On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Nilanjan Palit <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looking back in my boston.pm archive, I saw mention of a Perl slide generator > script by Damian from way back when, but there was no name for that module > and Googling did not help. I found 2 modules on CPAN that looked interesting: > mkpres (seems too much work to type all those XML tags) & Perl6::Pod::Slide > (seems more lightweight, but unsure if it will work with a Perl5 install). Any > usage comments on the above modules or recommendations for other ones > would be much appreciated. Output can be html (for presentation) and > preferably also support pdf (or some other single document container) for > sharing offline. Support for images would be a great plus. Thanks, -Nilanjan Check out Vroom on CPAN, which provides Vim-based slideshows. It can generate HTML-based slideshows as well. When I use it, I present the slides in Vim and provide a link to share them in HTML. I frequently see Vroom used at YAPC. https://metacpan.org/module/Vroom It doesn't have PDF support but it's easy to convert HTML to PDF. Since it's primarily created for Vim, there is no image support whatsoever and has minimal formatting. The benefits include writing slides in a wiki syntax, automatic code syntax highlighting, executing code from your slides during the presentation, and modifying slides during the presentation. Here is an example slides.vroom files from one of my talks: https://github.com/patch/testml-ppw2010-talk And here is the generated HTML: http://patch.github.com/testml-ppw2010-talk/ As much as I like Vroom, I must admit that my last few talks were created in OpenOffice Impress, exported to a PDF slideshow for presenting, and shared via SlideShare. Nick _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
