Re: Powerpoint presentations?!?

> I've been asked to write code that will dynamically generate Microsoft > Powerpoint presentations. It has to assemble collections of pages, and > possibly substitute a word or phrase here and there (mailmerge style). > > There doesn't seem to be a published document describing Powerpoint file > format or capabilities. The only generation tool I can find is a > sourceforge.net project that has no files. The only conversion tools I > can find convert FROM powerpoint, not TO it. a French company www.arpege.tm.fr has made a software called Soprano which uses this scenario : - you create powerpoint files with "variables" embedded into something like <%myvariable1%> <%mypicture%> etc - their program replace the variables with data from a database. (It is used to animate elections shows) So it is possible, but I don't know how they did that. I don't think they will give you the tip.