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FFMPEG: PowerPoint Web Presentation to HQ Video

I am building a recording script for PowerPoint presentations on the web( during a web meeting). I am looking to build a demuxer which will be easier to work with for the rest of the ffmpeg code as we query the timeline and return the current slide image and let ffmpeg handle the encoding of the frame in the output video. I want output...

How to display a .ppt in a web browser?

Hi! I've tried to put a ppt file into my website (.aspx). I used a Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint namespace and it works fine but I want to display my presentation just in a web browser (especially IE, in a frame or something like this), not in a separate window. Is there any possibility to do so? ...

Branching Slides in PowerPoint (VBA)

I am trying to create a back button but using hyperlinks it simply just takes me to the previous page and ends up in a loop... e.g. if I have slide 1 which has links to slide 3, 4 & 5 then slide 3 links to 6 & 7. If I'm currently on slide 7 and click back it successfully takes me back to slide 3 but then I want to click back and end up a...

Prevent PowerPoint from pausing when focus is lost

I've written an app that allows me to start multiple PowerPoint presentations, each on its own monitor (this particular config has 4 monitors). The problem I have now is that only the presentation that has focus has any animation. The other 3 pause until they receive focus via mouse click. Is there any way to keep this pause behavior ...

How to set left margin in PowerPoint textbox using VSTO

I'm taking some user data and adding it to a PowerPoint presentation using VSTO. To get the formatting to look right, though I need to be able to set the left margin of some of the text in the textbox. There will be an initial block of text followed by another, indented block. For example (underlines added to emphasize spacing): Lo...

C# - way to programmatically advance Powerpoint slide show?

Hi, I'd like to be able to advance through a Powerpoint presentation by pressing buttons in a Windows form. Here's some code I've found from http://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/272940-open-powerpoint-presentation-c-window-form that opens a Powerpoint presentation slide show: Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.Application oPPT; Micr...

How to find auto-updating date-time fields that have been inserted into a Powerpoint?

I need to find and "fix" these fields (that were inserted with TextRange.InsertDateTime with the InsertAsField flag set to true). Word documents appear to have a nice Fields property that gives me centralized access to them, and I can find the representation in the .pptx file with 2007, but I can't seem to find anything in the PPT objec...

How to simulate ThisPresentation in PowerPoint VBA

I would like to be able to access the document properties of a PowerPoint add-in file (a presentation saved as "PowerPoint Add-in (*.ppa)", from some VBA code in the add-in itself. If it helps to understand the problem, what I'm actually trying to do is read a custom document property that stores the version number of the add-in, so tha...

Any java library for ppt to jpg conversion?

Hi, Do you know any java library for ppt to jpg conversion? I've tried openoffice3 and POI (http://poi.apache.org/slideshow/quick-guide.html). OpenOffice takes quite long to load (full startup), even though I want to convert the slides only. POI-HSLF only generates images for simple slides (created by myself). all the test slides get...

Making a macro to generate a custom show in Powerpoint

I want to make a macro for PowerPoint, to generate a custom show, containing all the slides from my PowerPoint but in random order. How would I do this? I want to be able to run it and create different custom shows each time. It's been 3 years since I used PowerPoint, and the only experience I have with VB was a little bit of VB6 in 200...

C#.NET - Determine if PPT is in Slideshow

I am trying to create a PowerPoint add-in using C# and a 3rd-party SDK/API to enable wireless voting/message retrieval during a PowerPoint presentation. Is there any way that I can determine whether or not the user has hit 'F5' or selected 'Start Slideshow', because I obviously do not want the program executing while the user is editing...

Open Password Procted Power point file using Object model in c#

How to open password procted Power Point file using Microsoft object model. I could open simple password procted file using object model. But I don't find any property or object to set password for powerpoint object. If any one have any idea please help me. Regards vishal ...

MS Access 2003 - Question about extracting information from ppt slides

Just wondering: If I have a ppt slides that I want to extract information out of, and I set up the template for all these slides that are used by various people through out the organization, and I know all the "names" to each text box object, can I use some vb to pull that information out of the ppt slides into an access database? I k...

Update an embedded chart in a power point presentation using C#

All, I have a power point file that has an embedded chart, I want to use C# to: Load the power point file Update the chart with data from the database Create a new instance of the file and stream it to the client from a web page Any advice ...

How to detect Theme fonts in Powerpoint 2007 VBA?

Does anyone know how to detect the use of Theme fonts in Powerpoint 2007 slide objects using VBA? If one looks at Shape.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Name the font name appears as simple name (ex: "Arial") whether or not the font was assigned as a fixed name or a Theme name (subject to change with the document theme). I don't see any other...

C# / Windows Forms - Display a PowerPoint slide-show without Office installed?

Hi guys, I know I can display a Powerpoint presentation within my own form (see here), but I'm wondering whether there is a way to get rid of Microsoft Office as a requirement? I guess basically what I'm asking for is a library which will display Powerpoint slide-shows without my users having to install MS Office on every machine. They...

.Net Powerpoint Component

I am looking for a .Net component to allow reading and generation of powerpoint files. So far the only thing that I have been able to find is the component by Aspose. Can anyone recommend other possible tools to use for this? ...

How to Display Powerpoint Viewer Slides on WPF

Hi Guys, I am working on an application that requires users being able to select a powerpoint file and then have it displayed on a WPF form using Powerpoint Viewer 2007. The reason for using Powerpoint Viewer 2007 is that not all the users of the application will have Powerpoint installed on their system. Any help or link will be highl...

Save MS Office files stored in SQL Server directly to server directory with ASP.Net

I am storing MS Office files such as PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) and Word (.doc, .docx) in SQL Server, and need to save these files to a temp file directory on the server through an ASP.Net application. I get the files up from the database and into the application as a Byte Array. But what I don’t know is how to then save the Byte Array as ...

What does COM exception 80010108 mean?

I am trying to create a PowerPoint presentation from inside a C# .NET application. For the most part it is working, but every once in a while I am seeing this error in my logs: Creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID {91493441-5A91-11CF-8700-00AA0060263B} from the IClassFactory failed due to the following error: 80010108. ...