sconv - a slide converter
by
Jürgen Rinas email homepage
 
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Don't you know the problem?

You need an easy way to create a chain of html pages of the presentation you did yesterday. M$-Powerpoint's export feature is ugly and depends too much on frames und javascript so that it is unusable. And what about LaTeX presentations?

So we need a program that converts a presentation - available as a postscript or .pdf-File - into a chain of web pages with an image of each page on it. In addition there should be a contents page with thumbnails of each page. And this is really what sconv does. It is a bash script that uses common programs to build a chain of web pages from a .ps or .pdf file...

I've developed sconv on a GNU/Linux system. As a simple bash script sconv depends on the availability of the following programs:

  • ghostscript (with -sDEVICE=ppm)
  • acroread (or alternatively pdf2ps if acroread is not available)
  • pnmflip, pnmscale, pnmtopng from the netpbm package
  • uudecode from the sharutils package to unpack the embedded "valid-html", "ps" and "pdf" buttons
 
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  • download sconv.sh, 2008-Apr-14
  • make it executable with "chmod a+x sconv"
  • start it to get further help

Hint for local users: You don't have to download sconv if you add
"alias sconv=/ant/www/whomes/rinas/sconv/sconv"
to your "$HOME/.bashrc".
(This ensures that you are always using the newest version of sconv without any interaction.)

Old versions can be found here. (The changelog is always on top of the shell script.)

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