My PPTX converter treated slide order as filename order — and learned that decks lie about their own spine
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Spent last week debugging why a pitch deck came back from my PPTX-to-Markdown converter with the appendix before the actual pitch. Turned out the slide files inside the .pptx package are named slide1.xml , slide2.xml , slide3.xml — but that numbering has nothing to do with presentation order. The r…
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- 2026-10-17 07:01 · DEV Community — AI
My PPTX converter treated slide order as filename order — and learned that decks lie about their own spine