GO SDK - Create & Convert PowerPoint Presentations

Getting Started with Aspose.Slides Cloud SDK for Go

The recommend way to install Aspose.Slides Cloud SDK for Go is using GitHub.. To install the SDK on your system, please run the following command:

slides get github.com/aspose-slides-cloud/aspose-slides-cloud-slides 

Create & Manage Presentation via Go API

Aspose.Slides Cloud SDK for Go has provided complete support for creating and modifying PPT and PPTX presentations inside Go applications. The SDK supports creating presentations in various popular presentation file formats such as PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX, PPTM, PPSM, POTX, POTM, ODP, OTP, and many more. There are several other important features part of the library for managing presentations in the cloud, such as adding new slides to existing presentations, adding & update slide notes, creating a presentation from HTML, creating a new presentation using a template, deleting unwanted slides from presentation, split or merge existing presentation, add animation to presentations, and many more.

Add, Manage & Convert Presentation’s Slides via Go API

Aspose.Slides Cloud SDK for Go has included complete support for handling slides inside PowerPoint presentations. There are several important features part of the library for working with slides, such as adding new slides to presentations, extracting slides from a presentation, deleting unwanted slides, copying slides from one presentation to another, moving slides to another position in a presentation, managing background presentation’s slide, manage slide comments, add comments to slide, get slide information, get the number of slide from a presentation and many more.

cfg := asposeslidescloud.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AppSid = "MyClientId"
cfg.AppKey = "MyClientSecret"
api := asposeslidescloud.NewAPIClient(cfg)

dto := asposeslidescloud.NewSlideComment()
dto.Text = "Comment text"
dto.Author = "Author Name"
childComment := asposeslidescloud.NewSlideComment()
childComment.Text = "Child comment text"
childComment.Author = "Author Name"
childComments := []asposeslidescloud.ISlideCommentBase { childComment }
dto.ChildComments = childComments
comments, _, e := api.SlidesApi.CreateComment("MyPresentation.pptx", 3, dto, nil, "", "", "")
if e != nil {
    fmt.Printf("Error: %v.", e)
    return
}
fmt.Printf("The slide has %v comments", len(comments.GetList()))

Export PowerPoint Presentations via Go SDK

Aspose.Slides Cloud SDK for Go has provided some powerful features for converting PowerPoint presentations to various other support file formats using Go commands. Software developers to can convert presentations to PDF, XPS, TIFF,HTML, SWF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, FODP, XAML, MP4 and many more. It is also possible to convert selected slides, split or merge PowerPoint presentations, specify height or width of pages or images in an output document and many more. The following example demonstrates how to convert presentation’s to PDF file format.  

cfg := asposeslidescloud.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AppSid = "my_client_id"
cfg.AppKey = "my_client_key"
api := asposeslidescloud.NewAPIClient(cfg)

source, e := ioutil.ReadFile("MyPresentation.pptx")
if e != nil {
    fmt.Printf("Error: %v.", e)
    return
}

result, _, e := api.SlidesApi.Convert(source, "pdf", "", "", "", []int32 { 2, 4 }, nil)
if e != nil {
    fmt.Printf("Error: %v.", e)
    return
}
fmt.Printf("The converted file was saved to  %v.", result.Name())

Insert & Manage Shapes in Presentation via Go API

Aspose.Slides Cloud SDK for Go has provided a complete set of features for working with shapes inside PowerPoint presentations using Go commands. It provides support for adding new shapes to presentations, managing shape properties, working with SmartArt graphics, working with Math formulas, extracting Shapes from a slide, adding & managing hyperlinks, working with geometry paths, working With zoom frames, adding and managing WordArt, importing shapes From SVG and many more. The following example demonstrates how to extract shapes from the Presentation slide using Go API.  

cfg := asposeslidescloud.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AppSid = "MyClientId"
cfg.AppKey = "MyClientSecret"
api := asposeslidescloud.NewAPIClient(cfg)

// Get all shapes from the first slide.
allShapes, _, e := api.SlidesApi.GetShapes("MyPresentation.pptx", 1, "", "", "", "", "")
if e != nil {
    fmt.Printf("Error: %v.", e)
    return
}

// Get all charts from the first slide.
charts, _, e := api.SlidesApi.GetShapes("MyPresentation.pptx", 1, "", "", "", "Chart", "")
if e != nil {
    fmt.Printf("Error: %v.", e)
    return
}

// Print information about the shapes and charts.
shapeCount := len(allShapes.GetShapesLinks())
chartCount := len(charts.GetShapesLinks())
fmt.Printf("The slide contains %v shapes, including %v charts", shapeCount, chartCount)