slideshow -> google slides?

[John Clements]

Has anyone here developed a reasonable workflow for exporting slideshow presentations to google slides? It appears that google slides cannot import PDFs or SVGs. It looks like it has support for importing PPT files, unsurprisingly, but AFAIK slideshow won’t export ppt files. I have no idea how nasty the PPT format is.

Right now I’m looking into PDFelement, a mac program, but I’d love to hear about other options.

Thanks!

John

[Gustavo Massaccesi]

From https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-microsoft-office-file-formats-so-complicated-and-some-workarounds/ about the old formats:

> These are binary formats, so loading a record is usually a matter of just copying (blitting) a range of bytes from disk to memory, where you end up with a C data structure you can use. There’s no lexing or parsing involved in loading a file. Lexing and parsing are orders of magnitude slower than blitting.

Probably an old .ppt is difficult to write, but a .pptx is probably just a bunch of .xml compressed with .tar.gzip or zip, and a fancy extension. (I didn't try myself, but I remember to have read something like that.)

I used a few times the trick to just write a html file with a few of the custom properties of Office and send it as a .xls or .doc . It works, better than I expected.

Gustavo

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[Hendrik Boom]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 06:58:28PM -0400, 'John Clements' via Racket Users wrote:
> Has anyone here developed a reasonable workflow for exporting slideshow presentations to google slides? It appears that google slides cannot import PDFs or SVGs. It looks like it has support for importing PPT files, unsurprisingly, but AFAIK slideshow won’t export ppt files. I have no idea how nasty the PPT format is.
>
> Right now I’m looking into PDFelement, a mac program, but I’d love to hear about other options.

Have you tried libreoffice or openoffice? (They're not the same, so one might work
if the other doesn't.) My wife used to make presentations from one of them a few
years ago, and as far as I know, they were powerpoint compatible. Unfortunately
she's not around to ask any more.

-- hendrik

[David Storrs]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 10:34 PM Hendrik Boom <hen...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:

On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 06:58:28PM -0400, 'John Clements' via Racket Users wrote:
> Has anyone here developed a reasonable workflow for exporting slideshow presentations to google slides? It appears that google slides cannot import PDFs or SVGs. It looks like it has support for importing PPT files, unsurprisingly, but AFAIK slideshow won’t export ppt files. I have no idea how nasty the PPT format is.
>
> Right now I’m looking into PDFelement, a mac program, but I’d love to hear about other options.

Have you tried libreoffice or openoffice?  (They're not the same, so one might work
if the other doesn't.)  My wife used to make presentations from one of them a few
years ago, and as far as I know, they were powerpoint compatible.  Unfortunately
she's not around to ask any more.

-- hendrik

I'm very sorry for your loss, Hendrik. My father died in 2019 and it's been agonizing, but I didn't live with him on a daily basis. I don't know how long it's been for you but I hope you're all right.

Dave

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> John
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[Hendrik Boom]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 09:58:15AM -0400, David Storrs wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 10:34 PM Hendrik Boom <hen...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 06:58:28PM -0400, 'John Clements' via Racket Users
> > wrote:
> > > Has anyone here developed a reasonable workflow for exporting slideshow
> > presentations to google slides? It appears that google slides cannot import
> > PDFs or SVGs. It looks like it has support for importing PPT files,
> > unsurprisingly, but AFAIK slideshow won’t export ppt files. I have no idea
> > how nasty the PPT format is.
> > >
> > > Right now I’m looking into PDFelement, a mac program, but I’d love to
> > hear about other options.
> >
> > Have you tried libreoffice or openoffice? (They're not the same, so one
> > might work
> > if the other doesn't.) My wife used to make presentations from one of
> > them a few
> > years ago, and as far as I know, they were powerpoint compatible.
> > Unfortunately
> > she's not around to ask any more.
> >
> > -- hendrik
> >
>
> I'm very sorry for your loss, Hendrik. My father died in 2019 and it's been
> agonizing, but I didn't live with him on a daily basis. I don't know how
> long it's been for you but I hope you're all right.

It's been just over a year.

I left her laptop on, just in case.

And yes it has stayed on for over a year.

It's a Mac. And I can't figure out how to use it -- still logged in as her, but if
I try to read the Mac beginners' quide all it does is ask for a password. I can
get to the Unix shell and use that, but I still have to keep dismissing the password
request.

-- hendrik

[Hendrik Boom]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 06:58:28PM -0400, 'John Clements' via Racket Users wrote:

> Has anyone here developed a reasonable workflow for exporting slideshow presentations to google slides? It appears that google slides cannot import PDFs or SVGs. It looks like it has support for importing PPT files, unsurprisingly, but AFAIK slideshow won’t export ppt files. I have no idea how nasty the PPT format is.
>
> Right now I’m looking into PDFelement, a mac program, but I’d love to hear about other options.

As well as the Open- and Libre-Office I mentioned before, you might try Krita. It's
a artist-grade draw and paint program, and it has a surprising number of tools.
I've heard that it can do vector graphics, but I've never actually tried that, so I
just don't know.

Let us know what turns out to work. I'm curious. I've had pdf files that work in
some but not other pdf viewers and even crash my printer, and anything that can
clean them up would be walcome. Sometimes just viewing and saving in one is enough
to make it work in others.

-- hendrik