An error occurred while processing /ppt/slides/slide4.xml

[igor-sobolev]

Background: need to append PptxGenJS buffer presentation into the main one, for some reasons just appending slides cut off last 2 slides, so was trying to combine .loadRoot and .load for getting root template but getting empty array for pres.getTemplate('myTemplate.pptx').getAllSlideNumbers(). There's an unknown issue with reading slides when reading presentation info (one example below):

An error occurred while processing /ppt/slides/slide4.xml: [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/USER/workspace/PROJECT/utils/csvs/tmp/templates/presentation.pptx/ppt//ppt/slides/slide4.xml'] {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'open',
  path: '/home/USER/workspace/PROJECT/utils/csvs/tmp/templates/presentation.pptx/ppt//ppt/slides/slide4.xml'
}

I can see it's extracted into temp folder I use, but I don't see anywhere ppt// mentioned.
Seems like I have troubles with a prefix of ppt// when accessing presentation with await pres.getInfo(). The error persists both for jszip and fs modes. I could skip that and get at least some info with

if (file.includes('ppt//')) { file = file.replace(/ppt\/\//g, '')}
if (file.includes('ppt/media//')) { file = file.replace(/ppt\/media\/\//g, '')}

in helper/archive/archive-fs.js read() function, but it failed in relations later.

Any ideas/suggestions what could be wrong?

OS: Linux Ubuntu
Node: 20.12.2

[singerla]

Could you provide some code for me to reproduce this issue? Or will this occur on all PptxGenJS buffers? I've never tried this 😄

[igor-sobolev]

const automizer = new Automizer({
  // this is where your template pptx files are coming from:
  templateDir,

  // specify the directory to write your final pptx output files:
  outputDir,

  // turn this to true if you want to generally use
  // Powerpoint's creationIds instead of slide numbers
  // or shape names:
  useCreationIds: false,

  // Always use the original slideMaster and slideLayout of any
  // imported slide:
  autoImportSlideMasters: true,

  // truncate root presentation and start with zero slides
  removeExistingSlides: true,

  // activate `cleanup` to eventually remove unused files:
  cleanup: false,

  // Set a value from 0-9 to specify the zip-compression level.
  // The lower the number, the faster your output file will be ready.
  // Higher compression levels produce smaller files.
  compression: 0,

  // You can enable 'archiveType' and set mode: 'fs'.
  // This will extract all templates and output to disk.
  // It will not improve performance, but it can help debugging:
  // You don't have to manually extract pptx contents, which can
  // be annoying if you need to look inside your files.
  archiveType: {
    mode: 'fs',
    baseDir: `${__dirname}/csvs/tmp`,
    cleanupWorkDir: true,
  },

  // use a callback function to track pptx generation process.
  statusTracker: (status) => {
    console.log(status.info + ' (' + status.share + '%)');
  },
});

const presentationFileName = process.argv[2] || 'Presentation.pptx';
const suggestionsFileName = `${templateDir}/sugesstions.json`;

const categories = [
  'Category 1',
];

const updatePresentation = async (data) => {
  console.log(`Loading file: ${presentationFileName}`);

  // 'binary',
  // const rootTemplate = fs.readFileSync(
  //   path.resolve(`${templateDir}/${presentationFileName}`)
  // );

  let pres = automizer
    .loadRoot(presentationFileName)
    .load(presentationFileName, 'root');

  const presInfo = await pres.getInfo();
  const rootSlides = presInfo.slidesByTemplate('root');
  console.log('@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@', rootSlides) // [ ]

  rootSlides.forEach((_, index) => {
    // add each slide from root template
    pres.addSlide('root', index + 1); // tried to add by index, but no luck here as well
  });

  console.log('Getting suggestions slides...');

  const suggestionPresentations = await Promise.all(categories.map((category) => {
    const suggestionsData = data
      .filter((s) => {
        return s.category === category && !!s.suggestions
      });

    return generateCategorySuggestions(category, suggestionsData);
  }));

  // preload bufferized category slides as templates
  // suggestionPresentations.forEach(({ category, buffer }) => {
  //   pres.load(buffer, category);
  // });

  // suggestionPresentations.forEach(async ({ category }) => {
  //   const slideNumbers = await pres.getTemplate(category).getAllSlideNumbers();
  //   for (let slideNumber of slideNumbers) {
  //     // add each slide from category template
  //     pres.addSlide(category, slideNumber);
  //   }
  // });

  // const finalJSZip = await pres.getJSZip();
  // const buffer = await finalJSZip.generateAsync({ type: 'nodebuffer' });
  // fs.writeFileSync(`${outputDir}/${presentationFileName}`, buffer);

  // @TODO: original save
  await pres.write(presentationFileName).then((summary) => {
    console.log(summary);
  });
  console.log(`Saved file: ${presentationFileName} to ${outputDir}`);
  console.log(`Done.`);
  console.log(`==================================================`);
}

[igor-sobolev]

@singerla hi, was the code sample helpful?

[singerla]

Hi @igor-sobolev, I was playing around with loading pptxGenJs generated files, but could not reproduce the error message. It's clear to me that /ppt//ppt/ is wrong, but I can't imagine where this is coming from.

