Is there something that explains the purpose of the different files in a PPTX file.
First off, what's the purpose of the SlideMaster files, & SlideLayout files? And how do they relate to the Slide files?
Second, there are multiple theme.xml files - why? Word & XL each have a single theme file. No reason PPT can't have multiple, but what drives that?
Third, there are several notes files. What is the purpose of those?
And finally there are a bunch of customXml files. What is the purpose of those?
thanks - dave
Google/OtherSearchEngine "OFFICEXML" (w/o quotes). That'll bring up several possible references that'll explain the various files.
SlideMasters/SlideLayouts govern the formatting and layout of slides based on the layouts. This is more a matter for a PowerPoint tutorial, not a programming help site, though.
The PPT user can apply different themes to different slides and/or inserted slides from other presentations may carry themes from the original presentation. Or the original template the PPT file's based on may have been designed with different themes (each of which becomes a new set of SlideMaster + child Layouts).
Several notes files: each slide may have its own "attached" notes text. There'll be a notes xml file for each slide's notes text.
It's sort of the nature of the idea of "custom" that it's special-purpose, something outside the normal spec. Custom XML may define the ribbon interface or it might be anything else that the developer needed.
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This question is motivated by the answer given in this question
Using the animate package without adobe
I want to create latex beamer presentations without relying on adobe, as it is a pain.
I followed the instructions given in the post's answer, and when compiling the given example code, the output were 4 .svg files, and I have no idea on what to do with them.
Something tells me they should be embedded into an html file that produce a slide-presentation, but I'm a complete noob in html and I've not been able to find an answer on how to achieve this.
No additional wrapper for the individual .svg files is necessary. Simply open the first .svg file in your browser and use the little arrows at the top right for navigation. They automatically link to the next slide.
I need to maintain some slides in both latex beamer and in powerpoint. (This is to make slides available for instructors elsewhere, too, 90% of which do not know how to use latex and are unwilling to learn it. and I am a latex guy on linux.)
I have tried the route via Libreoffice (and opendocument), but this did not come out well. right now, the best method that I have found is to author pdf in beamer, then run it through a nuance OCR program to get MS Word...and not even go all the way to Powerpoint (which is where I really need to be).
If I only had a markup language that produced nice Powerpoint, I could probably code a perl translator from markdown to this intermediate markup language. (going from markdown to latex beamer is relatively easy.)
I don't think this exists, but hope springs eternal. after all, it is almost 2014 now. does anyone know of a solution?
One solution is to use odpdown: It converts markdown to the OpenOffice Presenter format, which can be imported into PowerPoint.
It is not yet complete, i.e. table support is missing and possibly not running on certain Windows setups, but nevertheless it could be a start. Possibly, you have Linux running, where it seems to work.
Steve Rindsberg's answer in the comments works on PP 2007 works! Let me repeat it here:
I suspect that PowerPoint is the likeliest solution. ;-) But what sort
of slides are you creating? If they're simple heading and bullet point
slides, all you need to produce is a simple text file. Any text that
starts in the left column will be the heading of a new slide. Indent
one tab and it becomes a first-level bullet point under the current
heading; indent two tabs, it becomes a second level bullet point and
so on. Simply use File | Open on the text file to pull it into PPT.
Steve: Is this all that PP converts? Or is there a reference of other "sneaky" markup that PP knows about?
(pandoc: unfortunately, the conversion from libreoffice to powerpoint is pretty poor when I tried it last. I also tried to save and understand the powerpoint xml format, but that was REAL bad.)
The easiest way to handle this is to work with:
RStudio (and R if not already installed)
RMarkdown
Pandoc 2.0.5 (minimum)
Install those 3 (or 4) items, then read: https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/powerpoint-presentation.html
The installation time is worth the time saved copy-pasting everything from scratch.
I also am a Linux guy and I also use LateX engines to create nice documents. Based on my experience, here's what you should do :
Stop writing directly in LaTeX and start using org-mode to write documents instead (I spent years writing in LaTeX and now it's over (except when I use modernv package))
Org supports latex math formulas and .org files are easily exported in .tex files
Org can also be easily exported in markdown
Once you have your markdown, there are several tools that will allow you to create a PowerPoint. Two of them are pandoc and md2pptx
I'm looking for a nice way to generate either a Keynote file from XML or a Powerpoint file that I can then import to Keynote. Basically, I'm looking for a simple human-writable markup format (for easy scripting) that can be exported into slides.
I volunteer with a local nonprofit, where anything remotely technical falls to me. On a fairly regular basis, I'm sent information for events and produce a nice looking printed program in Word, though much of the same material also goes into slides in Keynote. (Keynote is used rather than PowerPoint so that Keynote Remote can be used.)
Anyway, there's a large volume of text I work with that I'm sent via email, and it has to go in both a Keynote presentation and a Word document, and requires all sorts of odd manual formatting to not break pages or slides at odd times, also requiring a good deal of manual restyling, since I'm not going to allow something I do to come out looking like something sloppy from the 1990s.
