Controlling PowerPoint Conversion in Document Conversion Service
PEERNET Document Conversion Service is an off the shelf high volume solution for converting documents to high quality TIFF, JPEG, Adobe PDF, and other image formats. The Peernet Document Conversion Service Product is a very flexible, easy to navigate and robust solution for converting your files.
This article continues a series of articles highlighting the individual conversion options of each of the converters included with Document Conversion Service. A list of the previously posted articles is available at the end of this article.
Controlling the PowerPoint Converter
The PowerPoint converter includes options to control the orientation of the slides and notes in the presentation and to configure the size of the slides.
You can also control if the slides or both slides and notes in the presentation, are converted. Showing hidden slides and comments as well as how the slides and notes are displayed on each page are some of the other options available.
The tables below show a few of the available for PowerPoint conversion. A complete list of available settings can be found here.
Printing Options
| Setting Name | Values |
| Microsoft.PowerPoint.PrintOptions.FrameSlides | True False |
| Microsoft.PowerPoint.PrintOptions.FitToPage | True False |
| Microsoft.PowerPoint.PrintOptions.OutputType | PrintOutputSlides PrintOutputNotesPages PrintOutputOutline PrintOutputBuildSlides PrintOutputOneSlideHandouts PrintOutputTwoSlideHandouts PrintOutputThreeSlideHandouts PrintOutputFourSlideHandouts PrintOutputSixSlideHandouts PrintOutputNineSlideHandouts |
| Microsoft.PowerPoint.PrintOptions.PrintColorType | PrintColor PrintBlackAndWhite PrintPureBlackAndWhite |
| Microsoft.PowerPoint.PrintOptions.PrintComments | True False |
| Microsoft.PowerPoint.PrintOptions.PrintHiddenSlides | True False |
Page Setup Options
| Setting Name | Values |
| Microsoft.PowerPoint.PageSetup.SlideOrientation | OrientationHorizontal OrientationVertical OrientationMixed |
| Microsoft.PowerPoint.PageSetup.SlideSize | SlideSizeOnScreen SlideSizeLetterPaper SlideSizeA4Paper SlideSize35MM SlideSizeOverhead SlideSizeBanner SlideSizeCustom SlideSizeLedgerPaper SlideSizeA3Paper SlideSizeB4ISOPaper SlideSizeB5ISOPaper SlideSizeB4JISPaper SlideSizeB5JISPaper SlideSizeHagakiCard |
Telling Document Conversion Service about the Setting
How this setting is passed to Document Conversion Service depends on how you are using the service and its included conversion tools.
When using the settings below, PowerPoint presentations will be converted with:
- all slides, including hidden slides, fit to a Letter-sized page
- a thin frame around the border of each slide
- notes and comments included with the slides
For the command line tools and the PEERNET.ConvertUtility .NET library, the conversion settings are normally passed into the commands by supplying the name of a conversion profile file. This file is a simple XML file stored on your computer.
Sample Profile – PowerPoint with Notes, Comments and Hidden Slides.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Profile Type="0"
DisplayName="TIFF 200dpi Optimized Color"
Description ="PowerPoint with Notes, Comments and Hidden Slides">
<Settings>
<!--PowerPoint Specific options -->
<add Name="Microsoft.PowerPoint.PageSetup.SlideSize" Value="SlideSizeLetterPaper"/>
<add Name="Microsoft.PowerPoint.PrintOptions.FitToPage" Value="True"/>
<add Name="Microsoft.PowerPoint.PrintOptions.FrameSlides" Value="True"/>
<add Name="Microsoft.PowerPoint.PrintOptions.PrintComments" Value="True"/>
<add Name="Microsoft.PowerPoint.PrintOptions.OutputType"
Value="PrintOutputNotesPages"/>
<!-- Output file options -->
<add Name="Devmode settings;Resolution" Value="200"/>
<add Name="Save;Output File Format" Value="TIFF Multipaged"/>
<add Name="Save;Append" Value="0"/>
<add Name="Save;Color reduction" Value="Optimal"/>
<add Name="Save;Dithering method" Value="Halftone"/>
<!-- TIFF Compression Options -->
<add Name="TIFF File Format;BW compression" Value="Group4"/>
<add Name="TIFF File Format;Color compression" Value="LZW RGB"/>
<add Name="TIFF File Format;Indexed compression" Value="LZW"/>
<add Name="TIFF File Format;Greyscale compression" Value="LZW"/>
<add Name="JPEG File Format;Color compression" Value="Medium Quality"/>
<add Name="JPEG File Format;Greyscale compression" Value="High Quality"/>
<add Name="Image Options;Fax" Value="0"/>
</Settings>
</Profile>If you are using the Watch Folder service included with Document Conversion Service, the collection of settings is passed as part of the definition for each input folder and is used for every file dropped into that folder.
