You’ll remember that a few days back I’ve posted a code snippet which demonstrates how to create a PowerPoint presentation from scratch using System.IO.Packaging.
Here is the next part of the same code which is “works on my machine” certified :)
This is a simple WinForms Application which demonstrates how to pull the slides from a presentation and creates a new presentation.
In simplest terms this is what the code is doing -
1. It let’s you browse to a PowerPoint presentation, iterates through all the slides and displays the slide heading (GetSlideTitles)
2. Once you select the slides you want from the presentation, it pulls those slides and associated slide layouts from the presentation. Then it adds the slides to a new presentation. (PullSlide, GetURIFromTitle, AddSlide)
Imports System.IO Imports System.IO.Packaging Imports System.Xml Public Class Form1 Dim ppt As New pptHelper Private Sub SelectFile_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SelectFile.Click Dim rs As DialogResult Dim items() As Object = Nothing OpenFileDialog1.Filter = "PowerPoint Presentation|*.pptx" rs = OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog() If rs = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then SlideList.Items.Clear() items = ppt.GetSlideTitles(OpenFileDialog1.FileName).ToArray() SlideList.Items.AddRange(items) End If End Sub Public Sub MoveSlide(ByVal filename As String, ByVal slidetitle As String, ByVal remove As Boolean) ' function which will be called from "move" and "move all" SelectedSlides.Items.Add(slidetitle) ' add it to the selected slide list If remove Then SlideList.Items.Remove(SlideList.SelectedItem) ' removing it from the slidelist (just to ensure that you don't add slides multiple times) End If End Sub Private Sub Move_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SelectSlide.Click MoveSlide(OpenFileDialog1.FileName, SlideList.SelectedItem.ToString, True) End Sub Private Sub MoveAll_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SelectAll.Click For Each o As Object In SlideList.Items ' Iterating through the listbox and moving everything to selected file list MoveSlide(OpenFileDialog1.FileName, o.ToString, False) Next o SlideList.Items.Clear() ' clearing the list End Sub Private Sub CreatePresentation_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CreatePresentation.Click Dim rs As DialogResult Dim source As Package = Nothing Dim target As Package = Nothing 'Dim p As Package = Nothing SaveFileDialog1.Filter = "PowerPoint Presentation|*.pptx" rs = SaveFileDialog1.ShowDialog() If rs = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then target = Package.Open(SaveFileDialog1.FileName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite) source = Package.Open(OpenFileDialog1.FileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read) End If ppt.CreateBasicPresentation(target) For Each s As Object In SelectedSlides.Items ppt.CopySlide(source, target, s.ToString(), pptHelper.relations.slidePart) Next target.Flush() target.Close() MsgBox("Done!") End Sub End Class Public Class pptHelper Public Class contents Public Shared presentation = "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation.main+xml" Public Shared slidemaster = "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideMaster+xml" Public Shared slideLayout = "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideLayout+xml" Public Shared slidePart = "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slide+xml" Public Shared themePart = "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.theme+xml" End Class Public Class relations Public Shared officedocument = "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/officeDocument" Public Shared slidemaster = "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/slideMaster" Public Shared slidelayout = "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/slideLayout" Public Shared slidePart = "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/slide" Public Shared themePart = "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/theme" Public Shared mainPart = "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/presentationml/2006/main" Public Shared relationship = "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships" End Class Dim id As Integer = CInt(New Random().NextDouble * 10000) Public Function AddSlide(ByVal pkg As Package, ByVal sldPart As PackagePart) As Boolean Dim xmlDoc As New XmlDocument Dim rId As String Dim xNode As XmlNode Dim partUri As Uri ' manage namespaces to perform Xml XPath queries. Dim nt As New NameTable() Dim nsManager As New XmlNamespaceManager(nt) nsManager.AddNamespace("p", relations.mainPart) nsManager.AddNamespace("r", relations.relationship) ' end manage Dim slide As PackagePart = pkg.CreatePart(sldPart.Uri, sldPart.ContentType) ' connect it with doc part and update document.xml Dim doc As PackagePart = pkg.GetPart(New Uri("/ppt/presentation.xml", UriKind.Relative)) rId = doc.CreateRelationship(slide.Uri, TargetMode.Internal, relations.slidePart).Id xmlDoc.Load(doc.GetStream()) xNode = xmlDoc.CreateNode(XmlNodeType.Element, "p", "sldId", relations.mainPart) Dim attrId As XmlAttribute = xmlDoc.CreateAttribute("id") attrId.Value = id.ToString() Dim attrRId As XmlAttribute = xmlDoc.CreateAttribute("r:id", relations.relationship) attrRId.Value = rId xNode.Attributes.SetNamedItem(attrId) xNode.Attributes.SetNamedItem(attrRId) 'xNode.Attributes. = "<p:sldId id=" & id.ToString() & " r:id=" & rId & "/>" id = id + 1 xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//p:sldIdLst", nsManager).AppendChild(xNode) xmlDoc.Save(doc.GetStream(FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite)) ' end connect 'get slide layout part from the slide For Each r As PackageRelationship In sldPart.GetRelationshipsByType(relations.slidelayout) Console.WriteLine(r.TargetUri.OriginalString) partUri = PackUriHelper.ResolvePartUri(r.SourceUri, r.TargetUri) Exit For ' only one layout Next Dim lyt_src As PackagePart = sldPart.Package.GetPart(partUri) Dim layout As PackagePart = Nothing Try layout = pkg.CreatePart(lyt_src.Uri, lyt_src.ContentType) xmlDoc.Load(lyt_src.GetStream()) xmlDoc.Save(layout.GetStream(FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite)) ' add relationships Dim master As PackagePart = pkg.GetPart(New Uri("/ppt/slideMasters/slideMaster1.xml", UriKind.Relative)) rId = master.CreateRelationship(layout.Uri, TargetMode.Internal, relations.slidelayout).Id xNode = xmlDoc.CreateNode(XmlNodeType.Element, "p", "sldLayoutId", relations.mainPart) attrId = xmlDoc.CreateAttribute("id") ''BUGBUG: id attribute of <sldLayoutId> element needs to be pulled from the source presentation/package Dim srcSldMasterPart As PackagePart = sldPart.Package.GetPart(New Uri("/ppt/slideMasters/slideMaster1.xml", UriKind.Relative)) Dim xmlDocSrcMaster As New XmlDocument Dim sSldLayourRId As String = "" Dim sldLytPartUri As Uri xmlDocSrcMaster.Load(srcSldMasterPart.GetStream()) For Each r As PackageRelationship In srcSldMasterPart.GetRelationshipsByType(relations.slidelayout) Console.WriteLine(r.TargetUri.OriginalString) sldLytPartUri = PackUriHelper.ResolvePartUri(r.SourceUri, r.TargetUri) If Uri.Compare(sldLytPartUri, partUri, UriComponents.Path, UriFormat.Unescaped, StringComparison.CurrentCulture) = 0 Then sSldLayourRId = r.Id Exit For End If Next Dim xmlNodeSrcLayoutId As XmlNode = xmlDocSrcMaster.SelectSingleNode("//p:sldLayoutIdLst/p:sldLayoutId[@r:id='" & sSldLayourRId & "']", nsManager) Dim sSlideLayoutId As String = xmlNodeSrcLayoutId.Attributes.GetNamedItem("id").Value attrId.Value = sSlideLayoutId attrRId = xmlDoc.CreateAttribute("r:id", relations.relationship) attrRId.Value = rId xNode.Attributes.SetNamedItem(attrId) xNode.Attributes.SetNamedItem(attrRId) 'xNode.Value = "<p:sldLayoutId id=" & id.ToString & " r:id=" & rId & "/>" id = id + 1 layout.CreateRelationship(master.Uri, TargetMode.Internal, relations.slidemaster) xmlDoc.Load(master.GetStream()) xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//p:sldLayoutIdLst", nsManager).AppendChild(xNode) xmlDoc.Save(master.GetStream(FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite)) ' end add Catch ex As Exception layout = pkg.GetPart(lyt_src.Uri) End Try 'end get