: they use HTML5 <sections> to distinguish
   slides and Zim can't do that. Example:
     o http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/
     o https://github.com/paulrouget/dzslides
     o https://shwr.me/
     o http://imakewebthings.com/deck.js/#slides-html

But maybe my investigations were not sufficient.

Best, Charles.