Rendering quarto presentation to pdf from html leaves (mostly) blank page when notes exist

[tonyelhabr]

Hi,

I think this may be completely intentional, but I noticed that when there is a speaker note on a slide, the slide gets split into 2 pages when saved to pdf with renderthis::to_pdf().

For example, slide 1 below gets split into pages 2 and 3 in the pdf (after the title slide on page 1), while slide 2 is, as expected, only on page 4.

---
title: "test"
format: revealjs
---

## slide 1

![](https://allisonhorst.github.io/palmerpenguins/reference/figures/README-flipper-bill-1.png)

::: notes
-   secret note
:::

## slide 2

![](https://allisonhorst.github.io/palmerpenguins/reference/figures/README-flipper-bill-1.png)

renderthis::to_pdf("test.html")

I don't think I can insert the html into this PR, but here's the resulting pdf.

[gadenbuie]

If you open the rendered slides in Chrome and use Chrome's print menu to print to PDF, do you get the same thing or something different?

[tonyelhabr]

hmm this functionally seems ok, although of course i don't want all the extra white space

[gadenbuie]

I tried your reprex and unfortunately I don't think there's anything specific that renderthis can do to help. Bascially, revealjs has a stylesheet that gets applied when printing the slides and in some cases it causes less than optimal pagination.

to_pdf() basically hands off to pagedown::chrome_print() and I do think we should allow more arguments in to_pdf() to be handed down to the underlying function (c.f. #57). But it's not clear to me which settings we would change to yield better results globally.

[tonyelhabr]

I tried your reprex and unfortunately I don't think there's anything specific that renderthis can do to help. Bascially, revealjs has a stylesheet that gets applied when printing the slides and in some cases it causes less than optimal pagination.

to_pdf() basically hands off to pagedown::chrome_print() and I do think we should allow more arguments in to_pdf() to be handed down to the underlying function (c.f. #57). But it's not clear to me which settings we would change to yield better results globally.

that's ok! it's a minor inconvenience tbh. please feel free to close this issue.