Handling Microsoft PowerPoint file format: Difference between revisions

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This page discusses various available options for working with Microsoft PowerPoint documents in your Qt application. Please also read the general considerations outlined on the Handling Document Formats page.

Note that this information is collaboratively collected by the

community, with no promise of completeness or correctness. In particular, use your own research and judgment when evaluating third-party libraries or tools!

NOTE: This page is a stub. Please help expanding it.

One needs to distinguish between two different formats (this page deals with both of them):

	Legacy "PowerPoint Presentation" format	"Office Open XML Presentation" format
classification:	binary	XML-based
main filename extension:	.ppt	.pptx
main internet media type:	application/vnd.ms-powerpoint	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
native format of PowerPoint:	until PowerPoint 2003	since PowerPoint 2007

Reading / Writing

Using PowerPoint itself

If you are exclusively targeting the Windows platform and Microsoft PowerPoint will be installed on all target machines, then you can use Qt’s ActiveX framework to access PowerPoint’s .ppt and .pptx processing functionality through OLE automation. For an introductory code example (and a way to list the API provided by the PowerPoint COM object), consult this how to (focuses on Microsoft Excel, but it works the same way for PowerPoint).

	DLL file name	COM object name	platforms	license
Microsoft PowerPoint	?	PowerPoint.Application	Windows	commercial

Using independent parser/writer libraries

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	API	.ppt	.pptx	reading	writing	platforms	license
…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…

Using manual XML processing

Files using the XML-based (.pptx) format could be processed using Qt's XML handling classes (see Handling Document Formats).

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Using batch conversion tools

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Rendering

Using PowerPoint itself

TODO: If you know whether PowerPoint's COM object (see above) supports rendering individual pages from a .ppt/.pptx presentation to images

(e.g. for thumbnails), please edit this section.

…

Interactive Viewing

Using PowerPoint itself

TODO: If you know whether PowerPoint provides a "viewer" ActiveX control that can be embedded in a Qt application through ActiveQT, please

fill out this section (include links to relevant resources!)