My current approach:

• Create a presentation with 10+ slides in pptxGenJs
• Load this presentation as root and as template
• Load info about the pptxGenJs-generated pptx
• Add all slides
• Add some more fancy stuff

But (un?)fortunately everything works as expected.

import Automizer from './index';
import pptxgen from 'pptxgenjs';

const run = async () => {
  const outputDir = `${__dirname}/../__tests__/pptx-output`;
  const templateDir = `${__dirname}/../__tests__/pptx-templates`;

  let presPptxGen = new pptxgen();

  let slide = presPptxGen.addSlide();
  let textboxText = 'Hello World from PptxGenJS!';
  let textboxOpts: pptxgen.TextPropsOptions = {
    x: 1,
    y: 1,
    color: '363636',
    objectName: 'Text 1',
  };
  slide.addText(textboxText, textboxOpts);

  for (let i = 2; i <= 10; i++) {
    presPptxGen.addSlide().addImage({
      path: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Example.jpg',
      objectName: 'Image ' + i,
      x: 1,
      y: 2,
    });
  }

  await presPptxGen.writeFile({
    fileName: templateDir + '/presPptxGenTmp.pptx',
  });

  const automizer = new Automizer({
    templateDir,
    outputDir,
    removeExistingSlides: true,
    archiveType: {
      mode: 'fs',
      baseDir: `${__dirname}/tmp`,
      cleanupWorkDir: true,
    },
  });

  let pres = automizer
    .loadRoot(`presPptxGenTmp.pptx`)
    .load(`presPptxGenTmp.pptx`, 'root')
    .load(`SlideWithShapes.pptx`, 'shapes')
    .load(`EmptySlide.pptx`, 'emptySlide');

  const presInfo = await pres.getInfo();
  const rootSlides = presInfo.slidesByTemplate('root');
  console.log('@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@', rootSlides); // [ ]

  rootSlides.forEach((_, index) => {
    // add each slide from root template
    pres.addSlide('root', _.number); // tried to add by index, but no luck here as well
  });

  pres.addSlide('shapes', 1, (slide) => {
    slide.addElement('root', 1, 'Text 1');
    slide.addElement('root', 1, 'Image 1');

    pres.write(`myOutputPresentation.pptx`).then((summary) => {
      console.log(summary);
    });
  });
};

run().catch((error) => {
  console.error(error);
});

Where is this double ppt/ coming from in your case?

Have a great week anyway! 😄

[igor-sobolev]

Hey, thanks for a reply, double ppt/ coming from at the point it's extracted either by JSZip or by fs mode, but there's no such folder in presentation archive

[singerla]

It's hard to reproduce without the underlying pptx files generated by pptxGenJs. Every combination that I am testing with v0.6 works without double ppt/. Is it possible to provide some mock templates? Do they contain something special?

I was trying this code to produce my own files:

import Automizer, { CmToDxa, modify } from './index';
import pptxgen from 'pptxgenjs';

const run = async () => {
  const outputDir = `${__dirname}/../__tests__/pptx-output`;
  const templateDir = `${__dirname}/../__tests__/pptx-templates`;

  let presPptxGen = new pptxgen();
  for (let i = 2; i <= 10; i++) {
    presPptxGen.addSlide().addImage({
      path: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Example.jpg',
      objectName: 'Image ' + i,
      x: 1,
      y: 2,
    });
  }

  await presPptxGen.writeFile({
    fileName: templateDir + '/presPptxGenTmp.pptx',
  });
  await presPptxGen.writeFile({
    fileName: templateDir + '/presPptxGenTmp2.pptx',
  });

  const automizer = new Automizer({
    templateDir,
    outputDir,
    removeExistingSlides: true,
    autoImportSlideMasters: true,
    // archiveType: {
    //   mode: 'fs',
    //   baseDir: `${__dirname}/tmp`,
    //   cleanupWorkDir: false,
    // },
  });

  let pres = automizer
    .loadRoot(`presPptxGenTmp.pptx`)
    .load(`presPptxGenTmp.pptx`, 'root');

  const presInfo = await pres.getInfo();
  const rootSlides = presInfo.slidesByTemplate('root');
  console.log('@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@', rootSlides); // [ ]

  rootSlides.forEach((_, index) => {
    // add each slide from root template
    pres.addSlide('root', _.number); // tried to add by index, but no luck here as well
  });

  const suggestionPresentations = [{ category: `presPptxGenTmp2.pptx` }];

  for (const { category } of suggestionPresentations) {
    pres.load(category);
    const slideNumbers = await pres.getTemplate(category).getAllSlideNumbers();

    for (let slideNumber of slideNumbers) {
      // add each slide from category template
      pres.addSlide(category, slideNumber);
    }
  }

  pres.load(`presPptxGenTmp2.pptx`, 'presPptxGenTmp2');

  pres.addSlide('presPptxGenTmp2', 3, (slide) => {
    slide.modifyElement('Image 4', modify.updatePosition({ x: CmToDxa(5) }));
  });

  pres.write(`myOutputPresentation.pptx`).then((summary) => {
    console.log(summary);
  });
};

run().catch((error) => {
  console.error(error);
});

[igor-sobolev]

Seems the previous issue was coming from @xmldom/xmldom on pptx-automizer@0.5.2, so it seems that something's changed from the time and version now is changed, but I get a different error now 🥴

ParseError: processing instruction at position 1 is an xml declaration which is only at the start of the document
    at DOMHandler.fatalError (/home/i.sobaleu@godeltech.com/workspace/health-check-survey/node_modules/@xmldom/xmldom/lib/dom-parser.js:483:9)

Will try to investigate whether there's something with my presentations

[singerla]

This error seems to point to a problem with the prepended XML-Tag <?xml version="1.0" .... In pptx-automizer library we only have two XML files as a fallback to assert datalabels or borders (see src/helper/xml). It is very likely this is caused by one of your templates.

[singerla]

@igor-sobolev could you find a solution?