I’m designing a webapp for my uni and I need to be able to read some powerpoint files … Does anyone know what’s the best way to access powerpoint files and read the data in a web friendly way ?
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I’m designing a webapp for my uni and I need to be able to read some powerpoint files … Does anyone know what’s the best way to access powerpoint files and read the data in a web friendly way ?
There’s no “best” answer for this, the older PowerPoint formats are proprietary, although are documented here: Microsoft’s Site.
I guess your only way would be to write a server-side script to open the files and try and grab the bits you want. There is also a Java library to access PowerPoint files called POI.
In any case, there’s no “easy” solution for this. Google will probably have their own implementation of a PowerPoint “reader”, then convert the files in the background to their own format after you upload them. In a similar vein, your best bet is probably going to be to do something similar, upload the files, process them into a more sensible format yourself, then emit them on the web page.