in reply to a module to generate PowerPoint?

Ok, excellent. I've searched on "Win32::OLE and powerpoint" and found abit of info. This appears to be really poorly documented in the Perl community. This looks like one way to go, thanks.

As for the Macro Reader - sounds great. But can I try more detail on you to see if it really applies?

Here's what I need to do - this is all done over the web :

  1. receive the user's query for data
  2. retrieve some data from a database
  3. insert that data into a PowerPoint file
  4. download the file to the user so that PowerPoint opens automatically and displays a series of slides with barcharts representing the inserted data
Do-able?

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Re: Re: a module to generate PowerPoint?
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Jan 27, 2004 at 20:29 UTC
    This appears to be really poorly documented in the Perl community.
    How do you figure? You mean the Perl community hasn't documented a commerical microsoft product? That's crazy.

    MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
    I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
    ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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Re: Re: a module to generate PowerPoint?
by glwtta (Hermit) on Jan 27, 2004 at 18:20 UTC
    I am curious why this needs to be done in powerpoint? Seems like a rather... overly complicated solution for displaying graphs of data stored in a database.
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