--- title: Jan-Piet Mens :: Rediscovering reveal.js to PDF | daily.dev description: A workflow for converting reveal.js slide decks (generated from Emacs Org-mode) to PDF using decktape. The author shares a shell script called runoff.sh that... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/jan-piet-mens-rediscovering-reveal-js-to-pdf-nb7g56koi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Jan-Piet Mens :: Rediscovering reveal.js to PDF | daily.dev og:description: A workflow for converting reveal.js slide decks (generated from Emacs Org-mode) to PDF using decktape. The author shares a shell script called runoff.sh that... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/jan-piet-mens-rediscovering-reveal-js-to-pdf-nb7g56koi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NB7G56koI.png og:image:alt: Jan-Piet Mens :: Rediscovering reveal.js to PDF og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Jan-Piet Mens :: Rediscovering reveal.js to PDF **[Jan-Piet Mens](https://daily.dev/sources/jpmens)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A workflow for converting reveal.js slide decks (generated from Emacs Org-mode) to PDF using decktape. The author shares a shell script called runoff.sh that spins up a local Python HTTP server, runs decktape against the presentation HTML, and kills the server on exit. Key findings: the Docker image of decktape produced different font rendering compared to a native macOS install, so local installation was preferred. Two remaining gaps are noted: no page numbers on slides and no satisfactory 2-up PDF layout tool after Ghostscript broke. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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