PowerPoint to Framemaker

[Dov Isaacs]

One should be very careful in using RTF as the means of transferring PowerPoint slides to a FrameMaker document.

The last several versions of Microsoft Office applications support live transparency (drop shadows, reflections, clipped images, etc.) and saving to RTF from these applications supports this. However, FrameMaker's imaging model does not support live transparency in any way. Transparency effects from RTF will likely be lost or misinterpreted when brought into a FrameMaker document.

Thus, is you want the highest fidelity for such PowerPoint slides when importing into FrameMaker, use the Acrobat "Save as PDF" function from Microsoft PowerPoint and then import into FrameMaker. Such content is obviously not editable, but will maintain graphical integrity.

If you need to be able to edit the slide content in FrameMaker, RTF is a solution as long as you understand that you will probably not maintain graphical integrity!

                - Dov

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan Litchfield
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 8:39 PM
To: Rick Quatro
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: PowerPoint to Framemaker


Or export from Powerpoint as rtf.



Alan



On 8/10/2011, at 1:33 PM, Rick Quatro wrote:



> Hi Gillian,

>

> If you don't need to edit the slides in FrameMaker, you could save them as PDF and import the PDF into your FrameMaker document.

>

> Rick Quatro

> Carmen Publishing Inc.

> 585-659-8267

> rick at frameexpert.com<mailto:rick at frameexpert.com>

>

>

>

> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]<mailto:[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]> On Behalf Of Flato, Gillian

> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 8:02 PM

> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>

> Subject: PowerPoint to Framemaker

>

> Anyone know a utility for converting PowerPoint slides with lots of graphics to FrameMaker, or something that can be imported into Frame?

>

> Thank you,

>

>

> Gillian Flato

> Senior Technical Writer (Software)

> nanometrics

> 1550 Buckeye Dr.

> Milpitas, CA. 95035

> (408.545.6316

> 7  408.232.5911

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