Re: FM To PowerPoint
Kathleen: Great suggestion. I have been doing a similar version of this technique for years now. I have several layouts, each uses the same set of tags. Each layout displays the tags differently -- one as a set of slides, one as a set of slide and notes for me, the other as a PDF of the slides. I start all of this in a Harvard Outline template that I have customized with my tags. This approach allows me to write my presentation in Frame, save as PDF and I'm done. I end up with a print version, a slide show for sharing and viewing, and a slide show with my notes in it. Ta da! No PowerPoint required. Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler +1 317.466.1840 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thecontentwrangler.com Newsletter: http://ui.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1101355010034&p=oi Slideshare: www.slideshare.net/abelsp Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/scottabel Skype: abelsp [don't miss these events] DocTrain EAST 2007: Advancing Your Career October 16-20, 2007 Lowell, MA 16 half-day workshops / 40+ sessions www.doctrain.com Web Content Management - CM Pros Fall 2007 Summit November 26, 2007 Boston, MA www.cmprosevents.org ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: FM To PowerPoint
Do you need all of the bells and whistles in PowerPoint? If not, just use FrameMaker and PDF. Use disconnected pages with three workflows - one for the slide material, one below that for viewer notes, and one below that for presentation notes. Generate a PDF of all three workflows for the presentation notes. Crop the bottom workflow out leaving just the two top workflows and save that PDF as the viewer notes. Crop both of the bottom workflows out and save that PDF as the presentation. Run the presentation PDF in full screen mode. Your situation will determine if you can live without the PowerPoint bells and whistles, but if you can, it saves tons of time. If you can'twell good luck! KJ Kathleen Johnson | Technical Writer office 813.854.3584 | fax 813.854.3645 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Double-Take Software www.doubletake.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 7:47 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FM To PowerPoint Hi Framers, I am looking for a utility or plugin for converting FrameMaker documents to PowerPoint slides. A related question: Office 2007 is supposed to be more XML-aware. Is this the case with PowerPoint 2007? Perhaps there is a way to convert FM files to PowerPoint via XML. Thanks in advance for any help. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/kjohnson%40doubletak e.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FM To PowerPoint
Am 02.08.2007 13:47, Rick Quatro schrieb/wrote: > Hi Framers, > > I am looking for a utility or plugin for converting FrameMaker documents > to PowerPoint slides. > > A related question: Office 2007 is supposed to be more XML-aware. Is > this the case with PowerPoint 2007? Perhaps there is a way to convert FM > files to PowerPoint via XML. Thanks in advance for any help. Yes, Office 2007 is supposed to support the Open XML file format. I have read something about a new PowerPoint file name extension .pptx that points in this direction. I wuld try this way, but I wuld also expect a "dirty " job... - Michael -- ___ Michael M?ller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologien Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker 7.0 L?sungen und Training mit FrameScript, XML/XSL, WWP, ... http://cap-studio.de/ -- Tel. +49 (9131) 28747
FM To PowerPoint
Thanks for the suggestion. My client wants PowerPoint so they can modify the slides downstream. Rick > Do you need all of the bells and whistles in PowerPoint? If not, just > use FrameMaker and PDF. Use disconnected pages with three workflows - > one for the slide material, one below that for viewer notes, and one > below that for presentation notes. Generate a PDF of all three workflows > for the presentation notes. Crop the bottom workflow out leaving just > the two top workflows and save that PDF as the viewer notes. Crop both > of the bottom workflows out and save that PDF as the presentation. Run > the presentation PDF in full screen mode. Your situation will determine > if you can live without the PowerPoint bells and whistles, but if you > can, it saves tons of time. If you can'twell good luck! > KJ > > Kathleen Johnson | Technical Writer > office 813.854.3584 | fax 813.854.3645 | kjohnson at doubletake.com > > Double-Take Software > www.doubletake.com
FM To PowerPoint
Kathleen: Great suggestion. I have been doing a similar version of this technique for years now. I have several layouts, each uses the same set of tags. Each layout displays the tags differently -- one as a set of slides, one as a set of slide and notes for me, the other as a PDF of the slides. I start all of this in a Harvard Outline template that I have customized with my tags. This approach allows me to write my presentation in Frame, save as PDF and I'm done. I end up with a print version, a slide show for sharing and viewing, and a slide show with my notes in it. Ta da! No PowerPoint required. Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler +1 317.466.1840 scottabel at mac.com www.thecontentwrangler.com Newsletter: http://ui.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1101355010034&p=oi Slideshare: www.slideshare.net/abelsp Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/scottabel Skype: abelsp [don't miss these events] DocTrain EAST 2007: Advancing Your Career October 16-20, 2007 Lowell, MA 16 half-day workshops / 40+ sessions www.doctrain.com Web Content Management - CM Pros Fall 2007 Summit November 26, 2007 Boston, MA www.cmprosevents.org
FM To PowerPoint
