converting .ppt files?

[Samir Nagheenanajar]

Is there a way to convert a .ppt to some kind of image programatically?

[Negative0]

Yes.

Are you planning on running this conversion on a user PC or a server?
Will the machine have powerpoint installed?

If they are running Powerpoint on the machine, you can use PowerPoint automation to save the presentation to TIFFs, BMPs, GIFs, JPGs, or WMFs.

If powerpoint may not be on the machine, there are some components that exist that can do the work for you and generate the images from slide.

[Samir Nagheenanajar]

Yes.

Are you planning on running this conversion on a user PC or a server?
Will the machine have powerpoint installed?

If they are running Powerpoint on the machine, you can use PowerPoint automation to save the presentation to TIFFs, BMPs, GIFs, JPGs, or WMFs.

If powerpoint may not be on the machine, there are some components that exist that can do the work for you and generate the images from slide.

The conversion will be on the server which has power point on it. Can you direct me to some information about doing this?

[Negative0]

Microsoft has a full article about automation on servers, I recommend you read it before you decide to the the automation on a server:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...US;q257757#kb2

I have used a product by a company called Aspose to manipulate word documents on a server and it worked very well. They have a powerpoint version of their product called Aspose.Slides.

As a word of warning, some of their product teams seem very disconnected, so the quality of one product might not carry over to other products. I had issues with converting Word docs, from their Words module, to a PDF, with their PDF module. The words team told me it was a pdf team problem and the pdf team told me it was a words team problem. With that being said, I have used 3 or 4 of their products in the past and they worked great, with very few issues like the one I stated above.