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Warrick FitzGerald

Hi All,

We are writing a server component that creates thumbnail images (JPG\GIF)
of a given powerpoint presentation. I'm trying to find an SDK \ API of
some sort that would allow me to do this without calling the powerpoint
COM interfaces. Does anyone know of anything like this?

Thanks
Warrick
 
It sounds as though you basically want to convert PPT slides to images w/o
invoking PowerPoint. So far as I know, this isn't possible.
 
That should be fairly simple using VB and the API documented in the help at
MSDN.
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With PowerPoint present, sure. Without having PPT present or invoking it
though? If you know how, do tell! ;-)
 
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PowerPoint doesn't provide the functionality that you are looking.

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