Do you need all of the bells and whistles in PowerPoint? If not, just use FrameMaker and PDF. Use disconnected pages with three workflows - one for the slide material, one below that for viewer notes, and one below that for presentation notes. Generate a PDF of all three workflows for the presentation notes. Crop the bottom workflow out leaving just the two top workflows and save that PDF as the viewer notes. Crop both of the bottom workflows out and save that PDF as the presentation. Run the presentation PDF in full screen mode. Your situation will determine if you can live without the PowerPoint bells and whistles, but if you can, it saves tons of time. If you can'twell good luck! KJ Kathleen Johnson | Technical Writer office 813.854.3584 | fax 813.854.3645 | kjohnson at doubletake.com Double-Take Software www.doubletake.com -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+kjohnson=doubletake@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+kjohnson=doubletake.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 7:47 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com; framers at omsys.com Subject: FM To PowerPoint Hi Framers, I am looking for a utility or plugin for converting FrameMaker documents to PowerPoint slides. A related question: Office 2007 is supposed to be more XML-aware. Is this the case with PowerPoint 2007? Perhaps there is a way to convert FM files to PowerPoint via XML. Thanks in advance for any help. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as kjohnson at doubletake.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/kjohnson%40doubletak e.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM To PowerPoint
Am 02.08.2007 13:47, Rick Quatro schrieb/wrote: > Hi Framers, > > I am looking for a utility or plugin for converting FrameMaker documents > to PowerPoint slides. > > A related question: Office 2007 is supposed to be more XML-aware. Is > this the case with PowerPoint 2007? Perhaps there is a way to convert FM > files to PowerPoint via XML. Thanks in advance for any help. Yes, Office 2007 is supposed to support the Open XML file format. I have read something about a new PowerPoint file name extension .pptx that points in this direction. I wuld try this way, but I wuld also expect a "dirty " job... - Michael -- ___ Michael Müller-Hillebrand: Dokumentations-Technologien Adobe Certified Expert, FrameMaker 7.0 Lösungen und Training mit FrameScript, XML/XSL, WWP, ... http://cap-studio.de/ -- Tel. +49 (9131) 28747 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM To PowerPoint
Thanks for the suggestion. My client wants PowerPoint so they can modify the slides downstream. Rick Do you need all of the bells and whistles in PowerPoint? If not, just use FrameMaker and PDF. Use disconnected pages with three workflows - one for the slide material, one below that for viewer notes, and one below that for presentation notes. Generate a PDF of all three workflows for the presentation notes. Crop the bottom workflow out leaving just the two top workflows and save that PDF as the viewer notes. Crop both of the bottom workflows out and save that PDF as the presentation. Run the presentation PDF in full screen mode. Your situation will determine if you can live without the PowerPoint bells and whistles, but if you can, it saves tons of time. If you can'twell good luck! KJ Kathleen Johnson | Technical Writer office 813.854.3584 | fax 813.854.3645 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Double-Take Software www.doubletake.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FM To PowerPoint
Hi Framers, I am looking for a utility or plugin for converting FrameMaker documents to PowerPoint slides. A related question: Office 2007 is supposed to be more XML-aware. Is this the case with PowerPoint 2007? Perhaps there is a way to convert FM files to PowerPoint via XML. Thanks in advance for any help. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com
FM To PowerPoint
Not a particularly pretty task, no matter how you slice it, Rick. I'm not aware of a plug-in, but absent a better method, here's what I'd probably do -- with the assumption that reformatting is inevitable in any case, that you're working with text, and that any graphical elements to the slides you'll deal with separately. 1. Save the Frame file to RTF. 2. Open the RTF in Word and clean it up as desired. 2a. Assuming you're comfortable with Word's heading levels, get your slides-to-be in outline format using Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 heads at your desired level of terseness. 3. Use Word's Send to PowerPoint feature. 4. Open PowerPoint, perform final cleanup, apply desired design template. 5. Add any desired graphics. Jim -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+jim.pinkham=voith@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+jim.pinkham=voith.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 6:47 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com; framers at omsys.com Subject: FM To PowerPoint Hi Framers, I am looking for a utility or plugin for converting FrameMaker documents to PowerPoint slides. A related question: Office 2007 is supposed to be more XML-aware. Is this the case with PowerPoint 2007? Perhaps there is a way to convert FM files to PowerPoint via XML. Thanks in advance for any help. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as jim.pinkham at voith.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jim.pinkham%40voith. com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: FM To PowerPoint
Not a particularly pretty task, no matter how you slice it, Rick. I'm not aware of a plug-in, but absent a better method, here's what I'd probably do -- with the assumption that reformatting is inevitable in any case, that you're working with text, and that any graphical elements to the slides you'll deal with separately. 1. Save the Frame file to RTF. 2. Open the RTF in Word and clean it up as desired. 2a. Assuming you're comfortable with Word's heading levels, get your slides-to-be in outline format using Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 heads at your desired level of terseness. 3. Use Word's Send to PowerPoint feature. 4. Open PowerPoint, perform final cleanup, apply desired design template. 5. Add any desired graphics. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 6:47 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FM To PowerPoint Hi Framers, I am looking for a utility or plugin for converting FrameMaker documents to PowerPoint slides. A related question: Office 2007 is supposed to be more XML-aware. Is this the case with PowerPoint 2007? Perhaps there is a way to convert FM files to PowerPoint via XML. Thanks in advance for any help. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jim.pinkham%40voith. com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FM To PowerPoint
Hi Framers, I am looking for a utility or plugin for converting FrameMaker documents to PowerPoint slides. A related question: Office 2007 is supposed to be more XML-aware. Is this the case with PowerPoint 2007? Perhaps there is a way to convert FM files to PowerPoint via XML. Thanks in advance for any help. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
