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🐛 Problem Solved

Fixed critical chart rendering issues that prevented charts from displaying properly in generated PowerPoint files.

🔧 Root Cause

  • XML structure issues in chart generation
  • Missing chart data relationships
  • Incorrect chart part references in slide XML

✨ Changes Made

  • src/generator/theme_xml.rs: Fixed chart XML template structure and relationships
  • Chart generation logic: Corrected chart data embedding and referencing
  • XML namespace handling: Ensured proper chart XML formatting

🧪 Testing

  • Bar charts now display correctly
  • Line charts render properly
  • Pie charts show data as expected
  • All chart types (scatter, area, etc.) working
  • Generated PPTX files open successfully in PowerPoint

🎉 Impact

Users can now successfully create PowerPoint presentations with functional charts that display actual data visualization instead of empty placeholders.

📋 Before vs After

Before: Charts would not render at all
After: Charts display with proper data, legends, and formatting


This fix enables the library's core chart functionality, making it suitable for data visualization use cases.

Implement chart functionality, including:
1. Expose the chart module as public
2. Add chart support to all slide layouts
3. Implement chart data generation and relationship handling
4. Extend the PPTX generator to support chart files
5. Add utility functions for generating chart XML
- Add the `rust_xlsxwriter` dependency to support generating Excel data files
- Extend the `ChartSeries` struct to support XY and bubble chart data
- Implement the `ExcelWriter` trait and Excel generators for multiple chart types
- Modify chart XML generation logic to reference external Excel data
- Update relationship files and content types to support Excel files
- Refactor chart data generation logic to support multiple chart types
- Add the `rust_xlsxwriter` dependency to support generating Excel data files
- Extend the `ChartSeries` struct to support XY and bubble chart data
- Implement the `ExcelWriter` trait and Excel generators for multiple chart types
- Modify chart XML generation logic to reference external Excel data
- Update relationship files and content types to support Excel files
- Refactor chart data generation logic to support multiple chart types
…el data storage location

Refactored chart generation logic by moving Excel data files into the `embeddings` directory and introducing a new `relationships` module to generate chart relationship XML files. Additionally, numbered generation functions have been added for all chart types to improve code consistency.

- Added a `relationships` module to manage relationships between charts and Excel data
- Changed the Excel data file storage path to `ppt/embeddings/`
- Added numbered generation functions for all chart types
- Updated related tests and documentation references
…el data storage location

Refactored chart generation logic by moving Excel data files into the `embeddings` directory and introducing a new `relationships` module to generate chart relationship XML files. Additionally, numbered generation functions have been added for all chart types to improve code consistency.

- Added a `relationships` module to manage relationships between charts and Excel data
- Changed the Excel data file storage path to `ppt/embeddings/`
- Added numbered generation functions for all chart types
- Updated related tests and documentation references
Implemented XML generation for chart styles and colors, including the creation of `chartStyle.xml` and `colors.xml` files, and updated chart relationship files to support style references.
…scheme

Added category references to chart XML generation and refactored the file naming logic to use a global counter.
- Implemented generation of 11 WPS-compatible slide layout types
- Refactored chart generation logic to support global chart numbering and precise data range references
- Added control over Excel data reference ranges to improve chart data accuracy
- Enhanced chart XML generation for better compatibility with WPS
…l XML attributes

- Added system language detection capability, supporting retrieval of the system language via environment variables or the Windows API
- Added `lang` and `altLang` attributes to XML elements to enable multilingual text handling
- Updated default positions and dimensions for charts and tables to better align with WPS reference standards
- Removed redundant external data relationship references to optimize chart XML structure
Ensure unique axis IDs across different charts to prevent rendering issues in PPTX files.
…on WPS reference coordinates

- Refactored chart XML generation logic: moved axis ID references into internal chart definitions and relocated axis definitions externally
- Standardized chart positions and dimensions in examples to align with WPS reference specifications
…charts

Refactored scatter chart XML generation logic to ensure correct axis ID references and cross-references. Added dedicated functions to generate scatter chart axis definitions, maintaining consistent references between X and Y axes.
Replaced Chinese placeholder text and titles in the theme XML generator with English equivalents to support internationalization requirements.
Clean up println statements used for debugging in the code, which were previously used during development to track variable values and program flow, and are no longer needed.
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