Presentation Viewer on django

[Amr Abdel-wahab]

Hi All,
I am new to Django I need a complete way where I can allow the user to
upload a ppt or pdf file and then in the template I show this file
embedded

Many Thanks,
Amr

[Sandro Dutra]

About PDF's you can use any PDF API for Python like reportlab and see examples like this: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/outputting-pdf/?from=olddocs

PPT is a proprietary and closed spec format from MS Powerpoint, probably you've to reverse engineering (or search for format spec) to write a view that can handle the information you want to extract.

2012/5/7 Amr Abdel-wahab <amr.mohamed...@gmail.com>

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[Jani Tiainen]

There exists few tools that uses openoffice/libreoffice to convert those proprietary formats (doc, ppt, xls) so that you can show them on a web. 

See:  http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/powerpointtoweb.html    for starting point.

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[Amr Abdel-wahab]

I don't want to generate a pdf/ppt or edit it I just need to upload it
in one page and show it in a frame in another page in the browser

[Jani Tiainen]

To be able to do that you have to convert your presentation to something more generic that can be shown. Plain HTML

and Flash are two popular formats to do that. For a free solution you can use (headless) openoffice/liberoffice to automatically convert your ppt to html/flash and then

show it on your page (inside frame).

Another option is to make sure that you return correct mime-types for a (i)frame and then your users are required to have powerpoint installed on their machines to be able to show it in browser. And I think it only works for IE, not  for FF/Chrome/Safari...

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Amr Abdel-wahab <amr.mohamed...@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't want to generate a pdf/ppt or edit it I just need to upload it
in one page and show it in a frame in another page in the browser

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