PowerPoint Conversion

Service Application
Vesa Juvonen
Principal Consultant
Microsoft

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 Overview
 New service application in SP2013
 PowerPoint Conversion Service Application is all
about file conversions
 Similar service as Word Automation Service

 Business scenarios
 Requirements to convert large amount of old PPT format files to PPTX
 Convert presentations from PPTX format to some read only format, like PDF,
XPS or to images

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 Convertion possibilities
Accessed programmatically by providing file streams which
should be converted
Supported source presentation formats
Open XML File Format presentation format (.pptx)
PowerPoint 97–2003 presentation (.ppt)

Supported destination document formats

.pptx (Open XML File Format presentation format)
.pdf
.xps (Open XML Paper Specification)
.jpg
.png (Portable Network Graphics Format)

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 Considerations
 There’s no out of the box functionality to perform
conversion directly from UI
 You can however deploy customization which for example enables conversion
from all document libraries for PowerPoint presentations
 Customizations using PowerPoint Conversion Service Application has to be
deployed as full trust solution or executed in SharePoint serve

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