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minus-squareNewNewAugustEast@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoReally? Been a minute since I have done a presentation, but: Pandoc PDF to Markdown. Markdown to paste into your favorite HTML presentation tool. Nobody is stupid enough to still use Powerpoint right? Right?
minus-squareTaasz/Woof@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoOr the ‘modern workflow’ version of tell the AI you want to convert the PDF, so it burns a bunch of tokens installing pandoc and converting it for you!
Really? Been a minute since I have done a presentation, but:
Pandoc PDF to Markdown.
Markdown to paste into your favorite HTML presentation tool.
Nobody is stupid enough to still use Powerpoint right? Right?
Or the ‘modern workflow’ version of tell the AI you want to convert the PDF, so it burns a bunch of tokens installing pandoc and converting it for you!