A colleague of mine is making some very nice Latex-based presentations, including a dynamically generated section-overview on each slide. Since all my current slide decks are made in Powerpoint I started working on a small tool that converts .pptx to .tex latex files. (make note: this tool won’t work with old-school .ppt files!)
The tool is far from done. But the basic functionality is there. Currently, the tool converts a .pptx file to a .tex and keeps the following slide information:
- All titles
- All text/bulletitems
- Including indentation
- All section headers
- Option to include hidden slides
- All images
- Each image is extracted and save as a separate file
I’m using the Open XML SDK 2.0 which allows more easy parsing of .pptx using C#. More info on how the tool was made might show up here someday.
Other features that I’d like to include is the ability to export the notes (shouldn’t be a problem) and some simple text formatting information (a bit harder).
You can download the source code on Github: https://github.com/timdams/Pptx2Tex
Tim Dams 
superb!!!!!
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how do I get a copy of this tool please? I require it quite often.
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For now you’ll have to download the githubcode and build it yourself. I’ll try to put up a compiled version later on,but cant promise how soon. Thx for the interest!
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How do i start with this? I have no clue,plz help me with step by step approach. also plz let me know about the installations needed. I have PCTEX installed in my laptop.
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But I do not know how to make use of the pptx2tex converter.
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You will need to compile the code to an actual executable. If you really need this, let me know and I’ll put up an exe.
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could you provide an exe please ?
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