@pptkit/pptx-exporter

@pptkit/pptx-exporter validates and normalizes a Core authoring document, resolves layout once, loads image assets, serializes editable OOXML parts, and returns a deterministic PPTX package. The default entry is browser-neutral; the /node entry additionally reads local files and writes output.

Browser-neutral generatePptx(document)

declare function generatePptx(
  document: PresentationDocument,
): Promise<GeneratePptxResult>;

import { generatePptx } from "@pptkit/pptx-exporter";

const result = await generatePptx(presentation);

const blob = new Blob([result.bytes], {
  type: "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation",
});

console.log(result.status, result.slideCount, result.byteLength);

The default entry loads source.type: "url" assets using fetch. HTTP(S), data, and blob URLs are accepted when supported by the runtime. Local path assets are omitted with a warning.

Node.js entry

The Node entry exports both generatePptx() and writePptx() and supports URL and path assets.

import { writePptx } from "@pptkit/pptx-exporter/node";

const result = await writePptx(presentation, {
  output: "./output/deck.pptx",
});

console.log(result.status, result.output, result.warnings);

writePptx(document, options)

declare function writePptx(
  document: PresentationDocument,
  options: { output: string },
): Promise<WritePptxResult>;

output is required. Parent directories are created as needed, and the returned output path identifies the written file.

Result types

interface GeneratePptxResult {
  bytes: Uint8Array;
  slideCount: number;
  byteLength: number;
  warnings: ExportWarning[];
  status: "generated" | "generated-with-warnings";
}

interface WritePptxResult {
  output: string;
  slideCount: number;
  byteLength: number;
  warnings: ExportWarning[];
  status: "written" | "written-with-warnings";
}

interface ExportWarning {
  code: string;
  message: string;
  slideId?: string;
  elementIndex?: number;
  assetId?: string;
}

byteLength is the generated package size. A non-empty warning collection changes the status but does not discard otherwise valid presentation content.

Failure and warning behavior

Condition	Outcome
Core validation errors	Rejects with PresentationValidationError containing all error diagnostics.
URL request failure	Omits the affected image and returns an asset warning.
Missing local file in Node	Omits the affected image and returns an asset warning.
Path asset through the default entry	Omits the image and explains that /node is required.
Output directory does not exist	Node entry creates it.
Output write fails	writePptx() rejects with the filesystem error.

Applications should display or log warnings even when output was generated successfully.

Exported presentation features

• Editable rich text paragraphs and runs, direct/theme colors, theme fonts, bullets, numbering, hyperlinks, and slide actions.
• Images with stretch, contain, cover, crop, opacity, accessibility, and media relationships.
• Shapes, connectors, nested groups, and native editable tables with cell spans.
• Native editable charts (c:chartSpace) for vertical/horizontal bar, line, and pie. The exporter writes explicit axes, scales, gridlines, ticks, fonts, markers, gaps, manual plot layout, native legend position, and per-point pie colors. Right/bottom legend flow is left to the corresponding native position instead of a manual legend box that Office may reflow into extra rows. Each chart owns a minimal embedded XLSX with category/series formulas and caches, so PowerPoint and WPS can open Edit Data without reconstructing the source.
• Reusable slide layouts, typed placeholders, backgrounds, theme parts, hidden slides, and speaker notes.
• Presentation metadata plus PPTKit-owned slide metadata preservation for section, tags, and custom data.

Core supplies explicit normalized defaults. The exporter translates those semantics into OOXML but does not choose business defaults.

Runtime boundary example

const remote = presentation.registerAsset({
  kind: "image",
  source: { type: "url", value: "https://example.com/image.png" },
  mimeType: "image/png",
});

// Works in the default and Node entries when the URL is reachable.
slide.addElement({
  type: "image",
  assetId: remote.id,
  box: { x: 80, y: 120, width: 320, height: 180 },
});

For asset registration and dimensions, see Core assets. For geometric resolution before export, see @pptkit/layout.