Export to PowerPoint®

Posted by Jiro Doke, October 11, 2013

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Jiro's pick this week is exportToPPTX by Stefan Slonevskiy.

Did you know that you could automatically generate reports from your MATLAB program? You can publish a report in various formats -- HTML, PDF, LaTeX, XML, Microsoft® Word® (only on Windows®), and Microsoft PowerPoint (only on Windows). For PowerPoint output, each section of the program is put into a separate slide, and you can apply formatting afterwards in PowerPoint.

There are a number of File Exchange entries that allow you to programmatically create PowerPoint slides with formatting capabilities, including saveppt (Pick of the Week post), subplotPPT, and officedoc. These entries all use the COM interface to create the PowerPoint document and, therefore, require a Windows platform and PowerPoint. Stefan's exportToPPTX creates the document completely "natively" by creating the necessary XML files and packing them into a PPTX file. That means that this works in any platform that runs MATLAB, and you don't need to have PowerPoint installed. Since this is XML writing, it's much faster than the other COM interface counterparts.

Stefan includes a detailed example that showcases the various formatting options included with the function. As you can see from the animation of the slides below, here are some of the formatting options:

Setting the size of the slides
Adding pictures (from figures, axes, image files, CDATA)
Setting the position and scale of pictures
Adding text and specifying positions, angles, and font properties
Adding notes to the slides
Specifying slide background color.

Comments

Do you create presentation slides from your MATLAB results? How do you currently do that? If you haven't used exportToPPTX, give it a try and let us know what you think here or leave a comment for Stefan.

Published with MATLAB® R2013b