Removes Ink Annotations from PowerPoint presentations

Removes the Ink Annotations from the file specified.

If no files are specified it acts on all the the PowerPoint presentations found in the current directory.

If the file is marked Final it removes the attribute.

From the PowerShell command line:

.\NoInk.ps1

• It removes the Ink Annotations from all the .pptx files found in the current directory

.\NoInk.ps1 myPresentation.pptx

• It removes the Ink Annotations from the specified file

.\NoInk.ps1 C:\Users\mzuppone\Desktop

• Removes the ink annotations from all the slide decks (.pptx files) found in C:\Users\mzuppone\Desktop

.\NoInk.ps1 C:\Users\mzuppone\Desktop -DryRun

• All the slide decks (.pptx files) found in C:\Users\mzuppone\Desktop are processed but no shapes are deleted from them

.\NoInk.ps1 myPresentation.pptx -ShowAll

• Removes the ink annotations from the file myPresentation.pptx and shows all the shapes type found in every slide

-ShowAll If specified all the objests found in every slides are enumerated but only the objects of type msoInk and msoInkComment are removed

-DryRun If the parameter is specified the objects of type msoInk and msoInkComment are not deleted

The script has been tested on Windows 7 x64 SP1 and on Windows 10 with Office Plus 2013 and Office 2019

It was tested with Windows PowerShell 5.1

The script is given AS IS and it is under the AGPL Aferro license 3.0.