My hope is to write up a Ruby script that I can feed the source text to, and it'll go do all the processing for me, at least for Powerpoint or Keynote. I've normally had fantastic luck finding a gem for just about any format or service I've wanted to work with, but I haven't found anything that works with Powerpoint or Keynote.
My next thought was to have the Ruby code generate appropriate XML since both Office and I Work allegedly open the Office XML format, but I couldn't find any actual friendly documentation for human-writable XML code.
Is it wishful thinking to want to be able to do something like the following?
<SLIDE FORMAT="Title & Bullets">
<SLIDE_TITLE>
Lorem Ipsum
</SLIDE_TITLE>
<PARAGRAPH>
[etc.]
All I can find as far as converter scripts is all related to charts and tables and such which is of zero use here), usually revolves around opening or converting FROM Powerpoint or Keynote rather than creating, and furthermore generally seems to be for Windows using OLE or VBScript. This needs to run on the Macs they have there, so no Visual Studio stuff, Windows related scripting, etc will work. I don't HAVE to do it in Ruby, but that's what I'd be most comfortable with on the Mac end of things.
So is there documentation out there on a marginally friendly XML format for Powerpoint or Keynote, or even better, a Ruby gem for either?
If all you need to do is title + bullet point slides, you simply need to create an ascii text file. Each line of text will become the title of a new slide. But if the first character in a line of text is a tab, the line will become a first level bullet point on the same slide as the previous title. If two tabs, it indents the text to a second level bullet point and so on.
This becomes the title on slide one
This becomes the title on slide two
<tab>This is a bullet point, first level
<tab><tab>And this is a bullet point, second level
<tab>Back to first level bullet point
And another new slide
Once you have the text file, you can do File Open in PPT and force files of type to all files . and select your .TXT file. Or you can use Insert Slide From File to bring the .TXT file into an existing presentation.
There's a limit to the number of slides you can create at one go like this; 100 perhaps?
Note also that VBA disappeared in Mac Ofice 2008 but is back in Mac Office 2011, so if you can find examples of VB/VBA code that do what you want, you can use them on Mac, so long as it doesn't have to happen in Office 2008.
I am reading in template PDFs, customizing them, and appending pages before outputting the final document. What I want to do is modify the elements in the template I load before I append it to the output.
In particular I want to hide or remove images (and potentially other elements). I'm not even sure if elements in the imported page can be modified directly, if I can only add images (I haven't seen any sign of a removeImage() function) or what.
A little guidance would be greatly appreciated.
You should get hold of the book accompanying iText: iText in Action (1st or 2nd edition). It has some great examples of most things that can be done in iText.
Fist edition
Second edition
I believe you need to iterate through the pdf references in the reader to be able to identify images. I am not sure how one would replace them, but it's probably possible.
There are other libraries that do this better, pdfnet being one of them, but this is commercial.
I am writing a app which has about 10 nib files for conveying different UI messages and for taking user input. I want to know how to localize these messages that appear on my custom sheets. Is there any way i can have a single file with generic strings and depending on language it replaces the generic string with string in that particular language. also i want to know how to load dynamic strings into messages in custom sheets like file names or the number of files selected etc.
i have taken a look at ibtool but doesnt it duplicate the nib files by creating .lproj files for different languages? doing this simply makes the size of my app huge.
Thanks
At a Boston cocoa-heads meeting a while ago, we discussed this topic and came to a consensus that where two decent approaches.
1 - The first is it either use IBTool or manually make separate nibs.
2 - Gain programatic access to your labels and change the text programatically. Mipadi mentions Localizable.strings as being useful. To gain programatic access, you can either wire-up each label through IB, or you could do some king of walk-the-nib magic and find all of the labels (exercise left to the reader).
Pick whichever method fits your particular app.
Hope this helps,
JJ
This question might help: IPhone localization: Is it possible to translate nib files...
Standard practice is to have a nib for each language.
Your nibs shouldn't be more than 50-100 KB unless they're storing some uncompressed bitmap images, in which case you should load those images in code. Some components, like NSPathControl, will store uncompressed icons in the nib and add a few MB to the nib.
If you have a large .xib file open it in TextEdit and it should be obvious what's taking up all the space.
Probably worth to note that the current approach with Mac OS X 10.8 and auto-layout doesn't require multiple nibs anymore but a single .xib/.nib plus .strings files for each language.
The Times They Are A-Changin :-)
In addition to what Darren already posted, I would like to note that if you know most of your users are going to use English (or whatever the overwhelmingly most common language is), many developers will offer an English-only download that doesn't contain the nibs for other languages (thus reducing app size), and then also provide a multilingual download if desired.
Also, if you're programmatically generated UI elements, you'll want to take a look at the information for Localizable.strings, which is a text file containing translations for strings used programatically.
Wil Shipley recommends, and provides code for, localizing your nib files from strings files at run time.