Contents

• Installation
• Instructions
  • Getting a message description
  • Run a file check

Installation

System requirements:

• Python 2
• setuptools > 1.0
• java-7 (for LanguageTool)
• python-dev (python-develop)
• libxml2-dev
• libxslt-dev
• zlib1g-dev

To install system requirements on Ubuntu run follow commands:

$ sudo pip install setuptools --upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-lxml python-dev poppler-utils poppler-data

You can install slide with pip:

bin/pip install https://github.com/enkidulan/slidelint/archive/master.tar.gz

or zc.buildout (http://buildout.org):

$ git clone https://github.com/enkidulan/slidelint.git
$ cd slidelint
$ python bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout

There is no need to run "python bootstrap.py" each time, but you need indeed to run "python bootstrap.py" in the following cases:

• you building a new buildout
• you want to switch to a different python
• you want to switch to a different version of setuptools or zc.buildot

Instructions

Getting a message description

Command pattern:

slidelint help-msg [<msg_id>...]

Arguments:

msg_id id of slidelint message

Examples:

$ slidelint help-msg - return descriptions of all messages

$ slidelint help-msg W0101 - return description of W0101 message id

$ slidelint help-msg W0101 C0404 W0505 - return descriptions of W0101 C0404 W0505 messages ids

Run a file check

Command pattern:

slidelint [options] FILE

Arguments:

FILE Path to PDF presentation file

Options:

-h --help              show help message
-i --include-ids       include ids in report [default: False]
--config=<configfile>  path to configuration file
-f <format> --output-format=<format>  Set the output format
                                      (e.g. text,parseable,colorized,msvs,html,json)
                                      [default: text]
--files-output=<result_file>     save linting results to result_file file
-e <msg_ids> --enable=<msg_ids>  Enable the message, category or checker with the given id(s). You can either give multiple
                                       identifier separated by comma (,)
-d <msg_ids> --disable=<msg_ids>  Disable the message, category or checker with the given id(s). You can either give multiple
                                        identifier separated by comma (,)

Examples:

Read a configuration from default config and check presentation.pdf:

$ slidelint presentation.pdf

Read a configuration from default config, check presentation.pdf, and present the result as an html files(separated file for each category):

$ slidelint --files-output=linting.txt  -f html presentation.pdf

Read a configuration from default config file. Disable all checks from 'ContentQuality' category and disable check with name edges_danger_zone and message with id C1002. Enable 'language_tool_checker' checker (e.g. when you want to disable all checkers from ContentQuality that is enabled in config file but left only language_tool_checker from ContentQuality category).

$ slidelint -d C1002,ContentQuality,edges_danger_zone -e language_tool_checker  presentation.pdf

Read a configuration from my_config.cfg file, and include ids in the report and presentation.pdf

$ slidelint --config=my_config.cfg -i presentation.pdf

For more documentation look at docs directory.