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Syntax highlighting code for PowerPoint (Mac OS)
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How to add syntax-highlighted code to PowerPoint slides (Mac OS)

  1. pygmentize -f rtf FILE | pbcopy
  2. Paste into TextEdit (in rich text mode: Format → Make Rich Text before pasting), and copy to clipboard again.
  3. In PowerPoint, Edit → Paste Special… → Styled Text.

(Pasting RTF directly into PowerPoint doesn't work correctly, at least with PowerPoint 2008 — it extends colour spans longer than it should, and sometimes removes line breaks. Going via TextEdit seems to solve the problem.)

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benders commented May 22, 2015

Great tip! Seemingly obvious in hindsight, yet something I had not considered at all before.

For future readers, note that you can also read from the clipboard if you don't want to extract your snippets out to files: pbpaste | pygmentize -l ruby -f rtf | pbcopy. In this scenario the lexer (-l) should be specified, since there will be no filename to guess from.

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WHOW... this definitely makes my day. Need to prepare dozens of slides with (cucumber) code - your tipp saved hours! Thanx.

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Qi-Zhan commented Nov 4, 2022 •
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It really helps me a lot!
and for current PPT you could skip step 2

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