Questions about template application about pptx-automizer

[guotingchao]

const { join } = require("path");
const { Automizer, ModifyTextHelper } = require("pptx-automizer");

const generatorPowerPoint = async () => {
  const templatePath = join(process.cwd(), "/template");
  const outputPath = join(process.cwd(), "/output");
  const automizer = new Automizer({
    templateDir: templatePath,
    outputDir: outputPath,
    autoImportSlideMasters: true,
    removeExistingSlides: true,
  });
  automizer
    .loadRoot("Template-01.pptx")
    .load("Template-01.pptx", "master")
    .load("RootTemplate.pptx", "template");

  automizer.addSlide("template", 1, (slide) => slide.useSlideLayout());
  automizer.addMaster("master", 1);

  automizer.write(`test.pptx`);
};

[guotingchao]

RootTemplate.pptx and Template-01.pptx I've tried swapping use loadRoot and load

[singerla]

Hi! I am trying to reproduce this with templates from __tests__/pptx-templates directory of this repository. I was using a copy of SlidesWithAdditionalMaster.pptx as Template-01.pptx. It works as expected in all combinations...

If set to true, autoImportSlideMasters will make addMaster and useSlideLayout obsolete:

  // slide.useSlideLayout() is already executed by functionality behind autoImportSlideMasters
  automizer.addSlide("template", 1, (slide) => slide.useSlideLayout());

  // this will import first master & associated layouts from "Template-01.pptx"
  // again, so this makes a copy of a slideMaster within the root template.
  automizer.addMaster("master", 1);

Please notice: You won't need any slideMaster magic in case that all of your templates are using the same set of masters. If those are equal, you are not going to notice any difference in slide mode anyway :)

Please open slide master view in PowerPoint (as described e.g. here) and check if there are more slide masters and slide layouts as in original root template.

You could try this:

  automizer
    .loadRoot('RootTemplate.pptx')
    .load('RootTemplate.pptx', 'template')
    .load('SlidesWithAdditionalMaster.pptx', 'master');

  // will duplicate slideMaster #1 of 'RootTemplate.pptx'
  automizer.addSlide('template', 1);
  // will add slideMaster #2 of 'SlidesWithAdditionalMaster.pptx':
  automizer.addSlide('master', 1);

  await automizer.write(`test.pptx`);

This will output a three-master-presentation from our tests-files.

Happy mastering! :)

[guotingchao]

@singerla Thanks, this issue was caused by my biased understanding of the template and can be closed now.