Perl REST API to Process Presentation in Cloud

This repository contains Aspose.Slides Cloud SDK for Perl source code. This SDK allows you to process & manipulate PPT, PPTX, ODP, OTP using Aspose.slides Cloud REST APIs in your Perl applications.

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Presentation Processing Features

• Fetch presentation images in any of the supported file formats.
• Copy the layout side or clone the master slide from the source presentation.
• Process slides shapes, slides notes, placeholders, colors & font theme info.
• Programmatically create a presentation from HTML & export it to various formats.
• Merge multiple presentations or split the single presentation into multiple ones.
• Extract and replace text from a specific slide or an entire presentation.

Read & Write Presentation Formats

Microsoft PowerPoint: PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX, PPTM, PPSM, POTX, POTM OpenOffice: ODP, OTP, FODP Other: PDF, PDF/A

Save Presentation As

Fixed Layout: XPS Images: JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, SVG Web: HTML/HTML5 Other: MPEG4, SWF (export whole presentations)

Enhancements in Version 22.7

• Added Html, Pdf, Xps, Pptx, Odp, Otp, Ppt, Pps, Ppsx, Pptm, Ppsm, Potx, Pot, Potm, Svg, Fodp, Xaml, Html5 to the list of allowed values for SlideExportFormat enum. You can now export slide notes to those formats.
• Added Html5 to the list of allowed values for SlideExportFormat enum. You can now export individual slides to HTML5.
• Added Url to the list of allowed values for PresentationToMerge.SourceEnum enum. You can now merge presentations from external URLs.
• New DeleteUnusedMasterSlides and DeleteUnusedMasterSlidesOnline methods.
• New SetChartAxis, SetChartLegend, SetChartWall methods allow to moduly chart elements more conveniently.
• UpdateChartSeriesGroup method was renamed to SetChartSeriesGroup.

Enhancements in Version 22.6

• Added ned GetSubshapeParagraphEffective, GetParagraphEffective and GetSubshapePortionEffective, GetPortionEffective methods to retrieve actual format values for paragraphs and portions, whether they are inherited from parent entities or not.
• Password parameter is now optional for GetProtectionProperties method. So, you don't need to specify the password to check whether a presentation has a password.
• Added new ChartSeriesGroup class and SeriesGroups property to Chart class to enable managing chart series groups. Added new UpdateChartSeriesGroup method.
• Added HasRoundedCorners property to Chart class.
• Added InvertIfNegative property to OneValueChartDataPoint class.
• Changed FormatScheme class to return actual format values instead of resource links.

Enhancements in Version 22.5

• Added Paragraphs property to SmartArtNode class to enable getting and setting text for SmartArt nodes.
• Added ImageTransformList property to PictureFill class to enable setting image transform effects. Added ImageTransformEffect class and subclasses for different kind of of effects.
• Added PictureFillFormat property to VideoFrame class to enable setting poster image for video frames.
• Added SlideIndex and ShapeIndex properties to ResourceUri class to simplify retrieveing slide & shape indexes for resources.
• Removed redundant BoxAndWhiskersSeries, WaterfallSeries and WaterfallChartDataPoint classes.

Enhancements in Version 22.4

• Added TransitionType and SlidesTransitionDuration properties to VideoExportOptions class to enable creation videos with transitions.
• Added DefaultPortionFormat property to Paragraph class. Added new PortionFormat class.
• Added EmbeddedFileBase64Data and a number of other properties to OleObjectFrame class to enable creation of OLE Object frames.
• Added AccessPermissions class to support access permissions for PDF export.
• Added PictureFillformat property to AudioFrame class.
• Added RowIndex and ColumnIndex properties to TableCell class.
• Moved Width and Height properties from ExportOptions base class to the new ImageExportOptionsBase class. This is a superclass for ImageExportOptions, GifExportOptions and TiffExportOptions classes.
• Removed redundant Shapes property from ShapeBase class. It is only left for GroupShape class.

Enhancements in Version 22.3

• Added ModernSlideComment class to support modern comments. Also added SlideCommentBase as base class for comments.
• Added optional shapeIndex parameter to CreateComment and CreateCommentOnline methods.
• Added GetParagraphRectangle, GetPortionRectangle method and new TextBounds class to get paragraph or portion bounds.
• Added optional shapeType parameter for GetShapes method. You can now get list of shapes of a particular type (e.g. charts or tables).
• Added FontFallbackRules class and FontFallbackRules property to ExportOptions class.
• Added LatinFont, EastAsianFont and ComplexScriptFont properties to Portion class to enable getting and seting portion font name.
• Added ChartLinesFormat class; added MajorGridLinesFormat and MinorGridLinesFormat properties to Axis class.
• Added HideLegend boolean property to Legend class.

Enhancements in Version 22.2

• Added Mpeg4 to the list of allowed values for ExportFormat type. You can now convert presentations to video.
• New HighlightShapeText and HighlightShapeRegex methods.
• New DeleteUnusedLayoutSlides and DeleteUnusedLayoutSlides methods.
• New ZoomFrame and ZoomObject classes with a number of subclasses.
• Added TextFrameFormat property to Shape class to support WordArt.
• Added XYSeries class as a supercalss for ScatterSeries and BubbleSeries methods.
• Added None to the list of allowed values for TimeUnitType enum type.
• Level property of Category class is deprecated and will be removed after v22.4.

Enhancements in Version 22.1

• New MathParagraph property of Portion class allows to get and set math formulas. A set of MathElement subclasses allows to specify complex mathematical expressions.
• New DownloadPortionAsMathMl and SavePortionAsMathMl methods allow to export math formulas to MathML format.
• New HyperlinkClick and HyperlinkMouseOver methods of ShapeBase and Portion classes enable creation and manipulating hyperlinks for shapes and portions.
• New methods GetShapeGeometryPath and SetShapeGeometryPath can be used to get or set geometry paths for shapes. You can use lines, arcs and curves to specify custom shape boundaries.
• New AlignSubshapes method enables aligning shapes within a shape group.
• New PlayAcrossSlides and RewindAudio properties are added to AudioFrame class.
• Added InClickSequence to the list of allowable values for AudioPlayModePreset and AudioPlayModePreset enum types.

Licensing

All Aspose.Slides Cloud SDKs are licensed under MIT License.

How to use the SDK?

The complete source code is available in this repository folder. You can either directly use it in your project via source code or get CPAN module (recommended).

Prerequisites

To use Aspose Slides Cloud SDK for Perl you need to register an account with Aspose Cloud and lookup/create App Key and SID at Cloud Dashboard. There is free quota available. For more details, see Aspose Cloud Pricing.

Installation

cpan ASPOSE/AsposeSlidesCloud-SlidesApi-22.06.tar.gz

Sample usage

The example code below converts a PowerPoint document to PDF format using aspose_slides_cloud library:

	use File::Slurp;

	use AsposeSlidesCloud::Configuration;
	use AsposeSlidesCloud::SlidesApi;

	my $config = AsposeSlidesCloud::Configuration->new();
	$config->{app_sid} = "MyClientId";
	$config->{app_key} = "MyClientSecret";
	my $api = AsposeSlidesCloud::SlidesApi->new(config => $config);
	my $file = read_file("MyPresentation.pptx", { binmode => ':raw' });
	my %params = ('format' => 'pdf', 'document' => $file);
	my $result = $api->convert(%params);
	my $pdf = "MyPresentation.pdf";
	open my $fh, '>>', $pdf;
	binmode $fh;
	print $fh $result;
	close $fh;

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