How to convert IPython notebooks to PDF and HTML?

Question

I want to convert my ipython-notebooks to print them, or simply send them in html format. I have noticed that there exists a tool to do that already, nbconvert. Although I h

Answer 1

I can't get pdf to work yet. The docs imply I should be able to get it to work with latex, so maybe my latex is not working. http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-1.0.0/interactive/nbconvert.html $ ipython --version 1.1.0 $ ipython nbconvert --to latex --post PDF myfile.ipynb [NbConvertApp] ... raise child_exception OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory $ ipython nbconvert --to pdf myfile.ipynb [NbConvertApp] CRITICAL | Bad config encountered during initialization: [NbConvertApp] CRITICAL | The 'export_format' trait of a NbConvertApp instance must be any of ['custom', 'html', 'latex', 'markdown', 'python', 'rst', 'slides'] or None, but a value of u'pdf' was specified.

However, HTML works great using 'slides', and it is beautiful! $ ipython nbconvert --to slides myfile.ipynb ... [NbConvertApp] Writing 215220 bytes to myfile.slides.html

//Update 2014-11-07Fri.: The IPython v3 syntax differs, it is simpler; $ ipython nbconvert --to PDF myfile.ipynb In all cases, it appears that I was missing the library 'pdflatex'. I'm investigating that.