Advanced ppt production with python ?

[lcrmorin]

Description

I have started trying to customise a ppt template to produce professional grade presentation. So far I manage to change some stuff, but there seems to be quite some undocumented things (eg. main pages / sections works as expected, but other stuff - author - dates - sub titles - footers - format sometimes present unexpected behaviours). Are there some more advanced exemple of notebook to ppt generation ?

Best,
Lucas

[cderv]

For PowerPoint with Quarto, this is only supported through Pandoc's own support.
Customization can only be done through a reference document, and only some layouts are supported: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#powerpoint-layout-choice

If you can fit your presentation into this constraint, then you can use Quarto to produce this presentation directly specifying the reference-doc

Otherwise, Quarto alone won't be enough. I know some workflow could be done by

• Rendering a PPTX using quarto render
• Post processing the PPTX using a tool that can read PPTX and write it back.

For example, in R ecosystem, officer package is one option. https://ardata-fr.github.io/officeverse/officer-for-powerpoint.html

Another option that Quarto / Pandoc offers is tweaking processing in Lua filters
https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/filters.html

However, this would require producing raw openxml for PowerPoint for advanced customisation, and the documentation about the openxml spec is rather sparse.

Hope it helps understand current context.

[lcrmorin]

I honestly made some progresses on the topic. However, I am stuck at setting a default table style. Apparently this is a problem on powerpoint side. Powerpoint doesn't allow to create table custom style. This is insane. It completely kills any attempts at setting a nice template in a professional context.... There seems to be additional solutions (post processing the ppt, using some macro ...), but nothing as easy as setting a default custom style.

... Meanwhile the whole Microsoft Company seems busy pushing counterproductive AIs and hiking their price.

[lcrmorin]

Cheeky solution offered by an intern: change the company colour code to match one of the default style... that might be easier.