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Set the background style of slides

The background can be plain white, a solid or gradient color fill, pattern or a picture fill. A properly managed PPT document with suitable background style can give a different feeling to showing the content for its readers. Using Spire.Presentation for .NET, you can set the background style to add a color background for your presentation. You can also use a picture or a pattern for a slide background.

Spire.Presentation for .NET, a reliable .NET PPT component, enables you to generate, read, edit, convert even print your PPT documents without installing Microsoft PowerPoint on your machine. Using Spire.Presentation for .NET, you can set the background style of slides in your PPT document with C#, VB.NET. Please see the target PPT document with different background style of slides as below pictures:

Set the background style of slides

Set the background style of slides

Set the background style of slides

There is a guide to introduce a method to set background of slides to achieve above screenshots with C#, VB.NET via Spire.Presentation for .NET.

The main steps of method are:

Step 1: Create a presentation with three slides.

Presentation presentation = new Presentation();
presentation.Slides.Append();
presentation.Slides.Append();

Step 2: Set the background of the first slide to Gradient color.

presentation.Slides[0].SlideBackground.Type = BackgroundType.Custom;
presentation.Slides[0].SlideBackground.Fill.FillType = FillFormatType.Gradient;
presentation.Slides[0].SlideBackground.Fill.Gradient.GradientStops.Append(1f, KnownColors.LightGreen); presentation.Slides[0].SlideBackground.Fill.Gradient.GradientStops.Append(0f, KnownColors.White);

Step 3: Set the background of the second slide to Solid color

presentation.Slides[1].SlideBackground.Type = BackgroundType.Custom;
presentation.Slides[1].SlideBackground.Fill.FillType = FillFormatType.Solid;
presentation.Slides[1].SlideBackground.Fill.SolidColor.Color = Color.DarkSeaGreen;

Step 4: Set the background of the third slide to picture

string ImageFile = @"Data\bg.png";
RectangleF rect = new RectangleF(0, 0, presentation.SlideSize.Size.Width, presentation.SlideSize.Size.Height);
presentation.Slides[2].SlideBackground.Fill.FillType = FillFormatType.Picture;
IEmbedImage image = presentation.Slides[2].Shapes.AppendEmbedImage(ShapeType.Rectangle, ImageFile, rect);
presentation.Slides[2].SlideBackground.Fill.PictureFill.Picture.EmbedImage = image as IImageData;

Step 5: Save the document

presentation.SaveToFile("background.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2010);

Download and install Spire.Presentation for .NET and use below code to experience this method to set background for slides in PPT document.

The full code:

[C#]
using System.Drawing;
using Spire.Presentation;
using Spire.Presentation.Drawing;
namespace backgroundc
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        { 
            //create PPT document
            Presentation presentation = new Presentation();

            //add new slide
            presentation.Slides.Append();
            //add new slide
            presentation.Slides.Append();

            //set the background of the first slide to Gradient color
            presentation.Slides[0].SlideBackground.Type = BackgroundType.Custom;
            presentation.Slides[0].SlideBackground.Fill.FillType = FillFormatType.Gradient;
            presentation.Slides[0].SlideBackground.Fill.Gradient.GradientShape = GradientShapeType.Linear;
            presentation.Slides[0].SlideBackground.Fill.Gradient.GradientStyle = Spire.Presentation.Drawing.GradientStyle.FromCorner1;
            presentation.Slides[0].SlideBackground.Fill.Gradient.GradientStops.Append(1f, KnownColors.LightGreen);
            presentation.Slides[0].SlideBackground.Fill.Gradient.GradientStops.Append(0f, KnownColors.White);

            //set the background of the second slide to Solid color
            presentation.Slides[1].SlideBackground.Type = BackgroundType.Custom;
            presentation.Slides[1].SlideBackground.Fill.FillType = FillFormatType.Solid;
            presentation.Slides[1].SlideBackground.Fill.SolidColor.Color = Color.DarkSeaGreen;

