[groff] Creating a pdf slideshow

[Deri James]

Recently new features have been added to the gropdf device to allow 
presentation pdfs to be produced from roff files. Peter Schaffter has been 
incorporating the new features into mom, but I wondered how difficult it would 
be to incorporate it into other macro packages.

It turns out to be quite easy. I used the ms macros to create the attached 
pdf. It is the first time I have used the ms macros so apologies if I have 
made any newbie blunders. The command to generate the presentation is:-

groff -T pdf -ms ms-slides.rof > ms-slides.pdf

To generate a non-presentation version (which is easier to print), do:-

GROPDF_NOSLIDE=1 groff -T pdf -ms ms-slides.rof > ms-noslides.pdf

The changes in gropdf are in the current git version, so if you want to test 
the new features you will have to install the current git version. I would 
welcome further testing to make sure I've ironed out all the wrinkles.

Cheers 

Deri

ms-slides.rof
Description: Text document

ms-slides.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document