By adding the following highlighted lines into the settings for the desired input folder, any Word documents dropped into that folder will use these settings when they are converted.
Sample Watch Folder Configuration – PowerPoint with Notes, Comments and Hidden Slides
<WatchFolder Name="PowerPoint with Notes, Comments and Hidden Slides">
<Settings>
<!-- Folder options -->
<add Name="InputFolder" Value="C:PEERNETWatchFolderInput"/>
<add Name="SearchFilter" Value="*.*"/>
<add Name="IncludeSubFolders" Value="True"/>
<add Name="DeleteInputSubFolders" Value="True"/>
<add Name="StagingFolder" Value="C:PEERNETWatchFolderStaging"/>
<add Name="WorkingFolder" Value="C:PEERNET WatchFolderWorking"/>
<add Name="FailedFolder" Value="C:PEERNETWatchFolderFailed"/>
<add Name="CompletedFolder" Value="C:PEERNETWatchFolderCompleted"/>
<add Name="OutputFolder" Value="C:PEERNETWatchFolderOutput"/>
<add Name="PollingInterval" Value="15000"/>
<add Name="DCOMComputerName" Value="localhost"/>
<add Name="TestMode" Value="false"/>
<add Name="NormalizeFilenames" Value="false"/>
<!--PowerPoint Specific options -->
<add Name="Microsoft.PowerPoint.PageSetup.SlideSize" Value="SlideSizeLetterPaper"/>
<add Name="Microsoft.PowerPoint.PrintOptions.FitToPage" Value="True"/>
<add Name="Microsoft.PowerPoint.PrintOptions.FrameSlides" Value="True"/>
<add Name="Microsoft.PowerPoint.PrintOptions.PrintComments" Value="True"/>
<add Name="Microsoft.PowerPoint.PrintOptions.OutputType"
Value="PrintOutputNotesPages"/>
<!-- Output file options -->
<add Name="Devmode settings;Resolution" Value="300"/>
<add Name="Save;Output File Format" Value="TIFF Multipaged"/>
<add Name="Save;Append" Value="0"/>
<add Name="Save;Color reduction" Value="Optimal"/>
<add Name="Save;Dithering method" Value="Halftone"/>
<add Name="Save;Remove filename extension" Value="0" />
<add Name="TIFF File Format;BW compression" Value="Group4"/>
<add Name="TIFF File Format;Color compression" Value="LZW RGB"/>
<add Name="TIFF File Format;Indexed compression" Value="LZW"/>
<add Name="TIFF File Format;Greyscale compression" Value="LZW"/>
<add Name="JPEG File Format;Color compression" Value="Medium Quality"/>
<add Name="JPEG File Format;Greyscale compression" Value="High Quality"/>
<add Name="Image Options;Fill order" Value="MSB2LSB"/>
<add Name="Image Options;Fax" Value="0"/>
<add Name="Image Options;Fax Profile" Value="0"/>
<add Name="Image Options;Fax Resolution" Value="4"/>
<add Name="Processing;Rotate landscape" Value="0"/>
</Settings>
</WatchFolder> Previous article in this series:
Controlling Excel Conversion in Document Conversion Service
Controlling Word Conversion in Document Conversion Service
Controlling PDF Conversion in Document Conversion Service
You can read more about conversion settings in the previous blog entry Setting Conversion Settings in Document Conversion Service.
