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update readme re: pdf exports #1823

Hakim El Hattab 7 years ago
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@@ -847,10 +847,13 @@ Reveal.initialize({
 Presentations can be exported to PDF via a special print stylesheet. This feature requires that you use [Google Chrome](http://google.com/chrome) or [Chromium](https://www.chromium.org/Home) and to be serving the presention from a webserver.
 Here's an example of an exported presentation that's been uploaded to SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/hakimel/revealjs-300.
 
-In order to enable PDF print capability in your presentation, the following code must be inserted in the HEAD section of your HTML document.
+### Page size
+Export dimensions are inferred from the configured [presentation size](#presentation-size). Slides that are too tall to fit within a single page will expand onto multiple pages. You can limit how many pages a slide may expand onto using the `pdfMaxPagesPerSlide` config option, for example `Reveal.configure({ pdfMaxPagesPerSlide: 1 })` ensures that no slide ever grows to more than one printed page.
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+### Instructions
+To enable the PDF print capability in your presentation, the special print stylesheet at [/css/print/pdf.css](https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/blob/master/css/print/pdf.css) must be loaded. The default index.html file handles this for you when `print-pdf` is included in the query string. If you're using a different HTML template, you can add this to your HEAD:
 
 ```html
-<!-- Printing and PDF exports -->
 <script>
 	var link = document.createElement( 'link' );
 	link.rel = 'stylesheet';
@@ -860,9 +863,7 @@ In order to enable PDF print capability in your presentation, the following code
 </script>
 ```
 
-Export dimensions are inferred from the configured [presentation size](#presentation-size). Slides that are too tall to fit within a single page will expand onto multiple pages. You can limit how many pages a slide may expand onto using the `pdfMaxPagesPerSlide` config option, for example `Reveal.configure({ pdfMaxPagesPerSlide: 1 })` ensures that no slide ever grows to more than one printed page.
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-1. Open your presentation with `print-pdf` included in the query string i.e. http://localhost:8000/?print-pdf#/. This triggers the default index HTML to load the PDF print stylesheet ([css/print/pdf.css](https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/blob/master/css/print/pdf.css)). You can test this with [lab.hakim.se/reveal-js?print-pdf](http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js?print-pdf).
+1. Open your presentation with `print-pdf` included in the query string i.e. http://localhost:8000/?print-pdf. You can test this with [lab.hakim.se/reveal-js?print-pdf](http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js?print-pdf).
 2. Open the in-browser print dialog (CTRL/CMD+P).
 3. Change the **Destination** setting to **Save as PDF**.
 4. Change the **Layout** to **Landscape**.