Exported pptx cannot be edited

[kanglinyao]

Exported pptx cannot be edited by powerpoint.

[yhatt]

It's an expected result. In general, tools generating web-based presentation cannot create a reliable and editable pptx. (e.g. Marp, GitPitch Pro) Refer to the reason explained in marp-team/marp-cli#166 (comment).

Marp focuses to keep beautiful looking slides regardless of the kind of conversion. Rendering images is the best way for that. Creating editable PPTX is very hard because it's like re-creation of HTML rendering engine. Perhaps it would be much larger project than Marp.

If you want editable PPTX, we recommend to convert exported PDF into PPTX by Adobe Acrobat. However, I suppose the reproducibility of output is not good even if this. (different fonts, incorrect shadow rendering, etc...)

Current PPTX generation (Not editable / Perfect reproducibility)	PDF -> PPTX by Adobe Acrobat (Editable / Incorrect renderings)

Originally posted by @yhatt in marp-team/marp-cli#166 (comment)

You should always edit Markdown to change the content.

[CyrusYip]

You can convert pdf to pptx via ilovepdf. I hope this helps you.

[aimerneige]

You can convert output PDF to PPTX by Adobe Acrobat.

[tdb-alcorn]

Just dropping this here as it worked well for me: https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/pdf-to-ppt.html

My only issue was the fonts were a little off.

[kongdd]

whether it is possible using acrobat.exe to convert pdf to pptx in the cmd mode?

[yhatt]

@kongdd

Adobe community has answered simply "No" for command line solution of PDF -> PPTX via Adobe Acrobat. As far as I saw, any alternative products (Solid Converter, Smallpdf desktop, Foxit PDF editor, Nitro PDF, etc...) also have not the command line interface.

— marp-team/marp-cli#141 (comment)

[fastfading]

@kongdd

Adobe community has answered simply "No" for command line solution of PDF -> PPTX via Adobe Acrobat. As far as I saw, any alternative products (Solid Converter, Smallpdf desktop, Foxit PDF editor, Nitro PDF, etc...) also have not the command line interface.
— marp-team/marp-cli#141 (comment)

https://github.com/ashafaei/pdf2pptx
this is the best tool I found
could it be integrated into vscode marp plugin ？

[kongdd]

@fastfading

I convert all the slides to high-quality image files first, and then push them into a Powerpoint project as a slide. https://github.com/ashafaei/pdf2pptx

So the exported ppt still cannot be edited.

[pvanand07]

@kanglinyao

1. pdf->ocr pdf https://www.ilovepdf.com/ocr-pdf
2. ocr pdf --> ppt https://www.ilovepdf.com/pdf_to_powerpoint
   This works well

[yhatt]

We have created a draft pull request for Marp CLI, to add experimental feature for making editable PPTX powered by LibreOffice. (marp-team/marp-cli#626)

After this feature was shipped, we would be able to implement the same feature in VS Code.