You have a Slideshow in pptx or ppsx and they are full of animations? And you want to Print it out but all these animations and thinks layover each other? Then that simple python program will save you the day. All you have to do is download that little program, install all the missing packages with the shell.sh or bat.bat or via
pip install fpdf pyautogui pillow pynput PySimpleGUI
So to run the program without any issues, it's best to give Python (the Programming language) access to everything. For that you have to hob into your Settings --> Security --> privacy and search for full disk access. There you open the lock in the lower-left corner and click in the +-Symbol. Now you have to know where Python is on your Mac. Normally it's in
/usr/bin/python3
But in order to get there, you have first to press Command+Shift+Dot(.)
Then you have to go to WhateveryourMacisnamed MacBook --> Macintosh HD --> usr --> bin --> python3
And add it.
Now it should work just fine if not go to the same Folder and search for python (without 3) and add that as well
Note thta on MacOS you have to run the programm via terminal. You have to navigate to the folder via Finder.
Then go to Finder --> Services --> New Terminal Tab at Folder and type:
python ./screenshotter.py
And then run the screenshotter.py
- Choose if you are using Windows
- Choose you ppsx/ptx from your files
- Choose where your output pdf should be located and give it a name
- Choose the screen ratio of your slide-show
- Choose how fast the program will switch slides (if you have long animations that should be around 2)
- Choose if your presentation is in ppsx our in pptx
- Click start and watch it go
- After everything is captured and a new window will pop up
- You can now look around in the screenshots and select which of them you would like in your pdf
- If you are finished hit finish the program will create the pdf
- If it is finished it will close
- enjoy