Need to merge PPTs

["Justin T. Sampson" <ju...@krasama.com>]

Hi!

We need to merge several PPTs into a single PPT -- each of the original PPTs
has a single slide with some simple shapes and images, and each slide just
needs to go straight into the output PPT. I noticed an earlier thread on
this topic saying that it's not quite supported because HSLF doesn't yet
support all the different complex shapes. How close is it now? We're willing
to contribute code if it's close. In particular, I'm curious, is it possible
to just copy the raw data pretty directly from each source PPT into the
output, without necessarily knowing anything about the particular shapes and
images being used? That is, can we achieve the specific need of merging PPTs
without actually implementing all the different shapes and images in HSLF?

Cheers,
Justin Sampson