Add Shapes to PowerPoint using Java

This article will demonstrate how to add a variety of shapes to a PowerPoint slide and how to fill the shapes with a solid color, a picture, a pattern or a gradient using Java.

Tools:
● Free Spire.Presentation for Java
● IntelliJ IDEA

Installation(2 Methods)
● Download the free Java API and unzip it. Then add the Spire.Presentation.jar file to your project as dependency.

● You can also add the jar dependency to your maven project by adding the following configurations to the pom.xml.

<repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>com.e-iceblue</id>
            <name>e-iceblue</name>
            <url>http://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
        </repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>e-iceblue</groupId>
        <artifactId>spire.presentation.free</artifactId>
        <version>3.9.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Java Code

import com.spire.presentation.*;
import com.spire.presentation.drawing.*;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;

public class AddShapes {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

        //create a PowerPoint document
        Presentation presentation = new Presentation();

        //append a Triangle and fill the shape with a solid color
        IAutoShape shape = presentation.getSlides().get(0).getShapes().appendShape(ShapeType.TRIANGLE, new Rectangle2D.Double(115, 130, 100, 100));
        shape.getFill().setFillType(FillFormatType.SOLID);
        shape.getFill().getSolidColor().setColor(Color.orange);
        shape.getShapeStyle().getLineColor().setColor(Color.white);

        //append an Ellipse and fill the shape with a picture
        shape = presentation.getSlides().get(0).getShapes().appendShape(ShapeType.ELLIPSE, new Rectangle2D.Double(290, 130, 150, 100));
        shape.getFill().setFillType(FillFormatType.PICTURE);
        shape.getFill().getPictureFill().setFillType(PictureFillType.STRETCH);
        BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new File("logo.jpg"));
        shape.getFill().getPictureFill().getPicture().setEmbedImage(presentation.getImages().append(image));
        shape.getShapeStyle().getLineColor().setColor(Color.white);

        //append a Heart and fill the shape with a pattern
        shape = presentation.getSlides().get(0).getShapes().appendShape(ShapeType.HEART, new Rectangle2D.Double(515, 130, 130, 100));
        shape.getFill().setFillType(FillFormatType.PATTERN);
        shape.getFill().getPattern().setPatternType(PatternFillType.CROSS);
        shape.getShapeStyle().getLineColor().setColor(Color.white);

        //append a Five-Pointed Star and fill the shape with a gradient color
        shape = presentation.getSlides().get(0).getShapes().appendShape(ShapeType.FIVE_POINTED_STAR, new Rectangle2D.Double(115, 300, 100, 100));
        shape.getFill().setFillType(FillFormatType.GRADIENT);
        shape.getFill().getGradient().getGradientStops().append(0, KnownColors.BLACK);
        shape.getShapeStyle().getLineColor().setColor(Color.white);

        //append a Rectangle and fill the shape with gradient colors
        shape = presentation.getSlides().get(0).getShapes().appendShape(ShapeType.RECTANGLE, new Rectangle2D.Double(290, 300, 150, 100));
        shape.getFill().setFillType(FillFormatType.GRADIENT);
        shape.getFill().getGradient().getGradientStops().append(0, KnownColors.LIGHT_SKY_BLUE);
        shape.getFill().getGradient().getGradientStops().append(1, KnownColors.ROYAL_BLUE);
        shape.getShapeStyle().getLineColor().setColor(Color.white);

        //append a Bent Up Arrow and fill the shape with gradient colors
        shape = presentation.getSlides().get(0).getShapes().appendShape(ShapeType.BENT_UP_ARROW, new Rectangle2D.Double(515, 300, 130, 100));
        shape.getFill().setFillType(FillFormatType.GRADIENT);
        shape.getFill().getGradient().getGradientStops().append(1f, KnownColors.OLIVE);
        shape.getFill().getGradient().getGradientStops().append(0, KnownColors.POWDER_BLUE);
        shape.getShapeStyle().getLineColor().setColor(Color.white);

        //save the document
        presentation.saveToFile("output/AddShapes.pptx", FileFormat.PPTX_2010);
    }
}

Comments

[Philipp Gysel]

Great article! So I had a look at the other products offered by Spice and it looks like the cover a lot, including PDF generation, bar code generation and much more. Do you know how the licensing works and what is free?

[CodeSharing]

They have a list of products like Spire.Doc, Spire.PDF, Spire.XLS, Spire.Presentation that are used to manipulate documents in different formats on .NET or Java platforms. Only the commercial version needs to apply a license to remove the evaluation message on the generated documents, while the free version doesn't need that and there's no evaluation message, but free veison has certain page limitations.

[CodeSharing]

A tutorial about licensing:
e-iceblue.com/Tutorials/Licensing/...