https://github.com/mgedmin/mgp2pdf

MagicPoint to PDF converter
https://github.com/mgedmin/mgp2pdf

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MagicPoint to PDF converter

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mgedmin/mgp2pdf
• Owner: mgedmin
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2014-05-09T12:38:52.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-10T12:41:02.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-13T18:27:04.245Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://mg.pov.lt/mgp2pdf/
• Size: 1.53 MB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • Changelog: CHANGES.rst
  • License: LICENSE
  • Support: SUPPORT.rst

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mgp2pdf

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This is a quick-and-dirty MagicPoint_ to PDF converter.

.. _MagicPoint: http://member.wide.ad.jp/wg/mgp/

It supports only a subset of MagicPoint, specifically, the subset I've

used in my slides so far.  If you send me your slide decks, I'll make

mgp2pdf handle them too.

SUPPORT.rst has a list of supported and unsupported features.

BUGS.rst has a list of known bugs.

Installation

------------

::

    pip install mgp2pdf

Usage

-----

::

    mgp2pdf [-v] [--unsafe] slides.mgp [-o output.pdf]

    mgp2pdf [-v] [--unsafe] slides.mgp ... [-o directory]

    mgp2pdf [-h|--help]

Why another converter?

----------------------

I used mgp to produce slides for a Python course I taught at Vilnius

University.  However, since most of the students are not (yet) Linux

users, they couldn't use MagicPoint to view my slides at home.  There are

some converters from MagicPoint to PostScript/HTML, but the result either

looks ugly, or doesn't support Unicode characters.  MagicPoint itself can

produce a number of bitmaps (by taking screenshots), but those are big,

and the conversion process is inconvenient (you cannot use your machine

while mgp is busy rendering slides and taking screenshots).

I wrote a Python program to interpret MagicPoint commands and produce a

PDF file using ReportLab.  It can handle my slides (Lithuanian), but

otherwise it is probably incomplete.  Feel free to give it a try.  File

bugs for missing features, and I'll see what I can do.

Resources

---------

There's a web page, of sorts, at https://mg.pov.lt/mgp2pdf

The source code can be found at https://github.com/mgedmin/mgp2pdf.

Report bugs at https://github.com/mgedmin/mgp2pdf/issues.

Licence: GPL v2 or v3 (https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)

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