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 On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 7:58 PM 'John Clements' via Racket Users < racket-users@googlegroups.com> 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. > > Thanks! > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/7a2b8538-91f9-45e2-9006-5e8047d39973%40mtasv.net > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAPaha9MiPXjH2Gf6R0Q5tL8aYBsJ%2BTe7eKf5w217JXwmMpZYyQ%40mail.gmail.com.
