From: Phillip Dudley <predatorian3-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: pandoc-discuss <pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Unable to create PPTX from default PPTX Reference Document using Markdown
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:17:32 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4135bd01-a2b2-42ae-86b4-277cf50994a3n@googlegroups.com> (raw)
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That blog's formatting is to be desired. I'll give this a read through and
see if I can figure out how to edit the Master Slides in LibreOffice
Impress. Will report back with findings.
On Monday, April 12, 2021 at 9:54:52 PM UTC-5 Matt Jolly wrote:
> I did some work on this late last year: from memory you are able to use
> any pptx (within reason, as indicated by the manual) and modify styles /
> slide templates appropriately. Note that you need to modify Slide Masters,
> not the slides themselves (again, from memory...)
>
> For **table styles**, however, there does not exist an interface within
> PowerPoint to modify these at the style level. You need to manually modify
> the XML within your template, see
> http://www.brandwares.com/bestpractices/2015/07/xml-hacking-custom-table-styles/
> for more information. It *does* work, and table styles are used when tables
> are generated within a slide, however even Microsoft's Office XML validator
> is unable to tell you if your table styles are correct; you need to try and
> open the document in PowerPoint and see if you get any errors.
>
> On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 8:13:45 AM UTC+10 predat...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
>
>> I guess I'm not seeing on the documentation where it is called out how to
>> modify those styles? Some GitHub issues I saw said to unzip the PPTX and
>> then look for some XML file that called out the four styles called out in
>> the documentation. However, that didn't make sense to me.
>>
>> Does anyone have any examples of how to successfully, and clearly
>> explained, do this?
>>
>> On Friday, April 9, 2021 at 11:56:19 AM UTC-5 John MacFarlane wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Generally speaking, the only modifications that are going to work
>>> in a reference.docx or pptx are the changes to the styles
>>> as described in the manual. If you add images, notes, etc.,
>>> you're likely to get a corrupted file.
>>>
>>> Phillip Dudley <predat...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>>
>>> > I wanted to try making a PowerPoint using Pandoc and Markdown, but use
>>> a
>>> > template that had some images already in the template. I saw that you
>>> can
>>> > generate a reference document by doing:
>>> >
>>> > - https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#options-affecting-specific-writers
>>> >
>>> > The command:
>>> >
>>> > pandoc -o custom-reference.pptx --print-default-data-file
>>> reference.pptx
>>> >
>>> > Then I added a background image to the first slide, saved the
>>> > custom-reference. I then tried to build the new PPTX using
>>> >
>>> > #cat Makefile
>>> > .PHONY: build
>>> >
>>> > build:
>>> > pandoc \
>>> > --reference-doc custom-pptx-reference.pptx \
>>> > --output slides.pptx \
>>> > content.md
>>> >
>>> > I then get the following errors:
>>> >
>>> > filbot@pop-os ~/D/D/L/PPTX> make build
>>> > pandoc \
>>> > --reference-doc custom-pptx-refernce.pptx \
>>> > --output slides.pptx \
>>> > content.md
>>> > Could not find shape for Powerpoint content
>>> > make: *** [Makefile:4: build] Error 63
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Am I misinterpreting the documentation on how to use this?
>>> >
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2021-04-07 21:26 Phillip Dudley
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2021-04-09 16:56 ` John MacFarlane
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2021-04-12 22:13 ` Phillip Dudley
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2021-04-13 2:54 ` Matt Jolly
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