Broken for recent versions of deck.js

[kynan]

I'm using imakewebthings/deck.js@e42bd0c and running deckjs2pdf gets stuck at the 2nd slide (according to the webkit window popping up) and keeps saving slides until killed (happily thousands independent of the number of slides in the actual deck). The produced PDF is non-surprisingly corrupt.

[potyl]

Can you tell me which version of WebKitGtk that you're using? I think that under WebKitGtk 1.8 something has changed and the program doesn't detect when a slide is done.

Could you share more info about your environment? Is it Linux, OS X, ... ? The version of WebKitGtk installed. Also could you share your slides with me so that I can test this?

[kynan]

I'm on Linux Mint 13 using WebKitGtk 1.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1. I've tried using it on these slides: https://github.com/kynan/wolfhpc2012

[potyl]

WebKitGtk 1.8 and higher is no longer behaving as before. This means that even if the script would detect page changes properly the output would be of bad quality. The PDF files would be made of bitmaps instead of vectorial elements.

See #1 (comment) for complete instructions on how to to install libwebkitgtk 1.6, which should work.

Let me know if that helps.