[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: Enable experimental option (Marp CLI >= v4.1.0 / Marp for VS Code >= v3.1.0)

You have to install both of browser and LibreOffice Impress.

Marp CLI

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

Marp for VS Code

Set markdown.marp.pptx.editable preference as true.

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