slide.CreateRelationship(layout.Uri, TargetMode.Internal, relations.slidelayout) xmlDoc.Load(sldPart.GetStream()) xmlDoc.Save(slide.GetStream(FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite)) End Function Public Function PullSlide(ByRef pkg As Package, ByVal uri As Uri, ByVal relationship As String) As PackagePart Dim p As PackagePart = pkg.GetPart(uri) Return p End Function Public Function CopySlide(ByRef sourcePkg As Package, ByRef tgtPkg As Package, ByVal sourceSlide As String, ByVal relationship As String) As Boolean Dim sourceUri As Uri = GetUriByTitle(sourcePkg, sourceSlide) Dim p As PackagePart = PullSlide(sourcePkg, sourceUri, relationship) Return AddSlide(tgtPkg, p) End Function Public Sub CreateBasicPresentation(ByRef p As Package) Dim xmlDoc As New XmlDocument xmlDoc.LoadXml(My.Resources.presentation) Dim docUri As Uri = PackUriHelper.CreatePartUri(New Uri("ppt/presentation.xml", UriKind.Relative)) Dim docPart As PackagePart = p.CreatePart(docUri, contents.presentation) p.CreateRelationship(docPart.Uri, TargetMode.Internal, relations.officedocument) xmlDoc.Save(docPart.GetStream(FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite)) Dim themeUri As Uri = PackUriHelper.CreatePartUri(New Uri("ppt/theme/theme1.xml", UriKind.Relative)) Dim themePart As PackagePart = p.CreatePart(themeUri, contents.themePart) docPart.CreateRelationship(themePart.Uri, TargetMode.Internal, relations.themePart) xmlDoc.LoadXml(My.Resources.theme1) xmlDoc.Save(themePart.GetStream(FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite)) Dim slideMasterUri As Uri = PackUriHelper.CreatePartUri(New Uri("/ppt/slidemasters/slidemaster1.xml", UriKind.Relative)) Dim slideMasterPart As PackagePart = p.CreatePart(slideMasterUri, contents.slidemaster) docPart.CreateRelationship(slideMasterPart.Uri, TargetMode.Internal, relations.slidemaster, "rId1") xmlDoc.LoadXml(My.Resources.slideMaster1) slideMasterPart.CreateRelationship(themePart.Uri, TargetMode.Internal, relations.themePart) xmlDoc.Save(slideMasterPart.GetStream(FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite)) End Sub Public Function GetSlideTitles(ByVal fileName As String) As List(Of String) ' Return a generic list containing all the slide titles. ' Fill this collection with a list of all the titles ' of all the slides in the requested slide deck. Dim titles As New List(Of String) Dim documentPart As PackagePart = Nothing Dim documentUri As Uri = Nothing Using pptPackage As Package = Package.Open(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read) ' Get the main document part (presentation.xml). For Each relationship As PackageRelationship In pptPackage.GetRelationshipsByType(relations.officedocument) documentUri = PackUriHelper.ResolvePartUri(New Uri("/", UriKind.Relative), relationship.TargetUri) documentPart = pptPackage.GetPart(documentUri) ' There's only one document part. Get out now. Exit For Next ' Manage namespaces to perform Xml XPath queries. Dim nt As New NameTable() Dim nsManager As New XmlNamespaceManager(nt) nsManager.AddNamespace("p", relations.mainPart) ' Iterate through the slides and extract the title string from each. Dim xDoc As New XmlDocument(nt) xDoc.Load(documentPart.GetStream()) Dim sheetNodes As XmlNodeList = xDoc.SelectNodes("//p:sldIdLst/p:sldId", nsManager) If sheetNodes IsNot Nothing Then Dim relAttr As XmlAttribute = Nothing Dim sheetRelationship As PackageRelationship = Nothing Dim sheetPart As PackagePart = Nothing Dim sheetUri As Uri = Nothing Dim sheetDoc As XmlDocument = Nothing Dim titleNode As XmlNode = Nothing ' Look at each sheet node, retrieving the relationship id. For Each xNode As XmlNode In sheetNodes relAttr = xNode.Attributes("r:id") If relAttr IsNot Nothing Then ' Retrieve the PackageRelationship object for the sheet: sheetRelationship = documentPart.GetRelationship(relAttr.Value) If sheetRelationship IsNot Nothing Then sheetUri = PackUriHelper.ResolvePartUri(documentUri, sheetRelationship.TargetUri) sheetPart = pptPackage.GetPart(sheetUri) If sheetPart IsNot Nothing Then ' You've got a reference to the sheet. Now load its contents and ' find the title. sheetDoc = New