Exporting¶
Manimble exports a deck for people who don't use Manimble: as PowerPoint, Keynote or Beamer slides, as a PDF, or as a movie. Use File ▸ Export To, or the Share button in the toolbar. Hidden slides are left out of every export.
PowerPoint and Keynote¶
- Choose File ▸ Export To ▸ PowerPoint (.pptx)… or File ▸ Export To ▸ Keynote (.key)….
- Choose the options in the Save panel:
- Every build as its own slide. On, each build becomes a slide, so the slide reveals its content click by click as it does in Manimble. Off, each slide is exported as its final build.
- Editable text boxes (recommended) keeps plain text as real text boxes, with font, size, colour, bold and italic, over a picture of everything else on the slide. Pictures only (exact look) exports each slide as its exact rendered picture.
- Click Save.
Formulas, shapes, lines, tables, pictures and plots are exported as pictures; only plain text stays editable. Animations aren't exported, although builds can become separate slides. Text positions can shift slightly if a font is missing on the computer that opens the file.
Keynote export creates a PowerPoint file and has Keynote convert it, so Keynote must be installed. If Keynote shows a dialog during the conversion, for example about a missing font, the export waits until you answer it.
A slide that is exported as a single picture carries the slide's alt text as the picture's description.
Beamer¶
Choose File ▸ Export To ▸ Beamer (.tex)…. The deck becomes a LaTeX Beamer presentation:
- each slide becomes a frame, and each build an overlay of that frame;
- with Editable text and LaTeX formulas (recommended), text stays real LaTeX text in its size, colour, weight and slant, formulas are written as LaTeX maths, and everything else is placed as pictures at its exact position;
- with Pictures only (exact look), each page is the exact rendered picture;
- speaker notes become
\note{...}.
Pictures go in a <name>-figures folder next to the .tex file. Keep the two together.
PDF¶
- File ▸ Export To ▸ PDF… saves a PDF with one page per slide, showing each slide's final build.
- Share ▸ Share PDF (every build)… makes a PDF with one page per build, for handouts that follow the talk step by step. Share ▸ Share PDF (one page per slide)… makes the shorter version. Both open the macOS share menu, so you can send the PDF by Mail, Messages or AirDrop.
- Share ▸ Save PDF… saves the one-page-per-slide PDF to a file, like File ▸ Export To ▸ PDF….
Movie¶
Choose File ▸ Export To ▸ Movie (.mp4, with animations)…, or right-click a slide in the navigator and choose Export Slide as Movie (.mp4)…. The movie is the animated show: every build plays once, at its playback rate, and then holds its last frame.
The Save panel asks for:
| Option | Choices |
|---|---|
| Slides | All, the current slide, or a list of navigator numbers, ranges and slide names, such as 1-3, 7, Results |
| Resolution | 720p to 4K. Slides not yet built at that size are built first. |
| Hold | How long each build's last frame is held, in seconds. The default is two. |
| Frame rate | Frames per second |
| Export with script | Includes the deck's script: narration as the soundtrack and the pointer drawn over the slides |
Without a script the movie has no sound. Loops play once, and builds that continue automatically pause for the hold like any other. Exporting at a resolution other than the one in Play ▸ Animation Resolution builds the slides again at that size.
To include a Manimble animation in a PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides deck, export the slide as a movie and insert the movie into that deck.
Python¶
File ▸ Export To ▸ Python (whole deck in one file)… writes the whole deck as a single .py file: helper modules
inlined, the slides in show order, and a SLIDES list at the end. It is a convenient one-file copy for sharing code.
Save it in the deck folder so relative paths, such as those of pictures, still work.
To share a deck with someone who uses Manimble, use File ▸ Package for Sharing… instead. See Projects and packages.