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).

…

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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-= Handling Microsoft PowerPoint (file format) =
-This page discusses various available options for working with "Microsoft PowerPoint":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint#File_formats documents in your Qt application. Please also read the general considerations outlined on the [[Handling_Document_Formats | Handling Document Formats]] page.
-p{width:60%;border:solid 1px #99a;background:#eef;color:#335;padding:2pt 4pt;font-size:0.9em;line-height:150%;font-style:italic}. 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!
-p{border:dashed 1px #a94;background:#fbf3dd;color:#530;padding:2pt 4pt;font-size:0.9em;line-height:150%;font-style:italic}. NOTE: This page is a stub. Please help expanding it.
+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):
-table{width:95%;margin-left:2.5%}.
-| |''. Legacy "PowerPoint Presentation" format |''. "Office Open XML Presentation" format |
+{| class="wikitable"
-| ''classification:'' | binary | XML-based |
+|
-| ''main filename extension:'' | {font:1em monospace}.ppt | {font-family:monospace}.pptx |
+! Legacy "PowerPoint Presentation" format
-| ''main internet media type:'' | {font:0.9em monospace}application/vnd.ms-powerpoint | {font:0.9em monospace}application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation |
+! "Office Open XML Presentation" format
-| ''native format of PowerPoint:'' | until PowerPoint 2003 | since PowerPoint 2007 |
+|-
+| ''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 ==
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 === 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":http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/activeqt.html 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":http://wiki.qt.io/Using_ActiveX_Object_in_QT (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] 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).
-table{width:95%;margin-left:2.5%}.
-| |''. DLL file name |''. COM object name |''. platforms |''. license |
+{| class="wikitable"
-| "'''Microsoft PowerPoint'''":http://office.microsoft.com/powerpoint/ | ? | {font-family:monospace}PowerPoint.Application | Windows | {color:#458}commercial |
+|
+! DLL file name
+! COM object name
+! platforms
+! license
+|-
+| [http://office.microsoft.com/powerpoint/ '''Microsoft PowerPoint''']
+| ?
+| PowerPoint.Application
+| Windows
+| commercial
+|}
 === Using independent parser/writer libraries ===
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-table{width:95%;margin-left:2.5%}.
-| |''. API |''. {font-family:monospace}.ppt |''. {font-family:monospace}.pptx |''. reading |''. writing |''. platforms |_. license |
-| "'''…'''":http://… | … | … | … | … | … | … | … |
+{| class="wikitable"
+|
+! API
+! .ppt
+! .pptx
+! reading
+! writing
+! platforms
+! license
+|-
+| …
+| …
+| …
+| …
+| …
+| …
+| …
+| …
+|}
 === Using manual XML processing ===
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 === Using PowerPoint itself ===
-p{border:dashed 1px #a94;background:#fbf3dd;color:#530;padding:2pt 4pt;font-size:0.9em;line-height:150%;font-style:italic}. 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.
+{| 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.
+|}
 …
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 === Using PowerPoint itself ===
-p{border:dashed 1px #a94;background:#fbf3dd;color:#530;padding:2pt 4pt;font-size:0.9em;line-height:150%;font-style:italic}. 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!)
+{| 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!)
+|}
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-p{color:#fff;border-bottom:solid 1px #ccc}. .
 == See Also ==

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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