Aspose.Slides for JasperReports

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Start here: install Aspose.Slides for JasperReports, export a first report to PowerPoint, and find the guides for export, JasperReports Server integration and support.

Aspose.Slides for JasperReports adds PowerPoint exporters to JasperReports Library and JasperReports Server, so that Java applications and report servers can save filled reports as presentations without Microsoft PowerPoint.

It exports a filled report to PPT and PPTX, one slide per report page, and also to PDF and HTML.

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Your first export

These steps compile a one-line report, fill it, and export it to PPTX with JasperReports 6.16.0 from Maven Central. You need JDK 11 or later and Apache Maven.

Download the ZIP from the download page and unpack it. Its lib folder has one subfolder per range of JasperReports versions, and each holds the jar for that range. For JasperReports 6.16.0, copy lib/JasperReports 6.5.0 - 6.16.0 (JDK 1.6)/aspose.slides.jasperreports.library-26.6.jar into an empty project folder.
The jar comes in the ZIP rather than from a Maven repository, so install it into your local Maven repository. Run this command in the project folder:

mvn install:install-file "-Dfile=aspose.slides.jasperreports.library-26.6.jar" "-DgroupId=com.aspose" "-DartifactId=aspose-slides-jasperreports" "-Dversion=26.6" "-Dpackaging=jar"

Save this pom.xml in the project folder. It adds JasperReports 6.16.0 and the jar you installed, and names the class to run. JasperReports 6.16.0 declares a patched iText build that is not on Maven Central, so the file excludes it; the Aspose exporters do not need it.

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>hello-jasper-export</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>

    <properties>
        <maven.compiler.release>11</maven.compiler.release>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <exec.mainClass>HelloExport</exec.mainClass>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.sf.jasperreports</groupId>
            <artifactId>jasperreports</artifactId>
            <version>6.16.0</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
                    <artifactId>itext</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.aspose</groupId>
            <artifactId>aspose-slides-jasperreports</artifactId>
            <version>26.6</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.15.0</version>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

Save this report design as hello.jrxml in the project folder. It prints one line of text in the title band:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd"
        name="Hello" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555"
        leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20">
    <title>
        <band height="50">
            <staticText>
                <reportElement x="0" y="0" width="555" height="40"/>
                <textElement>
                    <font size="24"/>
                </textElement>
                <text><![CDATA[Hello from JasperReports!]]></text>
            </staticText>
        </band>
    </title>
</jasperReport>

Save this code as src/main/java/HelloExport.java. It compiles the design, fills it with one empty record, and exports the result with ASPptxExporter:

import java.util.HashMap;

import com.aspose.slides.jasperreports.ASPptxExporter;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JREmptyDataSource;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRExporterParameter;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperCompileManager;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperPrint;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperReport;

public class HelloExport {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        // Compile the report design and fill it with one empty record.
        JasperReport report = JasperCompileManager.compileReport("hello.jrxml");
        JasperPrint jasperPrint = JasperFillManager.fillReport(report, new HashMap<String, Object>(), new JREmptyDataSource());

        // Export the filled report to PPTX.
        ASPptxExporter exporter = new ASPptxExporter();
        exporter.setParameter(JRExporterParameter.JASPER_PRINT, jasperPrint);
        exporter.setParameter(JRExporterParameter.OUTPUT_FILE_NAME, "hello.pptx");
        exporter.exportReport();
    }
}

Run this command in the project folder:

mvn compile exec:java

The program saves hello.pptx in the project folder, with one slide that holds the report’s text. The compiler notes that the code uses a deprecated API: the exporters take their input and output through JRExporterParameter, and they do not accept the newer setExporterInput and setExporterOutput configuration. On Linux, fontconfig and at least one font must be installed, or filling the report fails. Without a license, each slide carries an evaluation watermark at its center — see Licensing. To export to PPT, PDF or HTML, see PPT, PPTX, PDF and HTML Export.

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