I want to split a powerpoint file, so that there is 1 file per slide. I want to do this for several files

Also I want to then take some of these files and create a new presentation

Can I do this?

 

Sure, you can. All these things can be done through creating empty presentation and cloning slides.
This short example will save all slides as separate ppt files:

for (int i = 1; i <= srcPres.Slides.LastSlidePosition; i++)
{
    // Create new presentation and clone slide
    Presentation newPres = new Presentation();
    srcPres.CloneSlide(srcPres.GetSlideByPosition(i), 2, newPres, new SortedList());
    // Delete first empty slide
    newPres.Slides.Remove(newPres.GetSlideByPosition(1));
    // Save created presentation with one slide to a new file
    newPres.Write("slide" + i + ".ppt");
}

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The above code written by Alexey is in C#, below is the equivalent code in Java.

 

JAVA

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//Read the source presentation

Presentation srcPres=new Presentation(new FileInputStream("c:\\source.ppt"));

int lastSlidePosition=srcPres.getSlides().getLastSlidePosition();

for (int i = 1; i <= lastSlidePosition; i++)

{

// Create new presentation and clone slide

Presentation newPres = new Presentation();

//Make slide size equal in both presentation

newPres.setSlideSize(srcPres.getSlideSize());

// Clone the slide from source into new presentation

Slide srcSld=srcPres.getSlideByPosition(i);

srcPres.cloneSlide(srcSld, 2, newPres, new TreeMap());

// Delete first empty slide

newPres.getSlides().remove(newPres.getSlideByPosition(1));

// Save created presentation with one slide to a new file

newPres.write(new FileOutputStream("c:\\slide" + i + ".ppt"));

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Many Thanks and Kind Regards,

Shakeel Faiz
Support Engineer
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