kunshy / PptxTemplater

C# library to generate PowerPoint files from templates

C# library to generate PowerPoint files from templates

This library uses the Office Open XML format (pptx) through the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office. Generated files should be opened using Microsoft PowerPoint >= 2010.

PptxTemplater handles:

• Text tags
• Slides (add/remove)
• Slide notes
• Tables (add/remove columns)
• Pictures

Example

Create a PowerPoint template with two slides and inserts tags ({{hello}}, {{bonjour}}, {{hola}}) in it, then generate the final PowerPoint file using the following code:

const string srcFileName = "template.pptx";
const string dstFileName = "final.pptx";
File.Delete(dstFileName);
File.Copy(srcFileName, dstFileName);

Pptx pptx = new Pptx(dstFileName, FileAccess.ReadWrite);
int nbSlides = pptx.SlidesCount();
Assert.AreEqual(2, nbSlides);

// First slide
{
    PptxSlide slide = pptx.GetSlide(0);
    slide.ReplaceTag("{{hello}}", "HELLO HOW ARE YOU?", PptxSlide.ReplacementType.Global);
    slide.ReplaceTag("{{bonjour}}", "BONJOUR TOUT LE MONDE", PptxSlide.ReplacementType.Global);
    slide.ReplaceTag("{{hola}}", "HOLA MAMA QUE TAL?", PptxSlide.ReplacementType.Global);
}

// Second slide
{
    PptxSlide slide = pptx.GetSlide(1);
    slide.ReplaceTag("{{hello}}", "H", PptxSlide.ReplacementType.Global);
    slide.ReplaceTag("{{bonjour}}", "B", PptxSlide.ReplacementType.Global);
    slide.ReplaceTag("{{hola}}", "H", PptxSlide.ReplacementType.Global);
}

Implementation

The source code is clean, documented, tested and should be stable. A good amount of unit tests come with the source code.