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I would like to convert a powerpoint presentation into a series of images. One per slide specifically so they can be uploaded as an image gallery to a blog. Does anyone know of any libraries that can convert a .ppt into images. Any language is fine as long as it can run on a *nix server, so no C# or .Net dependent libraries.

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Even if one existed, and I would guess one does, it can't address animations in a meaningful way. I see more and more ppt presentations making good use of animations to get their points across. Many of these animations will overlap one another. How could such a slide be turned into a single image? How would you prioritize which animated image segments should overlap the others? You may want to keep an eye on this thread: Converting ppt to png using Apache poi

This might get you a solution via php How to work with powerpoint in php?

This might work with python: https://stackoverflow.com/q/4995877/657003

This is a good discussion of the problem you face: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html

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  • Awesome answers I will check them all out. As for animations, the application I am developing will not utilize animations at this point so the slides designed for it will not use ppt animations. So, it's a non issue – austinbv Mar 22 '11 at 19:05