Python and Powerpoint 3.0

I made some changes in the script to create a powerpoint slides with python (through python-pptx). I think that is more readable (IMO) and so, here it is, with an example that explain itself.

from pptx import Presentation
import os


prs = Presentation()
layout = prs.slide_layouts[1]


def create_slides(filename, content):
    content = content.splitlines()
    for s in content:
        if "#" in s:
            tit, cont = s.split("#")
            slide = prs.slides.add_slide(layout)
            slide.shapes.title.text = tit
            slide.placeholders[1].text = cont
        else:
            pass
    prs.save(filename)
    os.startfile(filename)


content = """Python and Powerpoint # You can make great stuffs with Python to manipulate Powerpoint

Python pptx # You need to install python-pptx first

Create a new file # import Presentation from pptx and then create an istance of the class Presentation

Choose a layout # Powerpoint had different layouts for slides, use prs.layouts[1], it is the most generic

Create a new slide # Use the name of the istance (ex: prs) followed by .slides.add_slide(layout), where layout comes from layout = prs.slide_layouts[1], as I said in the previous slide

Title # add it with slide.shapes.title.text = "Some title"

subtitle # add it with slide.placeholders[1].text = "Some content"
"""

filename = create_slides("Example.pptx", content)

Live coding video to make slides in powerpoint with Python

The slides output:

Adding the same image on each page

In case you want to make a sort of template for each image, you can add this line to the code above:

slide.shapes.add_picture("python.png", 0, 0)

The whole code

from pptx import Presentation
import os


prs = Presentation()
layout = prs.slide_layouts[1]


def create_slides(filename, content):
    content = content.splitlines()
    for s in content:
        if "#" in s:
            tit, cont = s.split("#")
            slide = prs.slides.add_slide(layout)
            slide.shapes.title.text = tit
            slide.placeholders[1].text = cont
            slide.shapes.add_picture("python.png", 0, 0)
        else:
            pass
    prs.save(filename)
    os.startfile(filename)


content = """Python and Powerpoint # You can make great stuffs with Python to manipulate Powerpoint

Python pptx # You need to install python-pptx first

Create a new file # import Presentation from pptx and then create an istance of the class Presentation

Choose a layout # Powerpoint had different layouts for slides, use prs.layouts[1], it is the most generic

Create a new slide # Use the name of the istance (ex: prs) followed by .slides.add_slide(layout), where layout comes from layout = prs.slide_layouts[1], as I said in the previous slide

Title # add it with slide.shapes.title.text = "Some title"

subtitle # add it with slide.placeholders[1].text = "Some content"
"""

filename = create_slides("Example.pptx", content)

the output

How to insert in image in a placeholder

from pptx import Presentation
import os

prs = Presentation()

class MySlide:
    def __init__(self, data):
        self.layout = prs.slide_layouts[data[3]]
        self.slide=prs.slides.add_slide(self.layout)
        self.title=self.slide.shapes.title
        self.title.text=data[0]
        self.subtitle=self.slide.placeholders[1]
        self.subtitle.text=data[1]
        if data[2] != "":
        	self.slide.placeholders[2].insert_picture(data[2])

slides = [
    ["USA Weather",       #data[0]
     "Subtitle(Bullet)",
     "girl.png",
     3],
    ["Malaysia Weather",       #data[0]
     "Content(Bullet)",
     "",
     3],
    ["China Weather",       #data[0]
     "This is a brown Fox",
     "",
     3]
]

for each_slide in slides:
    MySlide(each_slide)

prs.save("stack.pptx")
os.startfile("stack.pptx")

 

Python and Powerpoint