I would like to transform a powerpoint presentation into a series of images. One for each slide so that they can be uploaded to the image gallery of the blog. Does anyone know of any libraries that can convert .ppt to images. Any language is fine if it can run on a * nix server, so there are no C # or .Net dependent libraries.
Even if it existed, and I would assume that it is, it cannot adequately handle the animation. I see more and more ppt presentations that make good use of animation to get their points. Many of these animations will overlap. How can I turn such a slide into one image? How would you prioritize which segments of an animated image should overlap with others? You can follow this topic: Convert ppt to png using Apache poi
It can help you with php. How to work with powerpoint in php?
This may work with python: fooobar.com/questions/105239 / ...
This is a good discussion of the problem you are facing: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html