Creating Course Slides

Thomas Leitner

@gettalong @_gettalong

The Ingredients

• webgen

• kramdown

• prawn (and prawn-table, prawn-fast-png)

Static Website Generator webgen

• Meta information files for easy configuration of multiple input files

• Ability to support multiple output files for a single input file (version)

• Extension mechanism for defining the custom PDF content processor

• Deep integration with kramdown

• Template chaining

Markdown-superset Converter kramdown

• Does the actual hard work of converting our markup into an output format

• Has a built-in experimental PDF converter based on the Prawn library

• Customization of the PDF output by modifying the converter object

PDF Creation Library prawn

• The de-facto standard for creating PDFs in Ruby

• Provides high-level facilities for text layout

• Faster than shelling out to wkhtmltopdf and better output