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by scep12 2216 days ago
This is an awesome deck. I'll be bookmarking this as a great resource to pass along.

Tangent: although the portability and consistency of PDFs is nice, I'd love a browser extension that gave me a nicer view of slides that were exported as a PDF. I find there's something more satisfying about discrete pagination vs continuous scroll for these types of things.

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On Firefox and maybe on chrome, if you set the page height to fit, it will go in presentation mode and space bar goes to the next slide
Are there any good parsers to convert pdf to html/epub? It would rely on the pdf being well structured.
Pandoc has worked for me.| it literally does everything.
Acrobat does very well in my experience.
Left/right arrow keys does it for me on Firefox
Foxit does pagination.
Don't most PDF viewers? Apple's native PDF viewer (which isn't available on Linux, so not a solution here, but which isn't terribly feature-rich so that I assume that whatever it can do most any browser can do) switches at a keypress among continuous-scroll, one-page, and two-page views.