Convert PowerPoint to PDF in WPF

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Syncfusion® PowerPoint is a .NET PowerPoint library used to create, read, edit and convert PowerPoint presentation programmatically without Microsoft PowerPoint or interop dependencies. Using this library, you can convert a PowerPoint to PDF in WPF.

Steps to convert PowerPoint to PDF programmatically

Step 1: Create a new C# WPF application project.

Step 2: Install the Syncfusion.PresentationToPdfConverter.Wpf NuGet package as reference to your .NET Standard applications from NuGet.org.

NOTE

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Step 3: Add a new button in the MainWindow.xaml as shown below.

C#

<Window x:Class="Create_PowerPoint_Presentation_to_PDF.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
        xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Create_PowerPoint_Presentation_to_PDF"
        mc:Ignorable="d"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="450" Width="800">
    <Grid>
        <Button Click="btnConvert_Click" VerticalAlignment="Center" Height="19" BorderBrush="LightBlue" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Width="120">
            <Button.Background>
                <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.5,-0.04" StartPoint="0.5,1.04">
                    <GradientStop Color="#FFD9E9F7" Offset="0"/>
                    <GradientStop Color="#FFEFF8FF" Offset="1"/>
                </LinearGradientBrush>
            </Button.Background>
            <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Height="20" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="140">
                <Image Name="image2" Margin="2" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
                <TextBlock Text="Convert PPTX to PDF" Height="16" Width="126" />
            </StackPanel>
        </Button>
    </Grid>
</Window>

Step 4: Include the following namespaces in the MainWindow.xaml.cs file.

C#

using Syncfusion.Presentation;
using Syncfusion.PresentationToPdfConverter;
using Syncfusion.Pdf;

Step 5: Add the following code in btnConvert_Click to convert PowerPoint to PDF in WPF.

C#

//Opens a PowerPoint Presentation.
using (IPresentation pptxDoc = Presentation.Open(Path.GetFullPath(@"../../Data/Input.pptx")))
{
    //Converts the PowerPoint Presentation into PDF document.
    using (PdfDocument pdfDocument = PresentationToPdfConverter.Convert(pptxDoc))
    {
        //Saves the PDF document.
        pdfDocument.Save(Path.GetFullPath(@"../../Sample.pdf"));
    }                   
}

You can download a complete working sample from GitHub.

By executing the program, you will get the PDF as follows.

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