No Microsoft PowerPoint Automation

Aspose.Slides for .NET is a powerful and flexible component that allows developers to create and manage PowerPoint presentations without requiring Microsoft PowerPoint or Microsoft Office to be installed on the system.

In short, Aspose.Slides for .NET is a better alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint Automation in terms of security, stability, scalability, speed, price and features.

Advanced Features

Aspose.Slides for .NET incorporates a number of advanced features, these make it convenient for developers to perform advanced and complicated tasks such as exporting presentations, rendering slides, exporting slides to the SVG format and presentation printing. Aspose.Slides for .NET includes many features, some of which are listed below:

- Save and open PowerPoint files to and from streams
- Send output to a client browser
- Import other MS Office file formats as OLE Objects
- Export presentations to PDF, TIFF and XPS Formats
- Export slides to SVG
- Render slides to images
- Print MS PowerPoint presentations

Platform Independence

Aspose.Slides for .NET covers the most popular development environments and deployment platforms. You can confidently use Aspose.Slides for .NET to build any type of 32-bit or 64-bit .NET application including ASP.NET, Web Services and WinForms.

Aspose.Slides for .NET is easy to deploy because it is just a class library without any dependencies (except on the .NET Framework itself).

Support for many Different File Formats

Using Aspose.Slides for .NET, developers can easily open and save a large number of file formats. These include PowerPoint Presentation 97 – 2003 (PPT), PowerPoint Template 97 – 2003 (POT), PowerPoint SlideShow 97 – 2003, PowerPoint Presentation 2007 (PPTX), PowerPoint Template 2007 (POTX) and PowerPoint SlideShow 2007 (PPSX).

Using Aspose.Slides for .NET, you can also lock Presentation files to protect the contents from changing, this is a unique feature of Aspose.Slides for .NET.

It is also possible to convert presentation documents into PDF, TIFF and XPS formats directly using the component.

Support for Office Open XML

Office OpenXML (OOXML) is the XML-based format that was introduced into Microsoft Office 2007.

PresentationML (OOXML, PPTX) is the markup language used by Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to store its documents. Aspose.Slides for .NET extensively supports creating, reading, manipulating and writing PresentationML documents.

This is possible because Aspose.Slides for .NET was designed with the aim to comprehensively handle presentation documents and adding extra support for PresentationML was simple due to the extensible nature of our core product engine.

Extended Slide Features

With Aspose.Slides for .NET you can work with directly with many features of PowerPoint Slides. The following is a selection of the included features:

- Create new slides from scratch and add them to presentations
- Access any slide through its position in the presentation
- Copy or clone slides to the same or another presentation
- Edit and delete existing slides
- Automatically copying master slides together with the child slide
- Support for previewing slides
- Get or set the name of a slide
- Render slides to images
- Export slides to SVG
- Support for presentations with many master slides
- Fill slide background with any supported style
- Add new or modify existing notes for a slide
- Manage slideShow transitions

Slide Elements Manipulation

In Aspose.Slides for .NET, each and every element is identified as a Shape Object, including Text Box, Table, Rectangle, Ellipse, Poly Line, Auto Shape, Picture Frame, Audio Frame, Video Frame and OLE Object Frames.

Aspose.Slides for .NET provides a rich set of API classes to comprehensively manipulate each of these elements. For example, you can apply animations to shapes, format these shapes and apply or remove protection on individual shapes