ppt/pptx converter to html or other format

Question

I'm just wondering if anybody knows an open source project devoted to convert ppt (or pptx) file to an easy-to-render format - html, jpg or other picture type, pdf...

I've developed some code to start reading an office file (I'm talking about the Compound Binary File) and now I've started to crack on the internal ppt streams like Picture and PowerPoint document. But each stream, as many of you know, it's huge, and write code to render it is a massive job. So, if anybody knows an Open Source project that reads and export it to an easier file to render, (must be in C++ or C - could be in C#, java since it doesn't use any API/lib facility)

Please, don't ask me why I'm doing this :-).

I really appreciate.

Answer 1

Powerpoint has an option to save as web-page or publish as web-page. It can be found under the file menu. You could also look into using the following which supposedly gives more control of layout: pp2html

Answer 2

The applications in the KOffice 2.x suite are easily scripted to output PDF, and ImageMagick can be utilized to split a PDF into pages if desired.

$ kpresenter --export-pdf --export-filename output.pdf input.ppt
Loading file /home/ephemient/input.ppt
  UserEditAtom
  LastSlideID 256
  MajorVersion 768
  MinorVersion 3516
  Offset Last Edit 0
  Offset Persist Dir 151466
  Document Ref 1

/home/ephemient/input.ppt loaded. Done.
$ convert output.pdf page.png
$ ls -1v
input.ppt
output.pdf
page-1.png
page-2.png
page-3.png
...

Answer 3

Hi Andres

Have you tried NPOI?

Best