…

Manual solution

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-This page discusses various available options for working with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint#File_formats Microsoft PowerPoint] ''[en.wikipedia.org]'' documents in your Qt application. Please also read the general considerations outlined on the [[Handling Document Formats]] page.
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-''<font size="0.9em"><font color="#335">Note that this information is collaboratively collected by the community, with no promise of completeness or correctness. In particular, use your own research and judgment when evaluating third-party libraries or tools!</font></font>''
-''<font size="0.9em"><font color="#530"><span class="caps">NOTE</span>: This page is a stub. Please help expanding it.</font></font>''
+This page discusses various available options for working with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint#File_formats Microsoft PowerPoint] documents in your Qt application. Please also read the general considerations outlined on the [[Handling_Document_Formats | Handling Document Formats]] page.
+{| style="background-color:LightCyan;" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="1"
+| Note that this information is collaboratively collected by the
+community, with no promise of completeness or correctness. In particular, use your own research and judgment
+when evaluating third-party libraries or tools!
+|}
+{| style="background-color:moccasin;" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="1"
+| NOTE: This page is a stub. Please help expanding it.
+|}
 One needs to distinguish between two different formats (this page deals with both of them):
-{| class="infotable line" style="width: 95%; margin-left: 2.5%"
+{| class="wikitable"
 |
-! Legacy “PowerPoint Presentation” format
+! Legacy "PowerPoint Presentation" format
-! “Office Open <span class="caps">XML</span> Presentation” format
+! "Office Open XML Presentation" format
 |-
 | ''classification:''
 | binary
-| <span class="caps">XML</span>-based
+| XML-based
 |-
 | ''main filename extension:''
-| <span style="font: 1em monospace">.ppt</span>
+| .ppt
-| <font face="monospace">.pptx</font>
+| .pptx
 |-
 | ''main internet media type:''
-| <span style="font: 0.9em monospace">application/vnd.ms-powerpoint</span>
+| application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
-| <span style="font: 0.9em monospace">application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation</span>
+| application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
 |-
 | ''native format of PowerPoint:''
 | until PowerPoint 2003
 | since PowerPoint 2007
 |}
-==Reading / Writing==
+== Reading / Writing ==
+=== Using PowerPoint itself ===
-===Using PowerPoint itself===
+If you are exclusively targeting the Windows platform and Microsoft PowerPoint will be installed on all target machines, then you can use [http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/activeqt.html Qt’s ActiveX framework] to access PowerPoint’s .ppt and .pptx processing functionality through OLE automation. For an introductory code example (and a way to list the API provided by the PowerPoint COM object), consult [http://wiki.qt.io/Using_ActiveX_Object_in_QT this how to] (focuses on Microsoft Excel, but it works the same way for PowerPoint).
-If you are exclusively targeting the Windows platform and Microsoft PowerPoint will be installed on all target machines, then you can use [http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/activeqt.html Qt’s ActiveX framework] ''[qt.io]'' to access PowerPoint’s .ppt and .pptx processing functionality through <span class="caps">OLE</span> automation. For an introductory code example (and a way to list the <span class="caps">API</span> provided by the PowerPoint <span class="caps">COM</span> object), consult [[Using ActiveX Object in QT|this how to]] ''[qt.io]'' (focuses on Microsoft Excel, but it works the same way for PowerPoint).
-{| class="infotable line" style="width: 95%; margin-left: 2.5%"
+{| class="wikitable"
 |
-! <span class="caps">DLL</span> file name
+! DLL file name
-! <span class="caps">COM</span> object name
+! COM object name
 ! platforms
 ! license
 |-
-|
+| [http://office.microsoft.com/powerpoint/ '''Microsoft PowerPoint''']
-[http://office.microsoft.com/powerpoint/ '''Microsoft PowerPoint'''] ''[office.microsoft.com]''
+| ?
-| ?
+| PowerPoint.Application
-| <font face="monospace">PowerPoint.Application</font>
+| Windows
-| Windows
+| commercial
-| <font color="#458">commercial</font>
 |}
-===Using independent parser/writer libraries===
+=== Using independent parser/writer libraries ===
 …
-{| class="infotable line" style="width: 95%; margin-left: 2.5%"
+{| class="wikitable"
 |
-! <span class="caps">API</span>
+! API
-! <font face="monospace">.ppt</font>
+! .ppt
-! <font face="monospace">.pptx</font>
+! .pptx
 ! reading
 ! writing
 ! platforms
 ! license
 |-
-|
+| …
-[http:// '''…''']…
+| …
 | …
 | …
 | …
 | …
 | …
 | …
-| …
 |}
-===Using manual <span class="caps">XML</span> processing===
+=== Using manual XML processing ===
-Files using the <span class="caps">XML</span>-based (.pptx) format could be processed using Qt’s <span class="caps">XML</span> handling classes (see [[Handling Document Formats]]).
+Files using the XML-based (.pptx) format could be processed using Qt's XML handling classes (see [[Handling_Document_Formats | Handling Document Formats]]).
 …
-===Using batch conversion tools===
+=== Using batch conversion tools ===
 …
-==Rendering==
+== Rendering ==
-===Using PowerPoint itself===
+=== Using PowerPoint itself ===
-''<font size="0.9em"><font color="#530"><span class="caps">TODO</span>: If you know whether PowerPoint’s <span class="caps">COM</span> object (see above) supports rendering individual pages from a .ppt/.pptx presentation to images (e.g. for thumbnails), please edit this section.</font></font>''
+{| style="background-color:moccasin;" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="1"
+| TODO: If you know whether PowerPoint's COM object (see above) supports rendering individual pages from a .ppt/.pptx presentation to images
+(e.g. for thumbnails), please edit this section.
+|}
 …
-==Interactive Viewing==
+== Interactive Viewing ==
-===Using PowerPoint itself===
+=== Using PowerPoint itself ===
-''<font size="0.9em"><font color="#530"><span class="caps">TODO</span>: If you know whether PowerPoint provides a “viewer” ActiveX control that can be embedded in a Qt application through ActiveQT, please fill out this section (include links to relevant resources!)</font></font>''
+{| style="background-color:moccasin;" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="1"
+| TODO: If you know whether PowerPoint provides a "viewer" ActiveX control that can be embedded in a Qt application through ActiveQT, please
+fill out this section (include links to relevant resources!)
+|}
 …
-===Manual solution===
+=== Manual solution ===
 …
-<font color="#fff">.</font>
-==See Also==
+== See Also ==
-* [[Handling Document Formats]]
+* [[Handling_Document_Formats | Handling Document Formats]]
 ** ''other Microsoft Office formats:''
-*** [[Handling Microsoft Word file format|Microsoft Word]]
+*** [[Handling_Microsoft_Word_(file_format) | Microsoft Word]]
-*** [[Handling Microsoft Excel file format|Microsoft Excel]]
+*** [[Handling_Microsoft_Excel_(file_format) | Microsoft Excel]]
-** ''other “Presentation” document formats:''
+** ''other "Presentation" document formats:''
-*** [[Handling OpenDocument Presentation|OpenDocument Presentation]]
+*** [[Handling_OpenDocument_Presentation | OpenDocument Presentation]]
-===Categories:===
-* [[:Category:Developing with Qt|Developing_with_Qt]]

Handling Microsoft PowerPoint file format: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 14:27, 25 March 2015

Reading / Writing

Using PowerPoint itself

Using independent parser/writer libraries

Using manual XML processing

Using batch conversion tools

Rendering

Using PowerPoint itself

Interactive Viewing

Using PowerPoint itself

Manual solution

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