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layout: post
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title: "Perl in the office"
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date: 2014-01-17 00:36
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comments: true
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categories: Perl, Office, Dirty Hacks
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Today Perl helped me again to solve a boring office problem. The colleagues gave me a presentation with almost 1000 slides. It was designed for a theatre subtitles. The slides was simple. Just a sentence per each slide. Only the colors was mistaken. Not black on white but white on black. My colleagues spent hours in googling for M$ Office bulk color change function. Then something blinked in me. **It was Perl's Regex {}**.
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The new open Office formats - [ODF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument) and [OOXML](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML) are both zipped XML files, binary media content and files with metadata. I converted the presentation to odt (It was on the old crappy ppt) and then, just
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{% codeblock lang:bash %}
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lin:/tmp/presentation$ unzip slides.odp
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Archive: slides.odp
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extracting: mimetype
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inflating: content.xml
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inflating: META-INF/manifest.xml
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inflating: settings.xml
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inflating: styles.xml
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inflating: meta.xml
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inflating: Thumbnails/thumbnail.png
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{% endcodeblock %}
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The interesting file for me was **content.xml**. It's a verry big XML text file, so it's hard to be read both by a human and a text editor, but Sublime Text withstand. Because the slides were very simple, there was only one text style. So, here is the interesting stanza:
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{% codeblock lang:xml %}
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</style:paragraph-properties>
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<style:text-properties fo:font-variant="normal" fo:text-transform="none" fo:color="#ffffff"
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style:text-line-through-type="none" style:text-line-through-style="none" style:text-line-through-width="auto"
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style:text-line-through-color="font-color" style:text-position="0% 100%" fo:font-size="0.25in" style:font-size-asian="0
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.25in" style:font-size-complex="0.25in" fo:letter-spacing="0in" fo:font-style="normal" style:font-style-asian="normal"
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style:font-style-complex="normal" style:text-underline-type="none"
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style:text-underline-style="none" style:text-underline-width="auto" style:text-underline-color="font-color"
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fo:font-weight="normal" style:font-weight-asian="normal" style:font-weight-complex="normal"
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style:text-underline-mode="continuous" style:letter-kerning="false"/></style:style>
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{% endcodeblock %}
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I just changed **' fo:color="#ffffff" '** to **' fo:color="#000000" '** with a Perl oneliner:
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{% codeblock lang:perl %}
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lin:/tmp/presentation$ perl -p -i -e 's/fo:color=\"#ffffff\"/fo:color=\"#000000\"/g' content.xml
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{% endcodeblock %}
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And then, zip again..
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{% codeblock lang:bash %}
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lin:/tmp/presentation$ zip foo.odp content.xml meta.xml mimetype settings.xml styles.xml
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adding: content.xml (deflated 97%)
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adding: meta.xml (deflated 47%)
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adding: mimetype (deflated 6%)
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adding: settings.xml (deflated 37%)
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adding: styles.xml (deflated 97%)
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lin:/tmp/presentation$ zip -r foo.odp META-INF
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adding: META-INF/ (stored 0%)
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adding: META-INF/manifest.xml (deflated 71%)
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lin:/tmp/presentation$ zip -r foo.odp Thumbnails
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adding: Thumbnails/ (stored 0%)
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adding: Thumbnails/thumbnail.png (deflated 4%)
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{% endcodeblock %}
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And.. voilà! (The image is just an example. I cannot show the real one.)
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PS: I changed the background from Powerpoint. It was easy in the GUI way :D
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