#dzslides

I use markdown a lot in my day to day work to structure my notes when I'm not using pen and paper.

I was looking into quickly turning a few notes from a demo to slides, this couldn't be easier with pandoc.

First you need to install it, pertty easy with winget:

winget install --source winget --exact --id JohnMacFarlane.Pandoc

Afterwards, just covert your markdown to an html slideshow:

pandoc -t dzslides -s myslides.md -o myslides.htm

This uses the dzslides plugin and is quite nice.

Here is a kick ass example of dzslides and the doc:

example: Why you should fear the Ninja Turtles

doc: dzslides

I also discovered that you can convert it to powerpoint in a breeze.

I converted the master template of my company to match the documentation. For this go under View > Slide Master and respect the names in the pandoc doc Powerpoint layouts

You are ready to generate your powerpoint:

pandoc myslides.md -o myslides.pptx --reference-doc another.pptx