PowerPoint to Frame

[Dov Isaacs]

Assuming you are using a reasonably recent version of Microsoft Office, there is another easy way of extracting the graphical elements from the original document. Save the Office document using one of the new formats such as .DOCX (for Word), .XLSX (for Excel), or .PPTX (for PowerPoint). Those "new" files are actually Zip file archives, despite their file suffix. Open the file in your favorite ZIP utility after renaming the suffix to .ZIP. Inside the .ZIP file, you will find a subdirectory named media. Inside that media subdirectory, you will find all those wonderful graphics assets as actual files, typically .JPG, .TIF, .EPS, .WMF, .EMF, etc. Simply extract the file(s) from the ZIP archive and you have what you need!

Good luck.

                - Dov

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Pat Christenson
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:01 AM
To: Framers Users
Subject: Re: PowerPoint to Frame

I never knew about this! Thanks for posting it.

Pat Christenson

On Jun 13, 2011, at 10:42 PM, Rene Stephenson wrote:


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.

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