Markdown Presenter

This is what I use for giving simple, quick-to-produce presentations. Rather than fighting with keynote or powerpoint for hours, I can whip up a presentation in minutes using markdown.

Demo and usage

Check out a demo here.

Supported devices and browsers

Markdown Presenter may work well on iPhone/iPad, Android, and PC Desktop browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE - if you want touch support, you can chose IE10 on Windows8 -).

Switching between slides

Use the arrow keys on your keyboard or swipe horizontally on touch screen to switch between slides.

Reloading

You can reload the presentation at any time - staying on the same slide number - by pressing the spacebar.

Transition effect

If you whould like to get fade in/out effect on switching between slides, type 'e' then 'f' key on your keyboard.
To reset this transition effect, type 'e' then 'n'.

Direct page jump

You can jump to the any slide which you want to show directly by 3 ways as follow:

by PowerPoint compatibe keyboard shortcut, such as '2','1','Enter' then jump to the slide at 21.
by chosing slide index from drop down list at bottom-right of the browser window.
by specification hash tag of URL.

Quick start for Windows OS users

Download zip ball from here.
Unblock download flag of the zip file from the property window in Windows Explorer.
Extract the zip file ino any folder, then start-presenter-for-windows.bat appear in that folder.
Double click start-presenter-for-windows.bat, then the default web browser is launched and open the presentation automatically.
You can edit and savepresentation.md by any text editor, and reloead presentation by hit space key.

Installing

You need to install this on a web server, otherwise it won't be able to open the presentation.md file via AJAX.

###MacOS or Linux OS So, if you're on a Mac, copy it to your ~/Sites/MyPresentation folder. Then open your web browser to http://localhost/~myusername/MyPresentation/Presenter.html.

On Linux or Mac you have also likely Python installed and can start its built-in web server in this directory by running python -m SimpleHTTPServer.

###Windows OS

####Tiny web server which is bundled with Markdown Presenter You can use tiny web server writen by Windows PowerShell script which is bundled with Markdown Presenter source code.

See the chapter "Quick start for Windows OS users" for details.

####IIS or IIS express If you use IIS or IIS express copy all the MarkdownPresenter files to the webfolder (normally C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\<SiteFolder> on IIS and C:\Users\<User>\Documents\My Web Sites\<WebSite> on IIS express).

Also make sure that a MIME mapping for the .md extension is added. Either add the following mimeMap element to the applicationhost.config or the web.config file:

<system.webServer>
  <!-- there might be other configuration here. -->
  <staticContent>
    <!-- there might be other configuration here. -->
    <mimeMap fileExtension=".md" mimeType="text/plain" />
  </staticContent>
</system.webServer>

Markdown file

The presentation.md file is where you put your presentation. All you need to do to separate slides is a paragraph with an exclamation mark, eg:

This is a slide
Blah blah blah

!

This is another slide
Yada yada yada

Printing Support

Markdown Presenter can print out the all slides to any printer from browser printing feature.

The keys to get fine result is follow:

Layout - Landscape
Margins - No margin
Options - Enable to printing background colors

And you can print out as a PDF file, so you can also upload and publish your slides to "slideshare.com".

How it works

The Presenter.html fetches the presentation.md from the server via Ajax, uses Showdown.js to transform it into HTML, splits it on <p>!</p> into individual slides, and displays the current slide.

Note: Showdown supports custom extensions that can either replace parts of the content based on a regular expression or transform the whole text. There are some extensions already available, for example prettify that adds support for syntax highlighting or support for tables.

The current version of the bundled Showdown.js is 0.3.1 from Nov 2012.

Reveal.js: full-featured HTML+JS presentation framework with support for Markdown in individual slides
PageDown - Stack Overflow's clone of Showdown

radare/MarkdownPresenter