XmlDocument(nt) sheetDoc.Load(sheetPart.GetStream()) titleNode = sheetDoc.SelectSingleNode("//p:sp//p:ph[@type='title' or @type='ctrTitle']", nsManager) If titleNode IsNot Nothing Then titles.Add(titleNode.ParentNode.ParentNode.ParentNode.InnerText) End If End If End If End If Next End If End Using Return titles End Function Public Function GetUriByTitle(ByRef pptPackage As Package, ByVal slideTitle As String) As Uri ' Given a slide document and a slide title, retrieve the 0-based index of the ' first slide with a matching title. Return -1 if the title isn't found. ' Note: This code assumes that the first text found is the title. ' Also note that if the title contains more than one font, ' or is in any way anything other than plain text, PowerPoint ' breaks it up into multiple elements. This code won't find a match ' in that case. Dim returnValue As Uri Dim documentPart As PackagePart = Nothing 'Using pptPackage As Package = package ' Get the main document part (presentation.xml). For Each relationship As PackageRelationship In pptPackage.GetRelationshipsByType(relations.officedocument) Dim documentUri As Uri = PackUriHelper.ResolvePartUri(New Uri("/", UriKind.Relative), relationship.TargetUri) documentPart = pptPackage.GetPart(documentUri) ' There is only one document. Exit For Next ' Manage namespaces to perform Xml XPath queries. Dim nt As New NameTable() Dim nsManager As New XmlNamespaceManager(nt) nsManager.AddNamespace("p", relations.mainPart) nsManager.AddNamespace("r", relations.relationship) ' Get the contents of the presentation part. Dim presentationDoc As New XmlDocument(nt) presentationDoc.Load(documentPart.GetStream()) ' Iterate through the slides and extract the title string from each. Dim slidePart As PackagePart = Nothing Dim slideUri As Uri = Nothing ' Select each slide document part (slides/slideX.xml) ' via relationship with document part. For Each relation As PackageRelationship In documentPart.GetRelationshipsByType(relations.slidePart) slideUri = PackUriHelper.ResolvePartUri(documentPart.Uri, relation.TargetUri) slidePart = pptPackage.GetPart(slideUri) ' Get the slide part from the package. Dim doc As XmlDocument = New XmlDocument(nt) ' Load the slide contents: doc.Load(slidePart.GetStream()) ' Locate the slide title using XPath. Dim titleNode As XmlNode = doc.SelectSingleNode("//p:sp//p:ph[@type='title' or @type='ctrTitle']", nsManager) If titleNode IsNot Nothing Then ' Perform a case-insensitive comparison. Dim titleText As String = titleNode.ParentNode.ParentNode.ParentNode.InnerText If String.Compare(titleText, slideTitle, True) = 0 Then ' You've found the slide part with a matching title. ' Get the relationship ID, and find the corresponding item in the ' document part: Dim searchString As String = String.Format("//p:sldIdLst/p:sldId[@r:id='{0}']", relation.Id) Dim node As XmlNode = presentationDoc.SelectSingleNode(searchString, nsManager) If node IsNot Nothing Then ' Retrieve the index of the selected node. ' To do that, count the number of preceding ' nodes by retrieving a reference to those nodes. returnValue = slidePart.Uri End If ' Only retrieve information about the first slide that matches the specified title. Exit For End If End If Next 'End Using Return returnValue End Function Public Function GetUriByTitle(ByVal fileName As String, ByVal slideTitle As String) As String ' Given a slide document and a slide title, retrieve the 0-based index of the ' first slide with a matching title. Return -1 if the title isn't found. ' Note: This code assumes that the first text found is the title. ' Also note that if the title contains more than one font, ' or is in any way anything other than plain text, PowerPoint ' breaks it up into multiple elements. This code won't find a match ' in that case. Dim returnValue As String = "" Dim documentPart As PackagePart = Nothing Using pptPackage As Package = Package.Open(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite) ' Get the main document part (presentation.xml). GetUriByTitle(pptPackage, slideTitle) End Using Return returnValue End Function End Class
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