Fiddling with direct manipulation of OOXML is not to be relied on. The vocabulary is too complex and the whole approach will be clumsy.
I thought about a XLSF-FOP plugin too but gave up because of lack of time. FOP provides a pluggable API for output format writers: there are writers for PDF, RTF, text, awt, etc. We can try to hook a writer for PPTX . FOP will compute the layout and call XLSF to build the presentation. I'm not fully sure that it will work but the idea is worth trying. Technically speaking, adding support for notes in XLSF is not that hard. The best way to understand how Presenatation ML does it is to create two simple presentations: one without notes and the other with a notes attached. Then unzip and diff the files. Yegor On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:52 PM, honyk <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm also working on code to generate new slides from a simple XML >> format >> that represents generic slide show content (that is, something that is >> relatively easy to generate from other stuff, like existing XML or >> whatever). > > Recently I've investigated possibilities to convert DocBook XML (a subset > only) into PPTX directly, but I've given this up. > > 1. PPTX vocabulary is too complex > 2. There are limitations in XSLT in determining the available space for > laying objects out on the slide (and handling overflows to next page if > needed). I wish it was supported by any XSL-FO processor. > 3. I ended up in generating PDF slides from XSL-FO and converting this PDF > into PPTX using the Adobe Acrobat XI. While this conversion is not mature > yet, the output is far better than from other tools I tested. > 4. Previous step cannot handle features like slide notes. And this is the > reason why I've joined the POI dev list :-) While reading notes is > supported, there is no way to insert your own into the existing presentation. > I'd like to help with it. > > Jan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
