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faster-beamer
An incremental compiler for LaTeX Beamer slides
Motivation
Compiling Beamer slides takes too long. I wanted to have a fast preview of my files even if the output is not 100% correct.
What it does
It parses your input file and compiles each frame
enviroment individually and in parallel.
Compiled frames are cached and only recompiled if necessary.
Of course, frame pages and citation will not be rendered correctly, but it should be sufficient to get an idea
how your frames will look like.
Executing the following line will let faster-beamer
watch your tex-file for changes, compile all frames on changes and only output
the frame that was changed most recently.
faster-beamer presentation.tex --server
If you want pdfunite to glue all the compiled frames together use:
faster-beamer presentation.tex --server --pdfunite
We can also try to reinsert the precompiled frames into the orginal document. This will yield the most accurate result (including title, section pages).
faster-beamer presentation.tex --server --unite
Requirements
- A Rust toolchain >= 3.39
- You need to have
pdflatex
inPATH
. Addidionally, alsopdfunite
if you want to unite PDFs.
Installation
cargo install --path . --force
Thanks
A modified version of https://github.com/santifa/latexcompile
is used in this project.
Dependencies
~9–20MB
~286K SLoC