My university has their own powerpoint themes. Is there any sort of way to “import” these themes, or would I have to make them from scratch?
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Pretty sure you would.
WYSIWYG apps usually come with one or two backgrounds, different title/subtitle/main text boundaries and a custom list marker. Is there anything else? (That’s much more shallow than what WYSIWYM programs’ themes can provide.) That’s very trivial to do with basic setup. With packages like Touying it can be more cumbersome, but still possible.
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In Powerpoint, export all different pages without text as PDF. Then embed these PDF pages in Typst and use them as background. Now, you only have to reproduce the text boxes, text colors, text sizes and fonts.
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Why embed is in backticks?
Right, the correct way is of course to use image function, which now supports PDF.
Saving as JPEG/PNG images also works, moreover it’s a more common format for background images by far.
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What’s the advantage of using JPEG or PNG when PDF works? JPEG/PNG requires rasterization which is lossy and often gives larger files.
I don’t think there are native themes that use vector graphics, not sure if you can even set SVG as a background. Since lossless format is not PDF, you can’t be sure that PDF is lossless. JPEG is very nicely shrunk when included in Typst (even some PNGs, PDFs are not shrunk at all), so advantages are that the (PDF) file size is smaller (no PDF boilerplate bytes), and you can share/repurpose the image in almost any other software (make a wallpaper). Very few pieces of software support PDF.
In case you can actually set background as SVG or have native vector themes and exporting to PDF preserves the crispiness, then PDF image is the way, but of a limited utilization. But I kinda doubt it’s possible, or at least common enough to find one. I haven’t researched this, and I don’t have the software to test it out.
Aren’t templates often produced with vector tools (for example those you find in PowerPoint itself)? At least the fancy templates I have found online seem to have vector content. See for example this one to pick a random example. Unzipping the file and looking at the layout xml shows vector content. And indeed when I save as PDF I can open the file in Inkscape and edit the vector content.
For compatibility, I don’t know if people often need to repurpose slide templates but if they do, it seems easier to rasterize the PDF at the desired resolution than the other way. For example you can always zoom and take a screenshot, but it’s also possible to extract the images from the PDF.
I can’t answer that.
Welp, TIL.