Metadata

Various pieces of slide and show metadata can be added to slides via either magic text annotations or naming relevant text boxes within a slide.

Slide metadata

A title, author and date may be defined for a slide by giving a text element an XML ID of title, author or date. This mechanism ensures that slide metadata is consistent with the actual text on slides.

Tip

You can change the XML ID of an element in Inkscape by right clicking on it, choosing ‘Object Properties’ and entering a name in the ‘ID’ box and clicking the ‘Set’ button (the last step being easily forgotten!).

Alternatively, you can create a magic text box defining one of title, author or date to define the relevant metadata without any text appearing on the slide. For example:

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title = "My slide's title"

This can be useful when the title as written on the slide does not match what you’d prefer to appear in the slide show table of contents.

Metadata assigned to the first slide is treated as the document-level metadata. For example, PDF document-level metadata and the title of the XHTML viewer.

At the moment, slide metadata beyond the first slide is largely unused. An exception is that PDF tables of contents are populated using slide ‘title’ data.

Slide IDs

Each slide may also be assigned a slide ID for use in intra-show hyperlinks. To assign a slide ID to a slide, add a magic text box anywhere on the slide which sets the id value like so:

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id = "my-id-here"

See also

Creating hyperlinks between slides

TL;DR: To create a hyperlink to a slide with the ID ‘foo’, use the URI #foo.