DeckTape is a high-quality PDF exporter for HTML5 presentation frameworks.

DeckTape supports all the features that you would expect from a PDF exporter like font embedding, selectable text, hyperlinks, SVG graphics objects, file compression.

DeckTape is built on top of PhantomJS which relies on Qt WebKit for laying out and rendering Web pages and provides a headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API.

DeckTape currently supports the following presentation frameworks out of the box:

DeckTape also provides a generic command that works by emulating the end-user interaction, allowing it to be used to convert presentations from virtually any kind of framework. The generic mode is particularly useful for supporting HTML presentation frameworks that don’t expose an API or accessible state.

DeckTape’s plugin-based architecture exposes an extension API, making it possible to add support for other frameworks or to tailor existing plugins to your specific needs.

DeckTape can optionally be used to capture screenshots of your slide decks in various resolutions (similar to pageres). That can be useful to make sure your presentations are responsive or to create handouts for them.

You can browse some slide deck examples below that have been exported with DeckTape.

From the command-line, follow the instructions below:

1. Shallow clone DeckTape Git repository:

   $ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape.git

2. Change into the decktape directory:

   $ cd decktape

3. Download PhantomJS executable:

   ℹ️	DeckTape currently depends on a forked version of PhantomJS. What follows is a list of precompiled binaries for various platforms.

    # Windows (MSVC 2013), 64-bit, for Windows Vista or later, bundles VC++ Runtime 2013
    $ curl -L http://astefanutti.github.io/decktape/downloads/phantomjs-msvc2013-win64.exe -o bin\phantomjs.exe
    # Mac OS X (Cocoa), 64-bit, for OS X 10.6 or later
    $ curl -L http://astefanutti.github.io/decktape/downloads/phantomjs-osx-cocoa-x86-64 -o bin/phantomjs
    # Linux (CentOS 6), 64-bit
    $ curl -L http://astefanutti.github.io/decktape/downloads/phantomjs-linux-centos6-x86-64 -o bin/phantomjs
    # Linux (CentOS 7), 64-bit
    $ curl -L http://astefanutti.github.io/decktape/downloads/phantomjs-linux-centos7-x86-64 -o bin/phantomjs
    # Linux (Debian 8), 64-bit
    $ curl -L http://astefanutti.github.io/decktape/downloads/phantomjs-linux-debian8-x86-64 -o bin/phantomjs
    # Linux (Ubuntu 16.04), 64-bit
    $ curl -L http://astefanutti.github.io/decktape/downloads/phantomjs-linux-ubuntu16-x86-64 -o bin/phantomjs

4. Set the execute permission (non-Windows OS binaries only):

   $ chmod +x bin/phantomjs

If the executable isn’t available for your target platform, follow the instructions in the Build section. Alternatively, DeckTape provides a Docker image so that you can directly execute it with Docker. See the Docker section for more information.

Inside the DeckTape install directory, run:

In addition to the general options listed above, command specific options can be displayed the following way:

The following slide deck examples have been exported using DeckTape:

DeckTape can be executed within a Docker container from the command-line using the astefanutti/decktape Docker image available on Docker Hub:

For example:

• To convert an online HTML presentation and have it exported into the working directory under the slides.pdf filename:

   $ docker run --rm -v `pwd`:/pwd astefanutti/decktape http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js /pwd/slides.pdf

• Or, to convert an HTML presentation that’s stored on the local file system in the home directory:

   $ docker run --rm -v `pwd`:/pwd -v ~:/home astefanutti/decktape /home/slides.html /pwd/slides.pdf

• Or, to convert an HTML presentation that’s deployed on the local host:

   $ docker run --rm --net=host -v `pwd`:/pwd astefanutti/decktape http://localhost:8000 /pwd/slides.pdf

It is recommended to use the following options from the docker run command:

--rm

DeckTape is meant to be run as a short-term foreground process so that it’s not necessary to have the container’s file system persisted after DeckTape exits,

-v

to mount a data volume so that DeckTape can directly write to the local file system.

Alternatively, you can use the docker cp command, e.g.:

Finally, if you want to execute DeckTape using a local clone of the DeckTape repository in order to take your changes into account, you can run:

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