PowerPoint Generator API
  • PowerPoint Generator API
  • Getting started
    • Quick start
  • API reference
    • token/create
    • generator/create
  • Knowledge base
    • Key concepts
    • Templating your presentation
    • Building your JSON payload
    • Finding shape names
  • JSON/ PPTX Reference
    • presentation
    • slides
    • shapes
      • textbox
      • chart
      • picture
      • table
    • tags
    • Deprecated
  • Examples
    • Presentation
      • Naming output presentation
      • Using multiple templates
    • Slide
      • Change shape size and position
      • Change shape background color
      • Hide or remove shape
      • Replacing tags
    • Textboxes
      • Add text
      • Set font type and size
      • Set font color and font background color
      • Set bold, italic & underline
      • Set text alignment
      • Set text indentation
      • Set text line spacing
      • Using bullet-points
    • Chart
      • Change font settings
      • Insert data
      • Adjust chart legend
      • Appending to data labels
    • Pictures
    • Table
      • Populate simple table
      • Using `text_runs` in Table cells
      • Handling merged cells
      • Update a specific cells in existing table
    • Tags
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  1. Examples
  2. Slide

Change shape size and position

To change the size and position of a shape(text box, image, table, charts, etc)

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  1. Specify name of shape to be amended. This outlines how to find out name of the shape.

  2. Insert relevant size or position settings into settings object

  3. Set the desire shape size height weight & position top left using a JSON payload

  4. Specify the unit unit

Before and after:

PowerPoint template:

JSON payload:

{
   "presentation": {
      "template": "slides_as_template_size_position.pptx",
      "export_version": "Pptx2010",
      "slides": [
         {
            "type": "slide",
            "slide_index": 0,
            "shapes": [
               {
                  "name": "Title 1",
                  "settings": {
                     "height": 7,
                     "width": 12,
                     "top": 10,
                     "left": 20,
                     "unit": "cm"
                  }
               }
            ]
         }
      ]
   }
}
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slides_as_template_size_position.pptx