Problem viewing generated PowerPoint files on Mac OS X

Aspose.Slides Product Family
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When generating PowerPoint files via Presentation.Write(), with either overload, we are running into a problem trying to view those files PowerPoint 2004 for Mac OS X. The documents display with the correct number of slides, the correct master slide, but no data in each slide.

We’ve tried commenting out lines of code to see if we could narrow it down to a specific piece of code. Eventually, we commented out code until we were left with nothing more than:

FileStream fileStream = new FileStream ( “MyPresentation.ppt”, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read );
Presentation present = new Presentation ( fileStream );
present.Write( “MyNewPresentation.ppt” );
And still the problem persists.

We are on version 3.0.1.41084 of Aspose.Slides.
2

Here is an example of our output. Please note that the original file (before it is parsed by Aspose.Slides) opens fine on Office 2004 for Mac OS X.

3

Hello,

Could you please provide more additional information, for example original presentation. Since we currently don’t have Mac OS X for testing and attached presentation works fine in PowerPoint 2003-2007, it would be great if you provide also screenshots of slides without data and masters opened in Office 2004 for Mac.

Thank you,

4

No problem. Please see the attached file. Let me know if you need anything else.

Another important note: the PPT file opens fine in Keynote on Mac.

5

Is there any update on this? Do you need anything else?

6

Hello,

Unfortunately we couldn’t find the roots of the problem yet. PowerPoint error messages never provide any useful information so the only way is slow investigation of every byte in a presentation. Can I ask you to help with testing on Mac OS X? Could you please try the latest version of Aspose.Slides available here and several old versions available in the downloads? In case some of them will provide readable presentation on Mac OS X then it can help us a lot with finding the real issue.