Convert PPT to SVG in PHP

Powerful PowerPoint PHP library for converting PPT to SVG

Convert PPT to SVG in PHP

Convert PPT slides to SVG programmatically with Aspose.Slides for PHP via Java . Load a PowerPoint 97-2003 presentation and export every slide as an individual scalable vector image with a few lines of PHP code.

Aspose.Slides exports a slide through its writeAsSvg method and a Java output stream. You can also try the PPT-to-SVG conversion in your browser before integrating it into your application.

You can install the library from Composer using the following command:

Console/Terminal

composer require aspose/slides

Save PPT as SVG in PHP

Use the free app to see a demonstration of the PPT-to-SVG conversion process.

This sample code shows PPT-to-SVG conversion in PHP

$presentation = new Presentation("input.ppt");
try {
    $slideCount = java_values($presentation->getSlides()->size());

    for ($slideIndex = 0; $slideIndex < $slideCount; $slideIndex++) {
        $slide = $presentation->getSlides()->get_Item($slideIndex);
        $filePath = "slide_" . ($slideIndex + 1) . ".svg";
        $outputStream = new Java("java.io.FileOutputStream", $filePath);

        try {
            $slide->writeAsSvg($outputStream);
        } finally {
            $outputStream->close();
        }
    }
} finally {
    $presentation->dispose();
}

How to Convert PPT to SVG in PHP

These are the steps to convert a PPT file to SVG using PHP.

  1. Load the PPT file into a Presentation instance.
  2. Access each slide through a variable and create an output stream for its SVG file.
  3. Call writeAsSvg to export each slide to the corresponding stream.

System Requirements

Before running the PHP conversion sample, make sure that you have the following prerequisites.

  1. Install PHP 7 or later, add the PHP directory to the system PATH, and set allow_url_include to On in php.ini.
  2. Install JRE 8 and set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the installed JRE directory.
  3. Install Apache Tomcat 8.0 as described in the installation guide .

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