Escaping problem with relative path on Windows about decktape HOT 7 CLOSED

It may be related to ariya/phantomjs#14194. Is the CSS file path relative?

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In the HTML, there's this block:

    <script>
      var link = document.createElement( 'link' );
      link.rel = 'stylesheet';
      link.type = 'text/css';
      link.href = window.location.search.match( /print-pdf/gi ) ? 'conf1_files\reveal.js-3.2.0/css/print/pdf.css' : 'conf1_files\reveal.js-3.2.0/css/print/paper.css';
      document.getElementsByTagName( 'head' )[0].appendChild( link );
    </script>

I replaced (relative) paths to pdf.css with absolute paths (also replacing all backslashes with one forward slash):

<script>
      var link = document.createElement( 'link' );
      link.rel = 'stylesheet';
      link.type = 'text/css';
      link.href = window.location.search.match( /print-pdf/gi ) ? /E:/Code/conf1_files/reveal.js-3.2.0/css/print/pdf.css' : 'E:/Code/conf1_files/reveal.js-3.2.0/css/print/pdf.css';
      document.getElementsByTagName( 'head' )[0].appendChild( link );
    </script>

I don't get any error message when I run decktape but the result is not pretty... The same slide is repeated on all the slides and is an overlap of a few slides, not centered (i.e. text is cut as if text was out of the slide).

Do you have any suggestions on what I should do next or if you think this is a bug?

PhantomJS version: 2.0.0 (installed from Win 64 binaries)
Windows 7 Enterprise

Thanks

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The original issue is likely related to ariya/phantomjs#14194.

When you test with the absolute path, could you try adding the file:// prefix?

As you're using Reveal.js, one option is to run grunt serve so that it's served on http://localhost:8000 and export it by using HTTP.

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Ok thanks. And how would I export it using HTTP? With the Chrome PDF exporter plugin?

I tried creating the HTML (from markdown) with the self_contained = FALSE (I was using self_contained = TRUE). In the resulting HTML I get much more paths to reveal.js files but even after making the path modifications it doesn't work. In fact I get many more error messages (one for each of the paths its trying to access). Since when I use self_contained = TRUE I get only one error message (the one related to the <script> block mentioned previously, if I could find a way to "embed" what's in the "PDF export" <script> block as well would probably solve my problem but how to do it...

I will try it on my Linux machine at home see if I have more luck with using decktape.

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Ok I got it to work by after I saw one of the pandoc options that was generated in R, when it converts a markdown document into HTML. I noticed this option --variable "revealjs-url=conf_1_files\reveal.js-3.2.0", that I replaced with an absolute path. I couldn't add file:/// without an error in the call to pandoc (maybe due to this bug: jgm/pandoc#1558. I will try updating my verson of pandoc, which is pretty old). I added file:///E:/Code/... manually in the resulting HTML and decktape ran without error. And the PDF looks good!

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Great!

I'll update DeckTape once ariya/phantomjs#14194 is fixed so that we can test your use case.

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Should be fixed in version 2.0.1 that uses headless Chrome. Let me know if you still face this issue.

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