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weird spacing with reveal

See original GitHub issue

The following command results in a PDF with too much spacing below the title in some slides.

decktape reveal -size 960x700 http://reagle.org/joseph/talks/2018/05-ica-lifehack.html test.pdf

For example, look at slide #5, “Genres”. It’s a 3 item numbered list, but item 3 is pushed off the bottom because of the spacing below “Genres”.

test.pdf

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments:29 (7 by maintainers)

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hvwaldowcommented, Jan 21, 2019

A workaround seems to be increasing (very much) the size. For example using --size='2048x1536' instead of --size='1024x768' works for me.

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jonathan-gcommented, Nov 9, 2022

One option is to roll back to version 1.0, which is the last time decktape worked reliably for reveal.js slides: https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape/releases/tag/v1.0.0

This isn’t @astefanutti’s fault. It’s a bug with Chromium that needs to be fixed by the Chromium developers, and there’s nothing that decktape can do about it.

Decktape needed to move to Chromium/Puppeteer because since 2018, PhantomJS is no longer maintained (https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/15344), so the old version of decktape that relied of PhantomJS won’t be stable.

Basically, it’s a bad situation, but there’s not much any of us can do.