Page Breaks in PPT slides

[Shoaib Jameel]

Hi all,
Is there any way, I can know the "page breaks" in powerpoint slides using
another programming language like C. What I want to do is:
1. Read a powerpoint file in C or C++ program.
2. Get to know where the first page ends, second page ends and so on.
3. Split the pages and make separate files of each of them with unique file
names.

Finally the result is, different powerpoint files with each slide on a
unique PPT file with unique file names like page1.ppt, page2.ppt and so on.

 

[Shoaib Jameel]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply Steve.
Yes you are right. I should not think it as Page Breaks but consider the
pages as slides. That is the better way to say it.

Are you looking to automate PowerPoint to do this or do you plan to read the
PowerPoint files directly?

I am infact, trying to read the PowerPoint file direclty into a C program
and then split the file into respective slides. I dont want Powerpoint to do
it for me. Please point me some documentation where I can get more
information about splitting PowerPoint presentation into respective slides.
The important thing is that I am doing it in C and on Linux.

What version of PPT/files do you plan to work with? 2007 or 97-2003?
I plan to work with PowerPoint 2003 and 2007.

I hope this helps.
One of the methods that I have tried is encode the PowerpOint presentation
using uuencode or Base64 encoding. Till date no success!