I'm exporting PowerPoint presentations using PowerShell. This works fine with the Office XPS/PDF exporter plugin. However, only the complete slide, without animations, are exported.
When exporting a presentation as a web page, the presentation can be run step-by-step (e.g. revealing bullet points one by one) if you check the "Show slide animation while browsing" option (under "Web options").
Is there any way to generate a PDF with one page per animation step in the presentation, through scripting? (If not - any tips on how to do it in general?)
When exporting to PDF it will export simple text and images so animation are not there :(
For method to generate a page per animation, you will have to explore Powerpoint object model and use some PDF generation library like iTextSharp to out put all transitions one by one.
The Powerpoint Object model is here
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I don't see any methods in the PowerPoint Object Model to add one of PowerPoint's built in icons. I see the ability to add the built in shapes and pictures, but not icons?
How would you do it? Would it be best to just have a slide with the icons I want to use saved somewhere and just copy it off the slide?
It seems that upon looking into the problem further PowerPoint does not have the ability to insert its built in icons using VBA. Additionally, when creating a PPAM file from a PPTM you lose all slides, masters, layouts, etc.
The best way to insert slides or objects on slides is to just create another PPTX file and store it on SharePoint, a share drive, or just distribute a file with your add-in so that you can reference the slides and objects on the slides in your add-in.
The Slides.InsertFromFile method requires a filename and index. The filename is a string and while the example shows a local resource I have tested and it also works with an internet URI (specifically tried a SharePoint resource, but I could do further testing if needed).
Looking to export Vega (or Vega-Lite) into PowerPoint as an interactive visualization. Are there any known libraries/techniques to do this easily? If not with Vega, are there other interactive visualization libraries you would recommend with this capability?
Interactive Vega/Vega-Lite charts are rendered via HTML and Javascript, so your question is equivalent to asking whether arbitrary HTML/JS documents can be displayed in Powerpoint. The answer appears to be yes, if you're using Powerpoint Online with the WebViewer addon; see Editable HTML, CSS and Javascript within Powerpoint Presentation?
You can create an HTML view of your chart using Vega-Embed, and then use this in the online powerpoint.
When I open a certain pdf file on SharePoint, I wish to see the Bookmarks Navigation tab open by default. I can do this manually by File > Properties > initial View and changing the Navigation tab to "Bookmarks Panel and Page".
I need to do this with hundreds of pdf files and then upload them to SharePoint.
I am using VBA. I don't mind using other forms of automation.
Currently, I have AVDoc (CAcroAVDoc) and can open the Bookmarks Pane but it's not changed in the settings.
AVDoc.SetViewMode 3
I tried PDDoc.SetInfo etc but nothings changing the "settings".
Any suggestion will be appreciated.
I am running a lot of code in Excel VBA, that does a lot of pdf manipulation. The only thing that remains is to change the settings.
With Acrobat as the runtime, there is no scriptable interface to the initial view settings. However, you can easily use any of several .NET PDF libraries to make this change. A Google search for ".NET PDF Library" will yield both free and commercial varieties. You'll need to research which one is best for your task and skill set.
I have to export some images into powerpoint (.ppt or .pptx format) using asp.net core 2.0. Any ideas welcome!
Maybe you could use SlideMight, a data merge tool for PowerPoint.
You should be able to get 1 slide per image, or 1 table row per image, or 1 table cell, or so. You can also make a thumbnail slide that links to 15 detail slides. You define this in a "pattern file", which is much like a PowerPoint template.
Your asp.net program should write the images to the file system, or have URLs available. It should also create an input data file (XML, JSON or YAML) that refers to these images. Then it should invoke SlideMight to generate the desired presentation. Normally SlideMight runs in a GUI. It should also be able to run as a command line program, although this has not been tested lately (please let me know if you need it).
Would this be of use?
Disclaimer: I am the developer and vendor of SlideMight.
All:
I am writing a PowerPoint add-in that will allow a user to drop specific safety related images onto a map. I've written the code that copies the images and places them on the slide and I would like to place it into an add-in. Unfortunately, I cannot find a way to either:
a) place the images into the add-in
b) reference images if I were able to place them in the add-in
The alternative approach is to require the user to start with a special template that includes all of the images and then load the add-in to get the menu functionality. I would much rather have a single file that contains both the code and bitmap images.
With best regards,
Walt
PPA files contain only code, not presentation content like images. As an alternative, you could distribute a PPT/PPTX that you open invisibly and extract the image you need.
After quite a bit of looking around I found a solution that resolves the problem adequately. Using Microsoft's Custom UI Editor, I created an XML entry in the PowerPoint Presentation that performs the Auto_Open function that would have been part of the Add-In. This allows me to add the menu functions that will be responsible for loading the specific images.
I've added a reference page at the beginning of the presentation that contains instructions on how to use the template... This page also contains all of the images that are used by the visual basic code. The 'Visible' flag on these images are set to False so the user does not see them. As they are copied from the reference page into the presentation, the Visible flag is set to True and they are pasted onto the current slide.
It is not a perfect solution, but it is adequate...