# Exporting presentations
Presentations can be exported to PDF and HTML, to allow easily sharing the slide deck at the end of a presentation.
## PDF
Presentations can be converted into PDF by using [weasyprint](https://pypi.org/project/weasyprint/). Follow their
[installation instructions](https://doc.courtbouillon.org/weasyprint/stable/first_steps.html) since it may require you
to install extra dependencies for the tool to work.
> [!note]
> If you were using _presenterm-export_ before it was deprecated, that tool already required _weasyprint_ so it is
> already installed in whatever virtual env you were using and there's nothing to be done.
After you've installed _weasyprint_, run _presenterm_ with the `--export-pdf` parameter to generate the output PDF:
```bash
presenterm --export-pdf examples/demo.md
```
The output PDF will be placed in `examples/demo.pdf`. Alternatively you can use the `--output` flag to specify where you
want the output file to be written to.
> [!note]
> If you're using a separate virtual env to install _weasyprint_ just make sure you activate it before running
> _presenterm_ with the `--export-pdf` parameter.
> [!note]
> If you have [uv](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv) installed you can simply run:
> ```bash
> uv run --with weasyprint presenterm --export-pdf examples/demo.md
> ```
## HTML
Similarly, using the `--export-html` parameter allows generating a single self contained HTML file that contains all
images and styles embedded in it. As opposed to PDF exports, this requires no extra dependencies:
```bash
presenterm --export-html examples/demo.md
```
The output file will be placed in `examples/demo.html` but this behavior can be configured via the `--output` flag just
like for PDF exports.
# Configurable behavior
See the [settings page](../configuration/settings.md#presentation-exports) to see all the configurable behavior around
presentation exports.