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?

In reply to Re: a module to generate PowerPoint? by punchcard_don
in thread a module to generate PowerPoint? by punchcard_don

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