Manage Presentation Notes in Python

Overview

Aspose.Slides supports removing notes slides from a presentation. In this topic, we will introduce this feature, including how to remove notes and how to apply a style to notes slides in a presentation. Aspose.Slides allows you to remove notes from any slide and also apply styling to existing notes. Developers can remove notes in the following ways:

• Remove notes from a specific slide in a presentation.
• Remove notes from all slides in a presentation.

Remove Notes from Slide

Notes of some specific slide could be removed as shown in the example below:

import aspose.slides as slides

# Instantiate a Presentation object that represents a presentation file 
with slides.Presentation(path + "AccessSlides.pptx") as presentation:
    # Removing notes of first slide
    mgr = presentation.slides[0].notes_slide_manager
    mgr.remove_notes_slide()

    # save presentation to disk
    presentation.save("RemoveNotesAtSpecificSlide_out.pptx", slides.export.SaveFormat.PPTX)

Remove Notes from All Slides

Notes of all the slides of a presentation could be removed as shown in the example below:

import aspose.slides as slides

# Instantiate a Presentation object that represents a presentation file 
with slides.Presentation(path + "AccessSlides.pptx") as presentation:
    # Removing notes of all slides
    for i in range(len(presentation.slides)):
        mgr = presentation.slides[i].notes_slide_manager
        mgr.remove_notes_slide()
    # save presentation to disk
    presentation.save("RemoveNotesFromAllSlides_out.pptx", slides.export.SaveFormat.PPTX)

Add NotesStyle

The notes_style property has been added to the MasterNotesSlide class. This property specifies the style of a notes text.  The implementation is demonstrated in the example below.

import aspose.slides as slides

# Instantiate Presentation class that represents the presentation file
with slides.Presentation(path + "AccessSlides.pptx") as presentation:
    notesMaster = presentation.master_notes_slide_manager.master_notes_slide
    if notesMaster != None:
        # Get MasterNotesSlide text style
        notesStyle = notesMaster.notes_style

        #Set symbol bullet for the first level paragraphs
        paragraphFormat = notesStyle.get_level(0)
        paragraphFormat.bullet.type = slides.BulletType.SYMBOL

    # save the PPTX file to the Disk
    presentation.save("AddNotesSlideWithNotesStyle_out.pptx", slides.export.SaveFormat.PPTX)

FAQ

Which API entity provides access to the notes of a specific slide?

Notes are accessed through the slide’s notes manager: the slide has a NotesSlideManager and a property that returns the notes object, or None if there are no notes.

Are there differences in notes support across the PowerPoint versions the library works with?

The library targets a broad range of Microsoft PowerPoint formats (97–newer) and ODP; notes are supported within these formats without depending on an installed copy of PowerPoint.