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My PPTX converter silently dropped half a pitch deck — SmartArt text lives in a different XML part

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A user ran their investor deck through my PPTX-to-Markdown converter and chunks of content just vanished. No errors. Titles, bullet lists, tables all fine — but an entire market-growth section came back nearly empty. I unzipped the .pptx (it's just a ZIP of XML parts) and compared a broken slide ag…

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  1. 2026-10-05 23:36 · DEV Community — AI
    My PPTX converter silently dropped half a pitch deck — SmartArt text lives in a different XML part

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