How Can I Combine Two Presentations (pptx) Into One Master Presentation?

I'm part of a project team that created PPTX presentations to present to clients. After creating all of the files, we need to add additional slides to each presentation. All of the

Solution 1:

I was able to achieve this by using python and win32com.client. However, this doesn't work quietly. What I mean is that it launches Microsoft PowerPoint and opens input files one by one, then copies all slides from an input file and pastes them to an output file in a loop.

import win32com.client
from os import walk

defmergePresentations(inputFileNames, outputFileName):

    Application = win32com.client.Dispatch("PowerPoint.Application")
    outputPresentation = Application.Presentations.Add() 
    outputPresentation.SaveAs(outputFileName)

    for file in inputFileNames:    
        currentPresentation = Application.Presentations.Open(file)
        currentPresentation.Slides.Range(range(1, currentPresentation.Slides.Count+1)).copy()
        Application.Presentations(outputFileName).Windows(1).Activate()    
        outputPresentation.Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso("PasteSourceFormatting")    
        currentPresentation.Close()

    outputPresentation.save()
    outputPresentation.close()
    Application.Quit()

# Example; let's say you have a folder of presentations that need to be merged #           to new file named "allSildesMerged.pptx" in the same folder

path,_,files = next(walk('C:\\Users\\..\\..\\myFolder'))
outputFileName = path + '\\' + 'allSildesMerged.pptx'

inputFiles = []
for file in files:
    inputFiles.append(path + '\\' + file)

mergePresentations(inputFiles, outputFileName)

Solution 2:

The GroupDocs.Merger REST API is also another option to merge multiple PowerPoint presentations into a single document. It is paid API but provides 150 monthly free API calls.

Currently, it supports working with cloud providers: Amazon S3, DropBox, Google Drive Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Windows Azure Storage, FTP Storage along with GroupDocs internal Cloud Storage. However, in near future, it has a plan to support merge files from the request body(stream).

P.S: I'm developer evangelist at GroupDocs.

# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-merger-cloud/groupdocs-merger-cloud-python-samples# Get Client ID and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloudclient_id = "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"client_secret = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"documentApi = groupdocs_merger_cloud.DocumentApi.from_keys(client_id, client_secret)
 
item1 = groupdocs_merger_cloud.JoinItem()
item1.file_info = groupdocs_merger_cloud.FileInfo("four-slides.pptx")
item2 = groupdocs_merger_cloud.JoinItem()
item2.file_info = groupdocs_merger_cloud.FileInfo("one-slide.docx")
 
options = groupdocs_merger_cloud.JoinOptions()
options.join_items = [item1, item2]
options.output_path = "Output/joined.pptx"result = documentApi.join(groupdocs_merger_cloud.JoinRequest(options))

Solution 3:

A free tool called "powerpoint join" can help you.