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We are happy to introduce you to phppptx 3. The latest major version of the library includes a handful of new features, methods and options which will make you create the most impressive MS PowerPoint presentations.

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Here's the list of phppptx features:

• MS PowerPoint 2024 support.
• PHP 8.4 support.
• Merge PPTX files (Advanced and Premium licenses).
• Notes:
  • Add new notes in slides.
  • Replace variables.
  • Remove notes.
• New targets to use with replace and remove template methods: notesSlides, slideLayouts and slideMasters.
• New method to insert SVG contents: addSvg.
• WebP image format supported.
• HTML to DOCX:
  • CSS variables.
  • Supported root and only-child selectors.
  • Improved CSS media query handling.
  • CSS 8-digit HEX colors are added as 6-digit HEX colors.
• New method to add a macro: addMacroFromPptx.
• New methods to remove contents in a template: removeVariableAudio, removeVariableImage, removeVariableVideo.
• New method addLink to add links.
• Handle PTX, PPTM, POTX and POTM extensions automatically.
• Supported ofPie as chart type in addChart.
• Indexer (Advanced and Premium licenses):    
  • Notes.             
• replaceVariableImage includes sizeX and sizeY options to set custom sizes, and the descr option.
• removeShapeSlide handles timing tags related to the removed shape.
• New cleanLayoutParagraphContents option not to clean paragraph contents from the layout when adding a new slide with addSlide.
• Encrypt PPTX supports files bigger than 6.5MB (Premium licenses).
• GdImage objects supported when adding images.
• Theme charts supports applying custom colors to lines (Premium licenses).
• setPresentationShettings applies RTL settings if enabled.
• Included a sample_composer.json file in the plugins folder of the namespaces package (Advanced and Premium licenses).
• PHP GD Extension is checked in phpdocx-cli and check scripts.
• New enableHugeXmlMode static function in XmlUtilities to parse huge XML contents enabling the XML_PARSE_HUGE flag (LIBXML_PARSEHUGE predefined constant).