//set the background of the third slide to picture
            string ImageFile = @"Data\bg.png";
            RectangleF rect = new RectangleF(0, 0, presentation.SlideSize.Size.Width, presentation.SlideSize.Size.Height);
            presentation.Slides[2].SlideBackground.Fill.FillType = FillFormatType.Picture;
            IEmbedImage image = presentation.Slides[2].Shapes.AppendEmbedImage(ShapeType.Rectangle, ImageFile, rect);
            presentation.Slides[2].SlideBackground.Fill.PictureFill.Picture.EmbedImage = image as IImageData;
           

            IAutoShape shape;
            TextRange textRange;
            for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
            {
                shape = presentation.Slides[i].Shapes.AppendShape(ShapeType.Rectangle,
                new RectangleF(50, 70, 600, 100));
                shape.ShapeStyle.LineColor.Color = Color.White;
                shape.Fill.FillType = Spire.Presentation.Drawing.FillFormatType.None;

                shape.AppendTextFrame("Demonstrates to how to set the background style of slides.");

                //set the Font and fill style
                textRange = shape.TextFrame.TextRange;
                textRange.Fill.FillType = Spire.Presentation.Drawing.FillFormatType.Solid;
                textRange.Fill.SolidColor.Color = Color.Black;
                textRange.LatinFont = new TextFont("Arial Black");
            }
            //save the document
            presentation.SaveToFile("background.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2010);
            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("background.pptx");

        }
    }
}
[VB.NET]
Imports System.Drawing
Imports Spire.Presentation
Imports Spire.Presentation.Drawing
Module Module1

    Sub Main()
        'create PPT document
        Dim presentation As New Presentation()

        'add new slide
        presentation.Slides.Append()
        'add new slide
        presentation.Slides.Append()

      
        'set the background of the first slide to Gradient color
        presentation.Slides(0).SlideBackground.Type = BackgroundType.[Custom]
        presentation.Slides(0).SlideBackground.Fill.FillType = FillFormatType.Gradient
        presentation.Slides(0).SlideBackground.Fill.Gradient.GradientShape = GradientShapeType.Linear
        presentation.Slides(0).SlideBackground.Fill.Gradient.GradientStyle = Spire.Presentation.Drawing.GradientStyle.FromCorner1
        presentation.Slides(0).SlideBackground.Fill.Gradient.GradientStops.Append(1.0F, KnownColors.LightGreen)
        presentation.Slides(0).SlideBackground.Fill.Gradient.GradientStops.Append(0.0F, KnownColors.White)

        'set the background of the second slide to Solid color
        presentation.Slides(1.SlideBackground.Type = BackgroundType.[Custom]
        presentation.Slides(1).SlideBackground.Fill.FillType = FillFormatType.Solid
        presentation.Slides(1).SlideBackground.Fill.SolidColor.Color = Color.DarkSeaGreen

‘set the background of the third slide to picture
        Dim ImageFile As String = "bg.png"
        Dim rect As New RectangleF(0, 0, presentation.SlideSize.Size.Width, presentation.SlideSize.Size.Height)
        presentation.Slides(2).SlideBackground.Type = BackgroundType.[Custom]
        presentation.Slides(2).SlideBackground.Fill.FillType = FillFormatType.Picture
        Dim image As IEmbedImage = presentation.Slides(2).Shapes.AppendEmbedImage(ShapeType.Rectangle, ImageFile, rect)
        presentation.Slides(2).SlideBackground.Fill.PictureFill.Picture.EmbedImage = TryCast(image, IImageData)
           
        Dim shape As IAutoShape
        Dim textRange As TextRange
        For i As Integer = 0 To 3
            shape = presentation.Slides(i).Shapes.AppendShape(ShapeType.Rectangle, New RectangleF(50, 70, 600, 100))
            shape.ShapeStyle.LineColor.Color = Color.White
            shape.Fill.FillType = Spire.Presentation.Drawing.FillFormatType.None

            shape.AppendTextFrame("Demonstrates to how to set the background style of slides.")

            'set the Font and fill style
            textRange = shape.TextFrame.TextRange
            textRange.Fill.FillType = Spire.Presentation.Drawing.FillFormatType.Solid
            textRange.Fill.SolidColor.Color = Color.Black
            textRange.LatinFont = New TextFont("Arial Black")
        Next
        'save the document
        presentation.SaveToFile("background.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2010)
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("background.pptx")
    End Sub
End Module

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