convert ppt file to a XML file

[william]

I am trying to convert ppt to a xml file, which means that I will also
extract the different shapes in the ppt file. What I am using is VS.Net2005
plus office 2003 interop assembly. The problem is that when I try to extract
the animated gif from the ppt file, the extracted gif image file is not
animated. And also how can I retrieve the original image's width and height,
so when I extract the image I can use these values.

Here is my current C# code:
int pixWidth = activeWindow.PointsToScreenPixelsX(shape.Width);
int pixHeight = activeWindow.PointsToScreenPixelsY(shape.Height);
shape.Export(fullFileName, PowerPoint.PpShapeFormat.ppShapeFormatGIF,
pixWidth, pixHeight, PowerPoint.PpExportMode.ppScaleToFit);

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[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?d2lsbGlhbQ==?=,

I am trying to convert ppt to a xml file, which means that I will also
extract the different shapes in the ppt file. What I am using is VS.Net2005
plus office 2003 interop assembly. The problem is that when I try to extract
the animated gif from the ppt file, the extracted gif image file is not
animated. And also how can I retrieve the original image's width and height,
so when I extract the image I can use these values.

Since you've posted this as a "Suggestion", not a question, I feel I should
point out that Microsoft has made XML the basic file format for Office 2007
(including Powerpoint) and that there should be a converter available that will
allow earlier versions to both open and save in that file format.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[william]

Sorry, I should put this on the question list. What I described is current
solution I had. I still want to know the better solution. Becasue you save
the ppt file as the html files, it can retain the animated gif file.

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?d2lsbGlhbQ==?=,

What I described is current
solution I had. I still want to know the better solution.

The optimal place to get a discussion going, then, would be
the one-and-only powerpoint newsgroup, where the
specialists hang out

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Sorry, I should put this on the question list. What I described is current
solution I had. I still want to know the better solution. Becasue you save
the ppt file as the html files, it can retain the animated gif file.

That's one answer.

Save as HTML programmatically. I forget the rules offhand, but as I recall it wasn't too
difficult to work out which of the saved files was the GIF that matched the one on any given
slide.