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Present, export and share a deck

Build a deck to one web page and a PDF, present it, send it to the web app for review, and publish it at a link.

Building a deck makes two files: a single web page to present from and a PDF. From there you can present it, send the files, or share it in the web app, where your organisation can see it and you can publish it at a link.

Before you start

Build it

In the app

Click Build at the top of the deck editor, or on the deck's card on the Decks page. Save first if you have changes.

In the terminal

Build the deck:

showreel deck build launch

Skip the PDF for a quicker build:

showreel deck build launch --no-pdf

The deck's out folder then has:

  • <deck>.html: one page with the pictures inside it, whose fonts load from the kit's font address;
  • <deck>.pdf: the same deck as a PDF.

The first slide's title names the deck in its footer and the PDF.

Present it

  1. Click Present at the top of the deck editor. The deck opens in your browser.
  2. Move through the slides with the arrow keys, the space bar or Page Down.

PDF beside it opens the PDF. On the Decks page, each built deck's card has HTML and PDF.

Send the files

The page and the PDF are ordinary files, so you can email them, put them on a drive or attach them anywhere. The page opens in any browser.

Share it for review

Sharing sends the built deck to the web app, where everyone in your organisation can open it.

  • In the app, click Share for review at the top of the editor. After the first time it says Share again.
  • In the terminal:
showreel deck share launch

In the web app, the deck appears under Recordings, marked as a deck, with its page and PDF to view and download.

Add --publish to give the deck a link for your organisation:

showreel deck share launch --publish

Or open the shared deck in the web app and use its Publish card. The link opens a page of its own: the deck, which moves with the arrow keys, its slides as a list that jumps, and the PDF. Its views count how far each viewer got through the slides, and are listed on the Links page.

A link anyone can open is allowed only for a version made for an audience outside the company that passed its check. See Which cuts can be public and Decks for audiences.

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