[Frequently Asked] Exported PPTX cannot re-edit

[yhatt]

PPTX converted in Marp (CLI / VS Code) has consisted by "pre-rendered slide images".

This output is sufficient to play your slide / add annotations on a familiar tool, but not suitable to handle text content / re-edit the content.

Why

Marp team's requirement to the converted output is almost 100% reproducibility to the slide design, and pre-rendered image is nearly perfect in regards to this point. We think it's too difficult to make an editable PPTX output with keeping the most part of complex HTML/CSS based layout.

Solutions

If you don't care about slightly less design reproducibility of the slide, you can convert editable PPTX.

Solution 1: Experimental --pptx-editable option (Marp CLI >= v4.1.0)

You have to install both of browser and LibreOffice Impress.

marp --pptx --pptx-editable your-slide.md

Warning

This is an experimental option and still incomplete. Some slides may throw an error or output the incomplete result. (e.g. Using gaia theme)

Solution 2: PDF to PPTX

You can get editable PPTX by converting exported PDF to PPTX too.

• Adobe Acrobat: PDF to PPTX

Related issues

• Generated PPTX is creating Master Slides, not Slides (as I was hoping) marp-cli#166
• Export to Native PowerPoint marp-cli#298