Yeoman install with PDF export fail

[Simon Alberny]

Hello,
To reproduce it, use yo bespoke and keep the default values for everything but Would you like to generate PDFs?.
Resulting in:

> install-nw

/fooproject/node_modules/install-nw/cmd.js:121
  version = [v.major, v.minor, v.patch].join('.');
              ^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'major' of null
    at down (/fooproject/node_modules/install-nw/cmd.js:121:15)
    at init (/fooproject/node_modules/install-nw/cmd.js:72:11)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/fooproject/node_modules/install-nw/cmd.js:41:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:604:10)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:394:7)
npm WARN presentation-hello-world@0.0.0 No repository field.
npm WARN presentation-hello-world@0.0.0 No license field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! nw-shot@4.2.0 postinstall: `install-nw`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the nw-shot@4.2.0 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

I fix that with this trick (adding "nw" : "0.12.3" to the root of my package.json and doing an npm install). Still, launching gulp pdf results in:

[19:07:38] RangeError: Invalid array length
    at module.exports (/fooproject/node_modules/bespoke-to-pdf/index.js:43:18)
    at module.exports (/fooproject/node_modules/bespoke-pdf/index.js:13:10)
    at Gulp.<anonymous> (/fooproject/gulpfile.js:64:10)
    at module.exports (/fooproject/node_modules/orchestrator/lib/runTask.js:34:7)
    at Gulp.Orchestrator._runTask (/fooproject/node_modules/orchestrator/index.js:273:3)
    at Gulp.Orchestrator._runStep (/fooproject/node_modules/orchestrator/index.js:214:10)
    at /fooproject/node_modules/orchestrator/index.js:279:18
    at finish (/fooproject/node_modules/orchestrator/lib/runTask.js:21:8)
    at module.exports (/fooproject/node_modules/orchestrator/lib/runTask.js:60:3)
    at Gulp.Orchestrator._runTask (/fooproject/node_modules/orchestrator/index.js:273:3)fooproject

node@6.9.1
npm@5.3.0

[Dan Allen]

This has been addressed by the v3 proposal of the generator. See bespokejs/generator-bespoke#38. It just needs to be merged.

[Simon Alberny]

It seems to be great but no activity since Jul 4, 2016 so can we expect to be merged on day?

[Dan Allen]

The new generator is now available.

See https://www.npmjs.com/package/generator-bespoke

The preferred method for creating a PDF is print styles (print to PDF in Chrome). It's the only reliable way to make a PDF that looks like the presentation, IMO.

The print styles are not yet part of the generator. You can find them here: https://github.com/opendevise/presentation-bespoke-starter/blob/master/src/styles/print.styl