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How do I create a set of image files from a PowerPoint file file?

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BlairHippo 2010-03-08 17:08:24

+1 for ImageMagick. I'd use PythonMagick (http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonMagick) (Python bindings on top of the imagemagick API) instead of CLI.

ChristopheD 2010-03-08 20:05:47

Answer 2

+1 A:

Are you doing this on Windows? If so win32 com:

import win32com.client
Application = win32com.client.Dispatch("PowerPoint.Application")
Application.Visible = True
Presentation = Application.Presentations.Open(pathToPPT)
Presentation.Slides[1].Export("C:/path/to/jpg.jpg", "JPG", 800, 600);
etc...

Mark 2010-03-08 18:29:18

Not downvoting, but doesn't this require you to install PowerPoint onto your webserver? Seems like a heavy dependency to me (and effectively locking you into Windows as a platform; although you already sort of mentioned that).

ChristopheD 2010-03-08 20:14:07

@ChirstopheD, yes it would require PowerPoint. Really anything you do though is going to require an application that understands powerpoint PPT files. BlairHippo's solution above mine requires OpenOffice, equally heavy.

Mark 2010-03-08 20:28:32

Answer 3

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Apache POI and Jython. POI, even has an ImageExtractor class, but having just glanced at the Javadocs, I suspect it is incomplete.

mikerobi 2010-03-08 20:26:30

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