Importing PPT slideshows

[Linda G. Gallagher]

I'm wondering if anyone offered any options offlist. I'm talking to a
prospect about converting some Word docs that have lots of PPT slides
embedded in them to Frame. There are multiple books, totaling to over 1400
pages, with I don't even know how many slides in each doc, but there are
lots.

They are also constantly updating the content in both the slides and the
books that I'd convert, so I'm also wondering about a good way to do this.
Creating the PDFs and cropping them each time there's an update seems a bit
onerous.

I've also done some OLE with PPT and Frame, but it made the file load very
slowly and it was difficult to work in. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+lindag=techcomplus.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+lindag=techcomplus.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of Steve Cavanaugh
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:38 AM
To: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson; Madeleine Reardon Dimond
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Importing PPT slideshows

Unless the PP slides contain active elements, I would think printing the
PP slides to PDF and importing those by reference would be considerably
better.  Perhaps there is a reason not to do this, but it sure works
great here.


Steve Cavanaugh

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+scavanaugh=nat-seattle.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+scavanaugh=nat-seattle.com at lists.frameusers.com]
On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:33 AM
To: Madeleine Reardon Dimond
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Importing PPT slideshows

PP does not seem to behave well when it comes to printing. My solution
would be to print to file full width (Letter/A4 - sadly printing will
not (Office 2003) print landscape) and then crop top and bottom all
pages. After that FM should be able to import by ref.

Any other ideas would be interesting to hear.

Bodvar

On 9/4/07, Madeleine Reardon Dimond <roseriter at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I work for a courseware department that makes PowerPoint slideshows 
> and then imports the slides to Framemaker as OLE links to make their 
> printed books.
> This process makes huge, unstable files that take forever to update.
>
> When I asked why they didn't use Frame's Import by Reference feature, 
> I was told that FrameMaker will import only the first slide of a show.

> So although the Chapter 3 PowerPoint slideshow may have 20 slides, 
> only Slide 1 will import by reference.
>
> Being used to importing pdfs one page at a time, I can't help thinking

> there must be a way to do the same thing with PowerPoint shows. Does 
> anybody know what it might be?
>
> Thanks,
> Madeleine Reardon Dimond
>
>
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