Make sure you check the “Link” checkbox before pressing OK. Next, in PowerPoint, do “Insert Object” on your target slide, and choose “Create from file”. There are lots of themes included, you can ask highlight for help (highlight –help), and it’ll tell you all the options available, as well as all the options available for output, and for languages that it supports. The text will be 18pt Lucida Console and syntax highlighted with the “vim” color scheme.
This will take the source code file ‘infile’ and syntax color it as Ruby to an RTF file and output it to ‘outfile’. Highlight outfile –-rtf –syntax=rb –style=vim –font=”Lucida Console” –font-size=18 The highlight tool can output many formats, but the important one for Windows is RTF.
The reason I have Office for the Mac, is because I got it for free… KeyNote/Mac zealots: feel free to be zealous, but don’t hate on me because I’m frugal… unless you want to buy me a copy of iWork. I don’t have a copy of iWork, and I’m too cheap to buy one. I’m going to solely discuss PowerPoint (for Windows or Mac) here. UGH! What a disaster.īasically, it’s always an uphill struggle, and it really bothered me… so I decided to fix it once and for all. Then what happens when I spot a bug in code that’s in PowerPoint, or I want to add a comment, or I need to change the syntax highlighting theme of the entire presentation because it doesn’t go well with the lighting in the room.
So I switch to my “presentation settings” that has a light background and bigger font size, and then switch back once I’m done taking screenshots or outputting to html. The problem I usually run into, is that while I like coding on a dark background with a 14pt font, that’s not usually that great for presentations. Usually I resort to taking a screenshot, or finding an “export to html” type plugin for the editor I’m using at the time (Visual Studio, Vim, IntelliJ IDEA, etc.) and then try to get that somehow into my slides. Ever wanted a quick/easy/automated way to get syntax highlighted code from your editor of choice into PowerPoint?ĮVERY time I do a technical presentation I need this.
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