On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:58:19 -0600 Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am using F20, all updated, but not completely sure this is > relevant. I have vast pages of Powerpoint presentations given to me by > colleagues. I of course don't like using them as is (LibreOffice seems > to be having trouble with Math generated by PPT for these slides). I > wonder if there is some easy way to convert these slides to LaTeX. I > have no problems touching them in beamer after a potential > conversion. I just don't have the time to type 500 pages up in beamer. Not to discourage you, but I find it unlikely that such a tool even exists, since the feature sets of TeX and PowerPoint are quite incompatible. Your best bet is to somehow export .ppt into a Word document (basically only text, pictures and equations --- no animations, no customized fonts, etc.). After that you might get away with using some tools on the lines of word2tex --- I know they exist, at least for Windows, because I've used one of them (waaay back in the day); they allow for some basic rudimentary conversion, and *might* get the job done, but don't count on any fancy stuff. Note that all this is going to be painful to the quality of the output, because this "translation" is not always 100% correct. And don't even begin to think about tables, pictures, markup of the text, etc. What you'll get is a TeX-processable output, but it will basically be one very big mess. The amount of work involved in sorting out that mess (to produce a reasonably sane output) is comparable to the amount of work needed to retype the whole thing in TeX manually from scratch. You need to evaluate the uniformity of .ppt input and the desired level of quality of .tex output before you even begin of thinking of something like automated conversion. That said, there is also a cheap&dirty trick that I once used --- you can export all slides of the .ppt into pictures (.jpg or such, one picture per slide), and then construct a .tex which will just put each picture on a separate page. But I am not sure that this is what you want to achieve here. I mean, you could also export .ppt to .pdf directly, and not bother with .tex at all. Anyway, good luck with the conversion, and if you manage to find some tool that does what you want reasonably well, be sure to report it here on the list, I'd really like to know about it! HTH, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
