Question

I have a PDF file that I want to convert to PowerPoint using .NET. What is the best tool for the job? The most important part of the conversion is that it looks as similar to the source as possible. Well, that and it can be done programmaticly.

Answer 1

You have a few options:

• Keep generating images, but using a more detailed representation, like EMF format, as Office seems to like it; I used to save a worksheet image as EMF, to compress it as EMZ and paste it inside a Word document using large DPI size, with (almost) no loss.
• To use a commercial component to convert from PDF to HTML, like Aspose.Recognition for .NET
• Since you’re creating your PDF dynamically, you can also to create your PPT using Open XML API. If you don’t have Office 2007 installed into your client machines, you’ll need to download Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats