How to add Header, Footer and Text to existing Slides?

[ZubairImran]

Hi @ashahabov ,
Does ShapeCrawler support for adding header and Footer Text also allow Text insertion in existing Slide?. Any hint would be helpful.
In the existing slide can i add text anywhere in the slide?

Thanks
Hyder

[ashahabov]

Hello @ZubairImran,

Text Shape: Yes, you can add text wherever you want by specifying X and Y positions:

var pres = new Presentation();
var shapeCollection = pres.Slide(1).Shapes;

shapeCollection.AddShape(x: 100, y: 50, width: 100, height: 100);
var addedShape = shapeCollection.Last();
addedShape.Text = "Hello, World!";

Footer: Currently, only slide number content for the footer is supported:

var pres = new Presentation();

pres.Footer.AddSlideNumber();

Header: If I'm correctly understood, Header is the subject of the Notes and Handouts, not the regular slide:

Please correct me if you mentioned another.

[ashahabov]

The issue #945 was created to implement the Footer Text feature. Now it is waiting for a volunteer🙂

Regarding the header, slide doesn't have a built-in concept "Header", only Notes and Handouts (screenshot above). However, you can try to simulate this like below:

        var presStream = new MemoryStream(File.ReadAllBytes(@"c:\temp\header.pptx"));
        var pres = new Presentation(presStream);
        var slideWidth = pres.SlideWidth;

        foreach (var slide in pres.Slides)
        {
            slide.Shapes.AddShape(0, 5, (int)slideWidth, 10);
            var header = slide.Shapes.Last();
            header.TextBox.Text = "My header";
            header.Fill.SetNoFill();
            header.Outline.SetNoOutline();
            header.TextBox.Paragraphs[0].Portions[0].Font!.Color.Update(Color.Black.Hex);
        }
        
        pres.SaveAs(@"c:\temp\output.pptx");

[ZubairImran]

Thanks a lot @ashahabov , will try the above simulation.

[ZubairImran]

@ashahabov ,
Thanks a lot for the above header related and its working fine, dont we have option to set the Font?. Currently its taking the slide's Font.

[ashahabov]

Here you can find how to update font.

[ZubairImran]

Thanks a lot @ashahabov