PowerPoint to Frame

[Rene Stephenson]

I agree with David about save-as-html – that’s the route I’ve taken many times in similar situations, and it has proven a pretty efficient way to extract the graphics into something FM can use as a referenced graphic.

 

However, I’d like to add a bit about the graphics… Due to the way that Microsoft Office products handle graphics, it is best to attempt to get the graphics back to their original resolution before doing the save-as-html. To do this, you can use the Find feature in PPT (or Word when you have a DOC file), searching for any graphic. When Find locates a graphic, from the picture tool bar, choose the Reset Graphic button (looks like a curved                                                                                                                                               arrow pointing at a picture), and then click the graphic. If the graphic was larger or higher resolution than what is presently displayed in the PPT/DOC file, it will enlarge to its original state at import. This will look messy, but just bear with the process. When you finish finding and resetting all the graphics, THEN do the save-as-html trick. The resulting graphics file will populate with a bunch of image* files.

 

One final alternative in this procedure: If you don’t want to go with another product, you can then open the HTML file you just created in Word, select all, copy, and then in FM paste as plain text into a body-style paragraph. Apply your headings as needed, insert the image* files, and Bob’s your uncle!

 

BTW: the ImpGraph plug-in is a great way to preconfigure your graphics import settings in FM.  ;-)

 

HTH

Rene

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Spreadbury
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 7:53 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com; GillianFlato
Subject: Re: PowerPoint to Frame

 


Gilian,
One way would involve saving your powerpoint as html and then converting the html to text. There is a freeware utility called htmlastext (www.nirsoft.net/utils/htmlastext.html) that I have used to strip the html code, resulting in a text file. The saveas html should create a separate folder of the graphic elements in your powerpoint.

Paste the text portions into your Frame paratags/elements, importing the graphics as needed. This should leave you with what you are looking for.

--- On Mon, 6/13/11, Flato, Gillian <gflato at nanometrics.com> wrote:


From: Flato, Gillian <gflato at nanometrics.com>
Subject: PowerPoint to Frame
To: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Date: Monday, June 13, 2011, 6:16 PM

I’ve got about 25 power point presentations of various sizes from which I have to create a manual. Does anyone know an easy and effective way to go from PPT to FM?

 

 

Thank you,

 

 

Gillian Flato

Senior Technical Writer (Software)

nanometrics

1550 Buckeye Dr. 

Milpitas, CA. 95035

(408.545.6316

7  408.232.5911

* gflato at nanometrics.com

 


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