How to convert GoPresent to PDF?

Tom Limoncelli

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Oct 14, 2025, 3:57:41 PM Oct 14

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I made a presentation using the Present package ( https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/present ) but I'd like to convert it to PDF.

I've used github.com/mmcloughlin/podium but it requires chromedriver which is no longer supported.

Are there alternatives? Web searches find nothing.

Thanks,

Tom

Jason E. Aten

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Oct 14, 2025, 8:35:36 PM Oct 14

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Somewhat embarrassing to admit, but I've resorted in

the past to just taking screenshots and then stuffing them

into a pdf file. The size was about 30KB per slide.

If that's too big, you could also try to de-rasterize your

screenshots back into vector graphics to get compression

with... services? image magick? https://convert.guru/raster-converter kind of thing.

Kevin Chowski

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Oct 14, 2025, 10:14:41 PM Oct 14

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Can you use the present command to host the webpage, open it up in your favorite browser, and print to PDF?

Sebastien Binet

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Oct 15, 2025, 1:32:41 AM Oct 15

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Hi,

In the old days, I did this little thing:
https://codeberg.org/sbinet/present-tex

(Now, I would probably do it with Typst instead of LaTeX)

htw,
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Taco de Wolff

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Oct 20, 2025, 3:54:18 PM Oct 20

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Hi,

You could take a look at https://github.com/tdewolff/canvas for generating PDFs, but you need to build a MarkDown to canvas drawing operations layer in-between. This will probably result in the smallest PDF size, since Canvas is optimised to generate small PDFs.

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Brian Candler

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Oct 21, 2025, 3:40:03 AM Oct 21

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Are you sure chromedriver is no longer supported? It appears to be available for current versions of chromium:

https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/

Searching "golang headless browser" also turns up https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp

If necessary, maybe you can fork podium and rework it to use this interface instead of WebDriver.

Brian Candler

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Oct 21, 2025, 3:41:36 AM Oct 21

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P.S. The new download location is linked from here:

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/chromedriver/

" Starting with M115 the latest Chrome and ChromeDriver releases per release channel (Stable, Beta, Dev, Canary) are available at the Chrome for Testing availability dashboard . "

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