Creating a PowerPoint Slide/PPT from Reporting Services Output

Hello,
I am trying to copy the rendered output from Reporting Services to create a
PowerPoint presentation. I understand that it is not possible to directly
render to a PPT and I am able to do so by saving the output IMAGE stream to a
file, and then loading PPT sildes from that file. However, my server will
have numerous hits and this is a very costly operation (in terms of disk
usage and performance). Is there any way or 3rd party tool by which I can
convert the Reporting Services output to a PPT without using an intermediate
file?
Thanks,
Ajay.It would take a lot of coding, but you could write a custom rendering
extension. PowerPoint is easy to automate; its object model is quite
straightforward. But from what I hear, custom rendering extensions are very
very (very very?) difficult to write! Your idea of saving to an image and
loading the image is probably the shortest path to a PPT solution.
Alternatively, you may be able to write or find a third-party solution that
will take HTML output and convert it to PPT. Either way, you're probably
either going to do some streaming or intermediate file handling.
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'(' Jeff A. Stucker
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Business Intelligence
www.criadvantage.com
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"Ata" <ajay.abraham@.wipro.com> wrote in message
news:55EEA9F0-3618-4F3A-9BF8-3AD1C50EC89C@.microsoft.com...
> Hello,
> I am trying to copy the rendered output from Reporting Services to create
> a
> PowerPoint presentation. I understand that it is not possible to directly
> render to a PPT and I am able to do so by saving the output IMAGE stream
> to a
> file, and then loading PPT sildes from that file. However, my server will
> have numerous hits and this is a very costly operation (in terms of disk
> usage and performance). Is there any way or 3rd party tool by which I can
> convert the Reporting Services output to a PPT without using an
> intermediate
> file?
> Thanks,
> Ajay.|||I just finished doing a ppt presentation using print screen to capture the
window. Then I used the cropping and drawing tools within powerpoint to clip
out areas I wished to focus on, or render the whole window if that's what I
wanted. It was a simple process. You many want something different, but
there's a lot to be said for easy.
"Ata" wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to copy the rendered output from Reporting Services to create a
> PowerPoint presentation. I understand that it is not possible to directly
> render to a PPT and I am able to do so by saving the output IMAGE stream to a
> file, and then loading PPT sildes from that file. However, my server will
> have numerous hits and this is a very costly operation (in terms of disk
> usage and performance). Is there any way or 3rd party tool by which I can
> convert the Reporting Services output to a PPT without using an intermediate
> file?
> Thanks,
> Ajay.|||I'm working on copying the RS output image stream to the clipboard and from
there to PPT. However, there are some format-related issues as the RS output
is binary data but PPT expects a bit more sophistication I guess. Thanks for
the information.
Regards,
Ajay.
"Jeff A. Stucker" wrote:
> It would take a lot of coding, but you could write a custom rendering
> extension. PowerPoint is easy to automate; its object model is quite
> straightforward. But from what I hear, custom rendering extensions are very
> very (very very?) difficult to write! Your idea of saving to an image and
> loading the image is probably the shortest path to a PPT solution.
> Alternatively, you may be able to write or find a third-party solution that
> will take HTML output and convert it to PPT. Either way, you're probably
> either going to do some streaming or intermediate file handling.
> --
> '(' Jeff A. Stucker
> \
> Business Intelligence
> www.criadvantage.com|||Sorry! I'm not sure I understood you properly. Are you using the Print Screen
key on the keyboard or doing this programmatically in some way?
"CGW" wrote:
> I just finished doing a ppt presentation using print screen to capture the
> window. Then I used the cropping and drawing tools within powerpoint to clip
> out areas I wished to focus on, or render the whole window if that's what I
> wanted. It was a simple process. You many want something different, but
> there's a lot to be said for easy.