In PowerPoint documents, shadow effects can not only be applied to shapes to make them more vivid, but also can be applied to text to beautify the monotonous text. This article will share how I add shadow effect to the text in a PowerPoint slide by using a 3rd party free Java library (Free Spire.Presentation for Java).
Installation(2 Methods)
● Download the Free Spire.Presentation for Java 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> Code Snippets:
import com.spire.presentation.*; import com.spire.presentation.drawing.FillFormatType; import com.spire.presentation.drawing.OuterShadowEffect; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D; public class SetShadowEffect { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { //Create a Presentation object Presentation presentation = new Presentation(); presentation.getSlideSize().setType(SlideSizeType.SCREEN_16_X_9); //Get the first slide ISlide slide = presentation.getSlides().get(0); //Add a rectangle to slide IAutoShape shape = slide.getShapes().appendShape(ShapeType.RECTANGLE,new Rectangle2D.Float(50,60,800,100)); shape.getFill().setFillType(FillFormatType.NONE); shape.getLine().setFillType(FillFormatType.NONE); //Set text of the shape shape.appendTextFrame("CLAUDE MONET: Life and Paintings"); //Set font style shape.getTextFrame().getTextRange().setFontHeight(38f); shape.getTextFrame().getTextRange().setLatinFont(new TextFont("Arial Black")); shape.getTextFrame().getTextRange().getFill().setFillType(FillFormatType.SOLID); shape.getTextFrame().getTextRange().getFill().getSolidColor().setColor(Color.DARK_GRAY); //Create a OuterShadowEffect object OuterShadowEffect outerShadow= new OuterShadowEffect(); //Set the shadow effect outerShadow.setBlurRadius(0); outerShadow.setDirection(50); outerShadow.setDistance(10); outerShadow.getColorFormat().setColor(Color.orange); //Apply shadow effect to text shape.getTextFrame().getTextRange().getEffectDag().setOuterShadowEffect(outerShadow); //Save to file presentation.saveToFile("output/AddShadow.pptx", FileFormat.PPTX_2013); } } 
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