Slide Notes

by **jchenry** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:39 am

Jason,

Any thoughts on how one might go about adding slide notes to a deck? I have been looking at it for a few days, and cant seem to crack it.

Thanks.

by **jason** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:58 am

I created a pptx with slide notes, and ran it through PartsList.

I ended up with (irrelevant parts removed):

Code: Select all: Part /_rels/.rels [org.docx4j.openpackaging.parts.relationships.RelationshipsPart] containing JaxbElement:org.docx4j.relationships.Relationships Part /ppt/presentation.xml [org.docx4j.openpackaging.parts.PresentationML.MainPresentationPart] http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/officeDocument containing JaxbElement:org.pptx4j.pml.Presentation Part /ppt/notesMasters/notesMaster1.xml [org.docx4j.openpackaging.parts.PresentationML.NotesMasterPart] http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/notesMaster containing JaxbElement:org.pptx4j.pml.NotesMaster [additional reference] Part /ppt/slides/slide1.xml [org.docx4j.openpackaging.parts.PresentationML.SlidePart] http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/slide containing JaxbElement:org.pptx4j.pml.Sld Part /ppt/notesSlides/notesSlide1.xml [org.docx4j.openpackaging.parts.PresentationML.NotesSlidePart] http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/notesSlide containing JaxbElement:org.pptx4j.pml.Notes Part /ppt/slides/slide1.xml [org.docx4j.openpackaging.parts.PresentationML.SlidePart] http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/slide containing JaxbElement:org.pptx4j.pml.Sld [additional reference] Part /ppt/notesMasters/notesMaster1.xml [org.docx4j.openpackaging.parts.PresentationML.NotesMasterPart] http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/notesMaster containing JaxbElement:org.pptx4j.pml.NotesMaster [additional reference] Part /ppt/slides/slide2.xml [org.docx4j.openpackaging.parts.PresentationML.SlidePart] http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/slide containing JaxbElement:org.pptx4j.pml.Sld Part /ppt/notesSlides/notesSlide2.xml [org.docx4j.openpackaging.parts.PresentationML.NotesSlidePart] http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/notesSlide containing JaxbElement:org.pptx4j.pml.Notes Part /ppt/slides/slide2.xml [org.docx4j.openpackaging.parts.PresentationML.SlidePart] http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/slide containing JaxbElement:org.pptx4j.pml.Sld [additional reference] Part /ppt/notesMasters/notesMaster1.xml [org.docx4j.openpackaging.parts.PresentationML.NotesMasterPart] http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/notesMaster containing JaxbElement:org.pptx4j.pml.NotesMaster Part /ppt/theme/theme2.xml [org.docx4j.openpackaging.parts.ThemePart] http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/theme containing JaxbElement:org.docx4j.dml.Theme

You can see:
1. you need a reference from the MainPresentationPart to the NotesMasterPart
2. each SlidePart refers to its own NotesSlidePart (even if you didn't type any notes for that slide). These refer back to the SlidePart, and also to the NotesMasterPart.

So you'll need to create these Parts, populate them, then add them at appropriate places to create the above structure using AddTargetPart

A notes slide is just a shape tree:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<p:notes xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main" xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships" xmlns:p="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/presentationml/2006/main">
<p:cSld>
<p:spTree>
<p:nvGrpSpPr>
<p:cNvPr id="1" name=""/>
<p:cNvGrpSpPr/>
<p:nvPr/>
</p:nvGrpSpPr>
<p:grpSpPr>
<a:xfrm>
<a:off x="0" y="0"/>
<a:ext cx="0" cy="0"/>
<a:chOff x="0" y="0"/>
<a:chExt cx="0" cy="0"/>
</a:xfrm>
</p:grpSpPr>
<p:sp>
<p:nvSpPr>
<p:cNvPr id="2" name="Slide Image Placeholder 1"/>
<p:cNvSpPr>
<a:spLocks noGrp="1" noRot="1" noChangeAspect="1"/>
</p:cNvSpPr>
<p:nvPr>
<p:ph type="sldImg"/>
</p:nvPr>
</p:nvSpPr>
<p:spPr/>
</p:sp>
<p:sp>
<p:nvSpPr>
<p:cNvPr id="3" name="Notes Placeholder 2"/>
<p:cNvSpPr>
<a:spLocks noGrp="1"/>
</p:cNvSpPr>
<p:nvPr>
<p:ph type="body" idx="1"/>
</p:nvPr>
</p:nvSpPr>
<p:spPr/>
<p:txBody>
<a:bodyPr>
<a:normAutofit/>
</a:bodyPr>
<a:lstStyle/>
<a:p>
<a:r>
<a:rPr lang="en-AU" dirty="0" smtClean="0"/>
<a:t>Here are my notes.</a:t>
</a:r>
</a:p>
<a:p>
<a:pPr algn="ctr">
<a:spcBef>
<a:spcPts val="600"/>
</a:spcBef>
</a:pPr>
<a:r>
<a:rPr lang="en-AU" dirty="0" smtClean="0"/>
<a:t>Line 2</a:t>
</a:r>
</a:p>
<a:p>
<a:r>
<a:rPr lang="en-AU" dirty="0" smtClean="0"/>
<a:t>You can do </a:t>
</a:r>
<a:r>
<a:rPr lang="en-AU" b="1" dirty="0" smtClean="0"/>
<a:t>bold.</a:t>
</a:r>
<a:endParaRPr lang="en-AU" b="1" dirty="0"/>
</a:p>
</p:txBody>
</p:sp>
<p:sp>
<p:nvSpPr>
<p:cNvPr id="4" name="Slide Number Placeholder 3"/>
<p:cNvSpPr>
<a:spLocks noGrp="1"/>
</p:cNvSpPr>
<p:nvPr>
<p:ph type="sldNum" sz="quarter" idx="10"/>
</p:nvPr>
</p:nvSpPr>
<p:spPr/>
<p:txBody>
<a:bodyPr/>
<a:lstStyle/>
<a:p>
<a:fld id="{2C9E680F-9556-4432-A73C-3BDC21FB7A10}" type="slidenum">
<a:rPr lang="en-AU" smtClean="0"/>
<a:t>1</a:t>
</a:fld>
<a:endParaRPr lang="en-AU"/>
</a:p>
</p:txBody>
</p:sp>
</p:spTree>
</p:cSld>
<p:clrMapOvr>
<a:masterClrMapping/>
</p:clrMapOvr>
</p:notes>
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I'll leave it to you to (1) look inside the notes master slide, and (2) determine what is optional or not (the notes master? or empty slide notes on a slide which doesn't need any?).

Hope this helps .. Jason

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