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Creating Slides

It's time now to make our source a document. HTML can be displayed everywhere, so we choose the converter pp2html which converts PerlPoint sources into HTML pages. As mentioned before, the converter adds layout. HTML layouts can be configured very fine grained by the various options of pp2html, or one can use predeclared layouts called "styles". Luckily, pp2html comes with several example styles, so we take one of those.

Please remember where you installed PerlPoint::Converters from (the directory where you called make install). Let's say it is stored in the environment variable $PPCPATH. Please ask your administrator for assistance if necessary.

Assumed the text source was stored in coffee.pp, you can call pp2html the following way now:


  pp2html -style_dir $PPCPATH/pp2html_styles -style orange_slides coffee.pp

Several files are made just where you are. To look at the result, open frame_set.html in a Web browser.

If you want to try another layout, try


  pp2html -style_dir $PPCPATH/pp2html_styles -style big_blue coffee.pp

and open slide0001.htm. Notice that with these layouts, a list of contents and navigation elements were automatically added for you, so that a presenter can easily switch between pages.

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