I am planning to create a React frontend which handles HTML presentations. Besides letting the users present online, they should also be able to download their HTML presentation as PPT (like Google Slides).

I have not yet decided on what package to use for creating the presentations, but most of the packages seem to only support the typical print-download (the PDF that is converted from the HTML when you press cmd/ctrl P). One exception is PptxGen, but that package is not an option for me (because of reasons not related to this question).

Is there a way for me to download a HTML page to PPT?

(There are multiple ways to download html to PDF - jsPDF being one. If it's cumbersome to download html as PPT, perhaps it's possible to converting html -> PDF -> PPT and then download it? Any advice?)

Thanks in advance!

CodePudding user response：

Even after extensive searching, I did not find any other open-source library that handles direct HTML-to-PPT conversions, apart from PptxGenJS, so we can conclude that if you want a direct conversion, that's your only option.

There are some other ways to do this though, one that you mentioned is converting to PDF, then to PPT. I have found a service that can do both conversions, called Cloudmersive. They seem to have a free tier, and a Javascript API client that you can use from your frontend, so this is probably worth giving a try. If this managed service also doesn't suit your needs for any reason, you can still handle the conversions yourself, for example, with jsPDF and pdf-officegen.