python-pptx 0.3.0

Generate and manipulate Open XML PowerPoint (.pptx) files

python-pptx is a Python library for creating and updating PowerPoint (.pptx) files.

A typical use would be generating a customized PowerPoint presentation from database content, downloadble by clicking a link in a web application. Several developers have used it to automate production of presentation-ready engineering status reports based on information held in their work management system. It could also be used for making bulk updates to a library of presentations or simply to automate the production of a slide or two that would be tedious to get right by hand.

More information is available in the python-pptx documentation.

Browse examples with screenshots to get a quick idea what you can do with python-pptx.

Release History

0.3.0 (2013-12-12)

• Add read/write font color property supporting RGB, theme color, and inherit color types

• Add font typeface and italic support

• Add text frame margins and word-wrap

• Add support for external relationships, e.g. linked spreadsheet

• Add hyperlink support for text run in shape and table cell

• Add fill color and brightness for shape and table cell, fill can also be set to transparent (no fill)

• Add read/write position and size properties to shape and picture

• Replace PIL dependency with Pillow

• Restructure modules to better suit size of library

0.2.6 (2013-06-22)

• Add read/write access to core document properties

• Hotfix to accomodate connector shapes in _AutoShapeType

• Hotfix to allow customXml parts to load when present

0.2.5 (2013-06-11)

• Add paragraph alignment property (left, right, centered, etc.)

• Add vertical alignment within table cell (top, middle, bottom)

• Add table cell margin properties

• Add table boolean properties: first column (row header), first row (column headings), last row (for e.g. totals row), last column (for e.g. row totals), horizontal banding, and vertical banding.

• Add support for auto shape adjustment values, e.g. change radius of corner rounding on rounded rectangle, position of callout arrow, etc.

0.2.4 (2013-05-16)

• Add support for auto shapes (e.g. polygons, flowchart symbols, etc.)

0.2.3 (2013-05-05)

• Add support for table shapes

• Add indentation support to textbox shapes, enabling multi-level bullets on bullet slides.

0.2.2 (2013-03-25)

• Add support for opening and saving a presentation from/to a file-like object.

• Refactor XML handling to use lxml objectify

0.2.1 (2013-02-25)

• Add support for Python 2.6

• Add images from a stream (e.g. StringIO) in addition to a path, allowing images retrieved from a database or network resource to be inserted without saving first.

• Expand text methods to accept unicode and UTF-8 encoded 8-bit strings.

• Fix potential install bug triggered by importing __version__ from package __init__.py file.

0.2.6 (2013-02-10)

First non-alpha release with basic capabilities:

• open presentation/template or use built-in default template

• add slide

• set placeholder text (e.g. bullet slides)

• add picture

• add text box