I have begun using Rmd to render Powerpoint presentations consistently, using the YAML tags and more importantly, a reference Powerpoint to ensure standardized / consistent formatting:
output: powerpoint_presentation: slide: reference_doc: "reference.pptx"
. When I want to share a PPT document as a reference for my peers / students however, I want to be able to have my slides available as a .pdf file.
I have had success using shell commands in R using LibreOffice's soffice command, however I am not always at a workstation with that available. Is there a portable solution / executable I can call, or additional Rmd tags for rendering a document with a .pptx reference document, but rendered as a .pdf file?