Powerpoint comparator

[akashsharma03]

Hi Steve,

Is there any way to compare two ppts or their objects such as chart object , table object and all of their properties.

Also, is there any way convert the Presentation object into a dictionary with its attributes as key-value pair?

[mszbot]

Surely you can just write a function to do this yourself...

[akashsharma03]

I mean the universe of comparison is so huge. Is there any way to optimize this? Compare every instance of charts, its series, its color , markers, borders, everything.

[scanny]

A good place to start would be helping us understand your purposes. What outcome are you pursuing? For example, if it's just raw equality, then a hash comparison would do the trick. You need to do the work of making plain to us what is in your mind and not call upon us to guess.

[akashsharma03]

Sorry for the vague question. My intent here is that I have a template PowerPoint which has multiple chart, text boxes and table formatted in a particular format with every series in chart having a specific format or every text box or table having their own formatting. Every week the template has to be refreshed with new data which is done through a vba script. After the data refresh is done, some of formatting of the elements are not retained.

I am trying to write a python code that could check the formatting of every element vs the template so that the format of the PowerPoint is reserved.

How should I approach this?

Thanks in Advance.

[scanny]

What would you do if you detected a formatting difference?

[akashsharma03]

Detecting the formatting difference is kind of an important aspect here.

If there is a formatting difference, that has to made correct. Maybe through a script or manually.