Create Presentation

Create PowerPoint Presentation

To add a simple plain line to a selected slide of the presentation, please follow the steps below:

  1. Create an instance of Presentation class.
  2. Obtain the reference of a slide by using its Index.
  3. Add an AutoShape of LINE type using add_auto_shape method exposed by shapes object.
  4. Write the modified presentation as a PPTX file.

In the example given below, we have added a line to the first slide of the presentation.

import aspose.slides as slides

# Instantiate a Presentation object that represents a presentation file
with slides.Presentation() as presentation:
    slide = presentation.slides[0]
    slide.shapes.add_auto_shape(slides.ShapeType.LINE, 50, 150, 300, 0)
    presentation.save("NewPresentation_out.pptx", slides.export.SaveFormat.PPTX)
Open Presentation