Build Script for Latex-beamer based course handouts
What is it does:
- Build multiple LaTeX beamer slide sets with one command:
python build.py - Convert the slides to a printer-friendly format (no slide transitions, 6 slides per page, less colors)
- Build a main "course handouts book" with all the slides (one chapter per beamer slide set, title page, introduction, table of contents,...)
- Create a .zip archive with all the documents
The scripts starts multiple processes in parallel to build all slide sets at the same time. This results in a big speedup on multi-core systems.
Dependencies:
- pdflatex - PDF output from TeX
- pdfjam - A shell script for manipulating PDF files
Typical output:
Example .zip output: https://github.com/jeroendoggen/latex-handouts-builder/blob/master/Handouts/ExampleHandoutsBook.zip?raw=true
user@computer~/latex-handouts-builder$ python build.py
The following files will be processed:
1. chap1.tex
2. chap2.tex
3. chap3.tex
4. chap4.tex
5. chap5.tex
6. chap6.tex
7. chap7.tex
8. chap8.tex
9. ExampleHandoutsBook.tex
Output written to: ExampleHandoutsBook.zip
Build took 10 seconds