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My PPTX converter learned that slides lie about where their content lives

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Built a PowerPoint-to-Markdown converter expecting slides to be simple containers: title here, bullets there, done. Turned out slide layouts, placeholders, and text boxes each have their own ideas about what belongs where. First version read only the title placeholder. Real decks put the actual hea…

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  1. 2026-10-23 15:01 · DEV Community — AI
    My PPTX converter learned that slides lie about where their content lives

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