Feature request: directly exporting notebook slides to PDF

[eseiver]

What this person said:
ipython/ipython#9348

Would be amazing to have notebook to slides to PDF in one line as in:
jupyter nbconvert --to pdfslides /path/to/your/notebook.ipynb

[wesleyjr01]

Is there a solution for this?

[bollwyvl]

Unsurprisingly, you need a Real Browser in the loop. Currently, the best solution I have heard of, but not tried in anger, is decktape <https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape> which uses Chrome and puppeteer. It says RISE <https://github.com/damianavila/RISE> (which you should try, if you haven't!), but should work with vanilla nbformat slideshow metadata. I am personally wary of Chrome-based workflows, as it's really hard to get something reproducible (e.g. year over year for courses) unless you package it all up as a magic Docker container, and then trust it forever, but at present the firefox/geckodriver PDF export situation is not ideal. MY preference would be for us to someday find something that works with the Qt stack, which has a sanely-embedded Chromium, but I haven't explored it in some time.

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[maartenbreddels]

The strategy I use in #901 might work, start a webserver (running in nbserver) with some extra js that will use html2canvas and send the screenshots back to the server.