Tiddlywiki Can Create Native Presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, and other applications

[Mohammad Rahmani]

I stumbled on an amazing JS library project on GitHub which was recently launched and simply created a presentation in open office xml
which is comparable with Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, and other applications!

I think it may be used to convert a set of tiddlers to slides and then click export to save a pptx or similar on your computer local drive.

See

code: https://github.com/gitbrent/PptxGenJS

demo: https://gitbrent.github.io/PptxGenJS/demo/

Best wishes

Mohammad

[Mohammad Rahmani]

Further thoughts:

Tiddlywiki can export tiddlers or bundles of tiddlers (e.g a booklet, a story, a chapter,...) into JSON, it should be able to export to open office xml (OOXML)

if so, TW would be able to export to Word, Powerpoint, ....

Other possibility to export to Latex, ....

Best wishes

Mohammad

[TW Tones]

Mohammad,

Nice discovery. Tiddlywiki aligning itself with common open source set of file formats, that are themselves supported by the proprietary software vendors is  sensible way to go. I would like to simplify the save to file template process so people feel more comfortable using tiddlywiki to generate common documents as output from there data.

I often see simple html is a common standard (if not dependant on external stylesheets and images). Also sometimes there are surprising advantages of copy and paste because different apps have ways to handle different paste formats.

I mentioned recently a desire to generate PDF directly, but another method can be special Print Drivers such as Print to PDF or Print to generic text printer (Eg generate local batch, code scripts)

Regaredsa

Tones

[PMario]

Hi,

The biggest problem I see with libraries like this is, that they only work in 1 direction. So if you edit your document in powerpoint, you can't easily convert it back to TW.

-m

[A Gloom]

Concerning exporting to Word, I had tried using a custom export template for html since Word can recognize html/open xml but does it terribly, it doesn't keep all formatting.  I don't know if MS ever corrected that issue or how well Open Office may import html from TW.

[jwd]

Instead of depending on a JS library one might do better to see if pandoc https://pandoc.org/ can take tiddlywiki formats as input and use those to convert to anything pandoc supports. The "do one thing well" philosophy as contrasted with zawinski's law. A web search suggests combining tiddlywiki with pandoc has come up before though.