Can you create dynamic PowerPoint files on the fly with ASP and/or COM on the server?

[TheDan666]

Hello All,

I've got a question regarding PowerPoint and ASP. We've got a client who we are creating an online training system for. Data for modules and lessons will be stored in a database and the primary viewing of the content will be with with ASP generated dynamic web pages.

This is not a problem. The problem is that they also want to be able to have a button/link that when you click it will allow them to download a Microsoft PowerPoint version of the data. Basically we would need to get all of the data from the database and then write to a new PowerPoint file and save it to the server directory and redirect the browser to that file so they could download it.

Does anyone know how to do this? Is there an easy, or even hard, way to do this? I've checked for 3rd party ASP compoenents to do this any only found one that could create dynamic Adobe Acrobat files. Surely there has to be a way to do this through COM to automate the PowerPoint API.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris

[Memnoch1207]

You can package the powerpoint presentation from within powerpoint. Using the "Pack and Go" option from the "File" menu. Then create a link to dl that package. Depending on the size you may also need to zip it.