Importing PPT slideshows

[Madeleine Reardon Dimond]

The best option seems to be to make a pdf from
PowerPoint and import by reference. (Because I haven't
had any trouble making landscape pdfs, I don't expect
to have to crop.)

If things change, I'll make a new pdf, which I assume
will update automatically. So it's not as easy as I'd
like, but what are you going to do with Microsoft?

My experience with converting Word docs is the
graphics (if they come in) come in as embedded, not by
reference. 

Madeleine
--- Linda wrote:

> 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. 
> 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Linda G. Gallagher
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> lindag at techcomplus dot com
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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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