Importing PPT slideshows

[Stuart Rogers]

Linda G. Gallagher 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. 


Powerpoint will export to quite a number of formats, including .jpg, 
.gif, and .png.  It creates a folder named the same as the .ppt file, 
and saves as Slide1.png, Slide2.png, etc.

You could import these files by reference into FM (without the need for 
cropping), and updates would be transparent as long as the number/order 
of slides isn't changed.  If they do muck about with inserting/deleting 
slides, you'd have a problem -- but that would be true in any 
application that imports by reference.

HTH,

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Stuart Rogers
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