📦 pptx-template-engine

Generate PowerPoint (PPTX) reports dynamically using templates with semantic text and image placeholders.

🔍 Keywords (npm search)

powerpoint, pptx, pptx-generator, powerpoint-generator, pptx-template, report-generator, automated-reports, office-open-xml, ooxml, node-pptx, browser-pptx

✨ Overview

pptx-template-engine is a lightweight JavaScript/TypeScript library for automated PowerPoint report generation.

It works with a pre-designed PPTX template and replaces:

• 📝 Text placeholders like {company_name}
• 🖼️ Image placeholders defined using Alt Text like chart:sales_chart

Unlike index-based approaches, this library uses semantic keys, making templates stable even when slides or layouts change.

🚀 Features

• 📝 Text replacement using {placeholder} syntax
• 🖼️ Image replacement using Alt Text (chart:key)
• 🧠 Semantic placeholders (no slide/image indexes)
• ⚙️ Works in Node.js and Browsers
• 🖥️ CLI support (pptx-generate, pptx-lint)
• 🧪 Template validation via manifest
• 🔄 Stable binary handling (Uint8Array)
• 📦 JavaScript & TypeScript support

📥 Installation

npm install pptx-template-engine

🧠 How It Works

1. Design a PowerPoint (.pptx) template
2. Add text placeholders like {report_month}
3. Add image placeholders using Alt Text (e.g. chart:sales_chart)
4. Generate the final PPTX using code or CLI

🧩 Creating a PPTX Template

Text placeholders

Use placeholders directly in PowerPoint text boxes:

{company_name}
{report_month}
{total_sales}

Image placeholders (IMPORTANT)

1. Insert a placeholder image (PNG or JPG)
2. Right-click → Edit Alt Text
3. Set the description to:

chart:sales_chart

Supported formats:

• ✅ PNG
• ✅ JPG
• ❌ EMF / WMF (vector images not supported)

🧪 Node.js Example

const fs = require("fs");
const { generatePPT } = require("pptx-template-engine");

(async () => {
  const template = fs.readFileSync("./template.pptx");
  const chart = fs.readFileSync("./sales-chart.png");

  const pptx = await generatePPT({
    template,
    text: {
      company_name: "Acme Corporation",
      report_month: "December 2025",
      total_sales: "$1.2M"
    },
    images: {
      sales_chart: chart
    }
  });

  fs.writeFileSync("sales-report.pptx", Buffer.from(pptx));
})();

🌐 Browser Example

import { generatePPT } from "pptx-template-engine";

const pptx = await generatePPT({
  template: templateArrayBuffer,
  text: {
    company_name: "Acme Corporation",
    report_month: "December 2025"
  },
  images: {
    sales_chart: chartBlob
  }
});

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

🖥️ Node Convenience API

const { generatePPTFromFile } = require("pptx-template-engine/node");

await generatePPTFromFile({
  templatePath: "./template.pptx",
  outputPath: "./report.pptx",
  text: require("./text.json"),
  images: require("./images.json"),
  strict: true
});

🧾 CLI Usage

pptx-generate   --template template.pptx   --out report.pptx   --text text.json   --images images.json   --strict

pptx-lint --template template.pptx --manifest template.manifest.json

📄 Template Manifest Example

{
  "text": ["company_name", "report_month", "total_sales"],
  "images": ["sales_chart"]
}

⚙️ API Reference

generatePPT(options): Promise<Uint8Array>

📄 License

MIT