Skip to main content

Presentation Manipulation Python API

banner

Product Page | Docs | Demos | API Reference | Blog | Search | Free Support | Release Notes | Temporary License

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)

Product Page | Docs | Demos | API Reference | Blog | Search | Free Support | Release Notes | Temporary License

Release files for aspose-slides 26.8.1

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Built distributions (wheels)

Table of built distributions (wheels) for aspose-slides 26.8.1
File
aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-win_amd64.whl Python 3 none Windows x86-64 Details
aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-win32.whl Python 3 none Windows x86-32 Details
aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-manylinux2014_aarch64.whl Python 3 none Linux glibc 2.17+ ARM64 Details
aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl Python 3 none Linux glibc 2.5+ x86-64 Details
aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl Python 3 none macOS 11.0+ ARM64 Details
aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-macosx_10_14_x86_64.whl Python 3 none macOS 10.14+ x86-64 Details

Total release size: 285.1 MB

Release files / aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-win_amd64.whl

Download URL aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-win_amd64.whl
Size 49.0 MB
Tags Python 3 Windows x86-64
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
9434cbceb313923a422a5b6d49eae944f465e362cd8e02f1bbca215cac5e3167
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
483f9d04e09352eddcd41085cacb3176e5eca86740150908d4a570f208031c04
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No
Uploaded via twine/7.0.0 CPython/3.13.12

Release files / aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-win32.whl

Download URL aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-win32.whl
Size 46.2 MB
Tags Python 3 Windows x86-32
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
e7914162ec7f4b474388138d8b20e6d7d24fca2bb3a32a467809612cd18174e2
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
8a42736f43baed8a8137d9def23cd78837b64fe3d558d4bdde0a4ac4b7f19791
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No
Uploaded via twine/7.0.0 CPython/3.13.12

Release files / aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-manylinux2014_aarch64.whl

Download URL aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-manylinux2014_aarch64.whl
Size 46.9 MB
Tags Linux glibc 2.17+ ARM64 Python 3
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
eca9ef6963dd22a8703fb83492e86be5faaaf84c9e7d606dade986bd835e0f3d
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
2bd4c74e78a95acc9dcf344ea1d102847cd5f6df3ffcb8ed55625eabc85cdbb5
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No
Uploaded via twine/7.0.0 CPython/3.13.12

Release files / aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl

Download URL aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
Size 49.1 MB
Tags Linux glibc 2.5+ x86-64 Python 3
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
6522cb6c4fe4c7a1be090fb41a841e8a45b904b69d8db62da0b1fe41f13d33db
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
f960d41ff26558fef69807687e4d8635c8dd068bfe2d293821b629355ab3c7ca
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No
Uploaded via twine/7.0.0 CPython/3.13.12

Release files / aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl

Download URL aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl
Size 45.9 MB
Tags Python 3 macOS 11.0+ ARM64
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
529e2d8311be2510dd77b4a0fca2aa4511e183262f3998ccccef57595b885aa3
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
069ffd980eab04055b578976a7a43003a39f4d6e7397e9f93685eab55c0bdc11
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No
Uploaded via twine/7.0.0 CPython/3.13.12

Release files / aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-macosx_10_14_x86_64.whl

Download URL aspose_slides-26.8.1-py3-none-macosx_10_14_x86_64.whl
Size 48.1 MB
Tags Python 3 macOS 10.14+ x86-64
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
e228dd5f3858319f2170d19cb786acc648cbbc91ef4968a4129e1cb143002599
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
29e7c77ce445b9d0c453592b39e6b2b145070865d9382c57af84d628728e1d8f
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No
Uploaded via twine/7.0.0 CPython/3.13.12

Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

This release

26.8.1 This release

6 release files

26.4.0

5 release files

26.3.0

5 release files

26.2.0

5 release files

26.1.0

5 release files

25.9.0

5 release files

25.8.0

5 release files

25.7.0

5 release files

25.6.0

5 release files

25.5.0

5 release files

25.4.0

5 release files

25.3.0

5 release files

25.2.0

5 release files

25.1.0

5 release files

24.9.0

5 release files

24.8.0

5 release files

24.7.0

5 release files

24.6.0

5 release files

24.5.0

5 release files

24.4.0

5 release files

24.3.0

5 release files

24.2.0

5 release files

24.1.0

5 release files

23.9.0

4 release files

23.8.0

4 release files

23.7.0

4 release files

23.6.0

4 release files

23.5.0

4 release files

23.4.0

4 release files

23.3.0

4 release files

23.2.0

4 release files

23.1.0

4 release files

22.7.0

3 release files

22.4.0

3 release files

22.1

3 release files

21.11

3 release files

Anthropic, PBC Visionary sponsor Bloomberg Visionary sponsor Hudson River Trading Visionary sponsor Meta Visionary sponsor NVIDIA Visionary sponsor Microsoft Sustainability sponsor Depot Continuous Integration AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page