NAME

Win32::PowerPoint - helps to convert texts to PP slides

SYNOPSIS

    use Win32::PowerPoint;

    # invoke (or connect to) PowerPoint
    my $pp = Win32::PowerPoint->new;

    $pp->new_presentation;

    ... (load and parse your slide text)

    foreach my $slide (@slides) {
      $pp->new_slide;

      $pp->add_text($slide->title, { size => 40, bold => 1 });
      $pp->add_text($slide->body);
      $pp->add_text($slide->link,  { link => $slide->link });
    }

    $pp->save_presentation('slide.ppt');

    $pp->close_presentation;

    # PowerPoint closes automatically

DESCRIPTION

Win32::PowerPoint mainly aims to help to convert Spork (or Sporx) texts to PowerPoint slides. Though there's no converter at the moment, you can add texts to your new slides/presentation and save it.

METHODS

new

Invokes (or connects to) PowerPoint.

connect_or_invoke

Explicitly connects to (or invoke) PowerPoint.

quit

Explicitly disconnects and close PowerPoint this module (or you) invoked.

new_presentation

Creates a new (probably blank) presentation.

save_presentation (path)

Saves the presentation to where you specified. Accepts relative path. You might want to save it as .pps (slideshow) file to make it easy to show slides (it just starts full screen slideshow with doubleclick).

close_presentation

Explicitly closes the presentation.

new_slide

Adds a new (blank) slide to the presentation.

add_text (text, option)

Adds (formatted) text to the slide. Options are:

left, top, width, height

of the Textbox.

bold, italic, underline, size

of the Text.

link

hyperlink address of the Text.

IF YOU WANT TO GO INTO DETAIL

This module uses Win32::OLE internally. You can fully control PowerPoint through these accessors.

application

returns Application object.

    print $pp->application->Name;

presentation

returns current Presentation object (maybe ActivePresentation but that's not assured).

    $pp->save_presentation('sample.ppt') unless $pp->presentation->Saved;

    while (my $last = $pp->presentation->Slides->Count) {
      $pp->presentation->Slides($last)->Delete;
    }

slide

returns current Slide object.

    $pp->slide->Export(".\\slide_01.jpg",'jpg');

    $pp->slide->Shapes(1)->TextFrame->TextRange
       ->Characters(1, 5)->Font->{Bold} = $pp->{c}->True;

AUTHOR

Kenichi Ishigaki, <ishigaki@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Kenichi Ishigaki

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

cpanm Win32::PowerPoint

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Win32::PowerPoint