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 < [email protected]> 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 [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAPaha9MiPXjH2Gf6R0Q5tL8aYBsJ%2BTe7eKf5w217JXwmMpZYyQ%40mail.gmail.com.
