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Generate and manipulate Open XML PowerPoint (.pptx) files

Project description

python-pptx is a Python library for creating and updating PowerPoint (.pptx) files.

A typical use would be generating a customized PowerPoint presentation from database content, downloadble by clicking a link in a web application. Several developers have used it to automate production of presentation-ready engineering status reports based on information held in their work management system. It could also be used for making bulk updates to a library of presentations or simply to automate the production of a slide or two that would be tedious to get right by hand.

More information is available in the python-pptx documentation.

Browse examples with screenshots to get a quick idea what you can do with python-pptx.

Release History

0.3.0 (2013-12-12)

  • Add read/write font color property supporting RGB, theme color, and inherit color types

  • Add font typeface and italic support

  • Add text frame margins and word-wrap

  • Add support for external relationships, e.g. linked spreadsheet

  • Add hyperlink support for text run in shape and table cell

  • Add fill color and brightness for shape and table cell, fill can also be set to transparent (no fill)

  • Add read/write position and size properties to shape and picture

  • Replace PIL dependency with Pillow

  • Restructure modules to better suit size of library

0.2.6 (2013-06-22)

  • Add read/write access to core document properties

  • Hotfix to accomodate connector shapes in _AutoShapeType

  • Hotfix to allow customXml parts to load when present

0.2.5 (2013-06-11)

  • Add paragraph alignment property (left, right, centered, etc.)

  • Add vertical alignment within table cell (top, middle, bottom)

  • Add table cell margin properties

  • Add table boolean properties: first column (row header), first row (column headings), last row (for e.g. totals row), last column (for e.g. row totals), horizontal banding, and vertical banding.

  • Add support for auto shape adjustment values, e.g. change radius of corner rounding on rounded rectangle, position of callout arrow, etc.

0.2.4 (2013-05-16)

  • Add support for auto shapes (e.g. polygons, flowchart symbols, etc.)

0.2.3 (2013-05-05)

  • Add support for table shapes

  • Add indentation support to textbox shapes, enabling multi-level bullets on bullet slides.

0.2.2 (2013-03-25)

  • Add support for opening and saving a presentation from/to a file-like object.

  • Refactor XML handling to use lxml objectify

0.2.1 (2013-02-25)

  • Add support for Python 2.6

  • Add images from a stream (e.g. StringIO) in addition to a path, allowing images retrieved from a database or network resource to be inserted without saving first.

  • Expand text methods to accept unicode and UTF-8 encoded 8-bit strings.

  • Fix potential install bug triggered by importing __version__ from package __init__.py file.

0.2.6 (2013-02-10)

First non-alpha release with basic capabilities:

  • open presentation/template or use built-in default template

  • add slide

  • set placeholder text (e.g. bullet slides)

  • add picture

  • add text box

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