.NET API for PowerPoint File Formats

Create or clone slides from templates

Work with PowerPoint tables via API

Apply or remove the protection on shapes

Add Excel charts as OleObjects to slides

Support for Linked OleObjects

Generate presentations from database

Protect presentations & resultant PDF

Print presentations on a physical printer

Create & customize charts

Convert Presentation to PDF, HTML, TIFF or XPS in .NET C#

Aspose.Slides for .NET API has its own rendering engine, specially designed for rendering PowerPoint and OpenOffice formats with the highest fidelity. The .NET C# PowerPoint API allows you to export presentations into a number of industry-standard formats such as PDF, HTML, TIFF and XPS with results identical to the original presentation. Moreover, in order to convert a PPT in C#, you only need to load the presentation file and call the Save method along with the desired output format. C# PowerPoint conversion is really that simple with Aspose.Slides for .NET API.

// load the file to be converted

var prs = new Aspose.Slides.Presentation(dir + "template.pptx");

// render as PDF, XPS & TIFF

prs.Save(dir + "output.pdf", Aspose.Slides.Export.SaveFormat.Pdf);

prs.Save(dir + "output.xps", Aspose.Slides.Export.SaveFormat.Xps);

prs.Save(dir + "output.tiff", Aspose.Slides.Export.SaveFormat.Tiff);

Format Presentation Content in .NET C#

It is possible to format text and shapes on slides in C# using Aspose.Slides .NET API. Text on presentations is managed with the help of text frames associated with shapes. Hence making it easy for the developers to format text using paragraphs & portions associated with the text frames. You can also manipulate attributes of shape elements like position, size, line, image, text and fill using our C# PowerPoint API.

Create and modify PowerPoint SmartArt in .NET C#

Aspose.Slides for .NET facilitates in creating SmartArt shapes from scratch as well as provides the ability to access, manipulate or remove existing SmartArt objects from a slide. Furthermore, the .NET C# PowerPoint API provides the ability to add, remove or iterate the nodes of a SmartArt. You may also dynamically modify the SmartArt's appearance such as setting style, color & layout.

Protect Presentation in .NET C#

Aspose.Slides for .NET API can lock presentation files in order to protect the contents from changing. Developers may also password protect the PPT in C#, as well as the converted PDF document for secure distribution. The C# PowerPoint API also supports the read-only access mode for the generated presentations and its document properties.

Create Presentation Viewer with Slide Thumbnails in .NET C#

Aspose.Slides for .NET can generate thumbnails of the slides so that you may distribute slide images to those users who do not have the PowerPoint application installed on their machines. You may use the C# PowerPoint API to view PPT in .NET C# application of any type: custom website, desktop app, etc. Use this feature to create your own presentation viewer in C#.

// load the presentation file

var prs = new Aspose.Slides.Presentation(dir + "template.pptx");

// access the first slide from the collection

var sld = prs.Slides[0];

// create a full scale image of the slide

var bmp = sld.GetThumbnail(1f, 1f);

// save the image in JPEG format

bmp.Save(dir + "output.jpg", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg);

Microsoft Office Automation – Not Needed

Aspose.Slides for .NET is built using managed code that does not need Microsoft Office or Microsoft PowerPoint to be installed on the machine to work with PowerPoint document formats. It is a perfect Microsoft Office automation alternative in terms of supported features, security, stability, scale-ability, speed and price.