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So I'm working on a new presentation for my local Perl Mongers group, and (indirectly) thanks to Ricardo Signes, I've got a cool way to get properly syntax colored code into my slides.

Ricardo has been working on an easy way to get syntax colored code into Keynote presentations. I wondered why he was bothering to convert the syntax colored code to RTF - then I realized why - I think because TextEdit.app on Mac OSX is a cocoa application, the font coloring is preserved through copying and pasting the code into Keynote, another cocoa application.

A little later on, I was creating some other presentation, and was copying some code out of my blog and happened to notice that the code I copied and pasted from Safari, my web browser, also retained its coloring information.

Problem solved, right? Anything I want to put into a Keynote slide, I should blog about first. Right?

Wrong.

That's too much blogging.

Instead, I wrote a teeny tiny little CGI to post up the syntax colored source of anything sitting around on my server, using the same Text::VimColor module on the backend.

This is that CGI:

... and then a little HTML to display it in the right font, font size, and using my standard code stylesheet - which is left as an exercise for the reader.