Presentation Viewer

Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET is used to create presentation files with slides. These slides can be viewed by opening presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, for example. However, sometimes developers may need to view slides as images in their preferred image viewer or create their own presentation viewer. In such cases, Aspose.Slides allows you to export an individual slide as an image. This article describes how to do it.

Generate an SVG Image from a Slide

To generate an SVG image from a presentation slide with Aspose.Slides, please follow the steps below:

1. Create an instance of the Presentation class.
2. Get the slide reference by its index.
3. Open a file stream.
4. Save the slide as an SVG image to the file stream.

import aspose.slides as slides

slide_index = 0

with slides.Presentation("sample.pptx") as presentation:
    slide = presentation.slides[slide_index]

    with open("output.svg", "wb") as svg_stream:
        slide.write_as_svg(svg_stream)

Create a Slide Thumbnail Image

Aspose.Slides helps you generate thumbnail images of slides. To generate a thumbnail of a slide using Aspose.Slides, please follow the steps below:

1. Create an instance of the Presentation class.
2. Get the slide reference by its index.
3. Get the thumbnail image of the referenced slide at a defined scale.
4. Save the thumbnail image in any desired image format.

import aspose.slides as slides

slide_index = 0
scale_x = 1
scale_y = scale_x

with slides.Presentation("sample.pptx") as presentation:
    slide = presentation.slides[slide_index]

    with slide.get_image(scale_x, scale_y) as image:
        image.save("output.jpg", slides.ImageFormat.JPEG)

Create a Slide Thumbnail with User Defined Dimensions

To create a slide thumbnail image with user defined dimensions, please follow the steps below:

1. Create an instance of the Presentation class.
2. Get the slide reference by its index.
3. Get the thumbnail image of the referenced slide with the defined dimensions.
4. Save the thumbnail image in any desired image format.

import aspose.slides as slides
import aspose.pydrawing as pydrawing

slide_index = 0
slide_size = pydrawing.Size(1200, 800)

with slides.Presentation("sample.pptx") as presentation:
    slide = presentation.slides[slide_index]

    with slide.get_image(slide_size) as image:
        image.save("output.jpg", slides.ImageFormat.JPEG)

Create a Slide Thumbnail with Speaker Notes

To generate the thumbnail of a slide with speaker notes using Aspose.Slides, please follow the steps below:

1. Create an instance of the RenderingOptions class.
2. Use the RenderingOptions.slides_layout_options property to set the position of speaker notes.
3. Create an instance of the Presentation class.
4. Get the slide reference by its index.
5. Get the thumbnail image of the referenced slide with the rendering options.
6. Save the thumbnail image in any desired image format.

slide_index = 0

layout_options = slides.export.NotesCommentsLayoutingOptions()
layout_options.notes_position = slides.export.NotesPositions.BOTTOM_TRUNCATED

rendering_options = slides.export.RenderingOptions()
rendering_options.slides_layout_options = layout_options

with slides.Presentation("sample.pptx") as presentation:
    slide = presentation.slides[slide_index]

    with slide.get_image(rendering_options) as image:
        image.save("output.png", slides.ImageFormat.PNG)

Live Example

You can try Aspose.Slides Viewer free app to see what you can implement with Aspose.Slides API: