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This gist provides a way to merge different PowerPoint presentations into one, by appending the slides in them to the end of the first presentation of the list
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from pptx import Presentation | |
import os | |
import copy | |
def move_slide(copyFromPres: Presentation, slideIndex: int, pasteIntoPres: Presentation): | |
"""Takes two Presentation objs and an index, copies the slide with index slideIndex from copyFromPres to | |
pasteIntoPres. | |
returns the slide if everything went well, but the first presentation will contain all the other one's slides | |
Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/73954830/12380052 from which I copied the majority of this | |
""" | |
# modeled on https://stackoverflow.com/a/56074651/20159015 | |
# and https://stackoverflow.com/a/62921848/20159015 | |
# take the slide at index slideIndex | |
slide_to_copy = copyFromPres.slides[slideIndex] | |
# Selecting the layout: it should and must be only one, so we take the 1st | |
slide_layout = pasteIntoPres.slide_layouts[0] | |
# names of other layouts can be found here under step 3: | |
# https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-change-slide-layout-in-ms-powerpoint/ | |
# The layout we're using has an empty title with a placeholder like "Click to add title" | |
# create now slide with that layout, to copy contents to | |
new_slide = pasteIntoPres.slides.add_slide(slide_layout) | |
# create dict for all the images it could find | |
imgDict = {} # entries will be generated if the pptx has images | |
# variables for future use with hyperlinks | |
haddress = None | |
shape_w_hyperlink_id = None | |
for shp in slide_to_copy.shapes: | |
# Searching for images to not get a corrupt file in the end | |
if 'Picture' in shp.name: | |
# save image | |
with open(shp.name + '.jpg', 'wb') as f: | |
# Saving it temporarily | |
f.write(shp.image.blob) | |
# add image to dict | |
imgDict[shp.name + '.jpg'] = [shp.left, shp.top, shp.width, shp.height] | |
else: | |
# create copy of elem | |
el = shp.element | |
text_frame = shp.text_frame | |
p = text_frame.paragraphs[0] | |
if p.runs: # if this has ".runs" it's probably a hyperlink object | |
# This | |
r = p.runs[0] | |
# let's save the ID of the shape with a hyperlink | |
shape_w_hyperlink_id = shp.shape_id | |
# ... and the hyperlink destination URI | |
haddress = r.hyperlink.address | |
newel = copy.deepcopy(el) | |
# add elem to shape tree | |
new_slide.shapes._spTree.insert_element_before(newel, 'p:extLst') | |
# If before we found a hyperlink... | |
if haddress: | |
for shape in new_slide.shapes: | |
# let's check if we are in the shape with hyperlink | |
if shape.shape_id == shape_w_hyperlink_id: | |
# we are on the shape with hyperlink, let's put it back where it belongs | |
# Not doing hyperlink.address=haddress because of the getter going on keyerror | |
shape.text_frame.paragraphs[0].runs[0].hyperlink._add_hlinkClick(haddress) | |
# the following is from the guy on Stackoverflow: | |
# things added first will be covered by things added last | |
# => since I want pictures to be in foreground, I will add them after others elements | |
# you can change this if you want to add pictures | |
for k, v in imgDict.items(): | |
new_slide.shapes.add_picture(k, v[0], v[1], v[2], v[3]) # Adding the picture again | |
os.remove(k) # Removing the temp file it created | |
try: | |
new_slide.shapes.title.text = ' ' # todo it breaks if we delete this title box. We should find a way to delete it... | |
except Exception as e: | |
print("Warning, new_slide.shapes.title.text failed: %s" % e) | |
return new_slide # this returns the single slide so you can instantly work with it if you need to | |
def merge_presentations_list(paths: list, final_name: str = None): | |
"""Merge manyu files into one""" | |
outputPres = Presentation(paths[0]) | |
for path in paths[1:]: | |
templatePres = Presentation(path) | |
for i in range(len(templatePres.slides)): # We iterate over all the slides | |
move_slide(templatePres, i, outputPres) | |
if final_name: | |
outputPres.save(final_name) | |
return outputPres | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
presentation_list = [ | |
'pres1.pptx', | |
'pres2.pptx', | |
'with_link.pptx', | |
] | |
merge_presentations_list(presentation_list, 'merged_presentations.pptx') |
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it does not work on my computer. which version of
python-pptx
that work for your code?