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Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET is a powerful on-premise class library used for processing and working with presentations. With this API, developers and applications get to generate, modify, convert, render, print, and manipulate presentations without relying on Microsoft PowerPoint or other third-party applications and services.

Without having to install a PowerPoint program or any 3rd party component, you can use Aspose.Slides to build different types applications. For example, Aspose, using its own APIs, developed a free web application that allows people to convert their PDF documents to PowerPoint Presentation online.

Aspose.Slides for Python requires you to use python programming language. For C++, Java and .NET languages, we recommend you get Aspose.Slides for C++, Aspose.Slides for Java and Aspose.Slides for .NET, respectively.

Slides API Features

Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET provides these popular features:

  • Loading, opening, and viewing presentations
  • Editing presentations
  • Converting presentations to PDF, Word, JPG, HTML, GIF, SVG, and many other formats
  • Rendering and printing presentations
  • Encrypting and decrypting presentations; password-protecting presentations and removing passwords
  • Manipulating presentation entities, such as master slides, shapes, charts, picture frames, audio frames, video frames, OLE, VBA macros, animations, etc.

Supported File Formats

With Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET, developers and applications can load presentations in these formats (and also save files in them):

Microsoft presentation formats OpenOffice presentation formats Other file formats
Microsoft PowerPoint 97 ODP PDF
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 OTP TIFF
Microsoft PowerPoint XP EMF
Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 XPS
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 JPEG
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 PNG
Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 GIF
Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 BMP
Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 SVG
Microsoft PowerPoint for MAC SWF
Office 365 XAML
HTML

Platform Independence

Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET can be used to develop 32-bit and 64-bit applications for different operating systems (such as Windows, Linux and macOS) where Python 3.5 or later is installed.

Get Started

Ready to try Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET?

Fetch the package and install Aspose.Slides. Run this command: pip install aspose-slides

If you already have Aspose.Slides installed and want to get the latest version, you have to run pip install --upgrade aspose-slides instead.

Check out Aspose.Slides for Python for .NET documentation).

MacOS and Linux Installation

On macOS/Linux, you must install libgdiplus before using this package:

  • macOS: brew install mono-libgdiplus
  • Linux: sudo apt-get install libgdiplus

For complete setup instructions, see installation guide (https://docs.aspose.com/slides/python-net/installation/)

Create a Presentation (PPTX file) from scratch in Python

import aspose.slides as slides

# Instantiate a Presentation object that represents a presentation file
with slides.Presentation() as presentation:
    slide = presentation.slides[0]
    slide.shapes.add_auto_shape(slides.ShapeType.LINE, 50, 150, 300, 0)
    presentation.save("NewPresentation_out.pptx", slides.export.SaveFormat.PPTX)

Convert a Presentation to PDF

import aspose.slides as slides

# Instantiate a Presentation object that represents a PPT file
presentation = slides.Presentation("PowerPoint.ppt")

# Save the presentation as PDF
presentation.save("PPT-to-PDF.pdf", slides.export.SaveFormat.PDF)

Import PDF and Save it as a Presentation

import aspose.slides as slides

with slides.Presentation() as pres:
    pres.slides.remove_at(0)
    pres.slides.add_from_pdf("welcome-to-powerpoint.pdf")
    pres.save("OutputPresentation.pptx", slides.export.SaveFormat.PPTX)

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