# Creating Slides

It's time now to make our source a document. HTML can be displayed everywhere, so we choose the converter `pp2html` which converts PerlPoint sources into HTML pages. As mentioned before, the converter adds layout. HTML layouts can be configured very fine grained by the various options of `pp2html`, or one can use predeclared layouts called "styles". Luckily, `pp2html` comes with several example styles, so we take one of those.

Please remember where you installed `PerlPoint::Converters` from (the directory where you called `make install`). Let's say it is stored in the environment variable `$PPCPATH`. Please ask your administrator for assistance if necessary.

Assumed the text source was stored in `coffee.pp`, you can call `pp2html` the following way now:

      pp2html -style_dir $PPCPATH/pp2html_styles -style orange_slides coffee.pp

Several files are made just where you are. To look at the result, open `frame_set.html` in a Web browser.

If you want to try another layout, try

      pp2html -style_dir $PPCPATH/pp2html_styles -style big_blue coffee.pp

and open `slide0001.htm`. Notice that with these layouts, a list of contents and navigation elements were automatically added for you, so that a presenter can easily switch between pages.