'powerpoint' is a Ruby gem that can generate PowerPoint files(pptx).
'powerpoint' can be used from the command line or as part of a Ruby web framework. To install the gem using terminal, run the following command:
gem install powerpoint
To use it in Rails, add this line to your Gemfile:
gem "powerpoint"
'powerpoint' gem can generate a PowerPoint presentaion based on a standard template:
require 'powerpoint' @deck = Powerpoint::Presentation.new # Creating an introduction slide: title = 'Bicycle Of the Mind' subtitle = 'created by Steve Jobs' @deck.add_intro title, subtitle # Creating a text-only slide: # Title must be a string. # Content must be an array of strings that will be displayed as bullet items. title = 'Why Mac?' content = ['Its cool!', 'Its light.'] @deck.add_textual_slide title, content # Creating an image Slide: # It will contain a title as string. # and an embeded image title = 'Everyone loves Macs:' image_path = 'samples/images/sample_gif.gif' @deck.add_pictorial_slide title, image_path # Specifying coordinates and image size for an embeded image. # x and y values define the position of the image on the slide. # cx and cy define the width and height of the image. # x, y, cx, cy are in points. Each pixel is 12700 points. # coordinates parameter is optional. coords = {x: 124200, y: 3356451, cx: 2895600, cy: 1013460} @deck.add_pictorial_slide title, image_path, coords # Saving the pptx file to the current directory. @deck.save('test.pptx')
'powerpoint' gem has been tested with LibreOffice (4.2.1.1) and Apache OpenOffice (4.0.1) on Mac OS X Mavericks, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 on Windows 7 and Google Docs (latest version as of March 2014).
Contributions are welcomed. You can fork a repository, add your code changes to the forked branch, ensure all existing unit tests pass, create new unit tests cover your new changes and finally create a pull request.
After forking and then cloning the repository locally, install Bundler and then use it to install the development gem dependecies:
gem install bundler
bundle install
Once this is complete, you should be able to run the test suite:
rake
Please use the Issues page to report bugs or suggest new enhancements.
Powerpoint has been published under MIT License