Re: Importing PPT slideshows
The best option seems to be to make a pdf from PowerPoint and import by reference. (Because I haven't had any trouble making landscape pdfs, I don't expect to have to crop.) If things change, I'll make a new pdf, which I assume will update automatically. So it's not as easy as I'd like, but what are you going to do with Microsoft? My experience with converting Word docs is the graphics (if they come in) come in as embedded, not by reference. Madeleine --- Linda 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. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Cavanaugh Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:38 AM To: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson; Madeleine Reardon Dimond Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Importing PPT slideshows Unless the PP slides contain active elements, I would think printing the PP slides to PDF and importing those by reference would be considerably better. Perhaps there is a reason not to do this, but it sure works great here. Steve Cavanaugh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:33 AM To: Madeleine Reardon Dimond Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Importing PPT slideshows PP does not seem to behave well when it comes to printing. My solution would be to print to file full width (Letter/A4 - sadly printing will not (Office 2003) print landscape) and then crop top and bottom all pages. After that FM should be able to import by ref. Any other ideas would be interesting to hear. Bodvar On 9/4/07, Madeleine Reardon Dimond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work for a courseware department that makes PowerPoint slideshows and then imports the slides to Framemaker as OLE links to make their printed books. This process makes huge, unstable files that take forever to update. When I asked why they didn't use Frame's Import by Reference feature, I was told that FrameMaker will import only the first slide of a show. So although the Chapter 3 PowerPoint slideshow may have 20 slides, only Slide 1 will import by reference. Being used to importing pdfs one page at a time, I can't help thinking there must be a way to do the same thing with PowerPoint shows. Does anybody know what it might be? Thanks, Madeleine Reardon Dimond Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ___ 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: Importing PPT slideshows
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, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home, and when he grows up, he'll never be able to merge his car onto the freeway. - anon. ___ 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: Importing PPT slideshows
Stuart, Thanks for that. It seems like the best option, as PPT saves out every slide fairly quickly and automatically overwrites the existing files. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:55 AM To: Linda G. Gallagher Cc: 'Steve Cavanaugh'; 'Bodvar Bjorgvinsson'; 'Madeleine Reardon Dimond'; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Importing PPT slideshows 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, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home, and when he grows up, he'll never be able to merge his car onto the freeway. - anon. ___ 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: Importing PPT slideshows
If the PowerPoint slide sections are contiguous, I would consider using Adobe Acrobat to combine multiple PDF files -- some produced from FrameMaker or Word; some produced from PowerPoint. All of the options for working with PowerPoint content in FrameMaker are problematic, especially if content will continue to be updated in PowerPoint. You can even add rudimentary headers/footers in Acrobat to handle the inevitable page numbering issues. -Alan 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. -- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.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.
RE: Importing PPT slideshows
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. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Cavanaugh Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:38 AM To: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson; Madeleine Reardon Dimond Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Importing PPT slideshows Unless the PP slides contain active elements, I would think printing the PP slides to PDF and importing those by reference would be considerably better. Perhaps there is a reason not to do this, but it sure works great here. Steve Cavanaugh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:33 AM To: Madeleine Reardon Dimond Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Importing PPT slideshows PP does not seem to behave well when it comes to printing. My solution would be to print to file full width (Letter/A4 - sadly printing will not (Office 2003) print landscape) and then crop top and bottom all pages. After that FM should be able to import by ref. Any other ideas would be interesting to hear. Bodvar On 9/4/07, Madeleine Reardon Dimond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work for a courseware department that makes PowerPoint slideshows and then imports the slides to Framemaker as OLE links to make their printed books. This process makes huge, unstable files that take forever to update. When I asked why they didn't use Frame's Import by Reference feature, I was told that FrameMaker will import only the first slide of a show. So although the Chapter 3 PowerPoint slideshow may have 20 slides, only Slide 1 will import by reference. Being used to importing pdfs one page at a time, I can't help thinking there must be a way to do the same thing with PowerPoint shows. Does anybody know what it might be? Thanks, Madeleine Reardon Dimond __ __ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting ___ 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/bodvar%40gmail.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/scavanaugh%40nat-sea ttle.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/lindag%40techcomplus.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.
Re: Importing PPT slideshows
PP does not seem to behave well when it comes to printing. My solution would be to print to file full width (Letter/A4 - sadly printing will not (Office 2003) print landscape) and then crop top and bottom all pages. After that FM should be able to import by ref. Any other ideas would be interesting to hear. Bodvar On 9/4/07, Madeleine Reardon Dimond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work for a courseware department that makes PowerPoint slideshows and then imports the slides to Framemaker as OLE links to make their printed books. This process makes huge, unstable files that take forever to update. When I asked why they didn't use Frame's Import by Reference feature, I was told that FrameMaker will import only the first slide of a show. So although the Chapter 3 PowerPoint slideshow may have 20 slides, only Slide 1 will import by reference. Being used to importing pdfs one page at a time, I can't help thinking there must be a way to do the same thing with PowerPoint shows. Does anybody know what it might be? Thanks, Madeleine Reardon Dimond Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting ___ 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/bodvar%40gmail.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.
RE: Importing PPT slideshows
Unless the PP slides contain active elements, I would think printing the PP slides to PDF and importing those by reference would be considerably better. Perhaps there is a reason not to do this, but it sure works great here. Steve Cavanaugh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:33 AM To: Madeleine Reardon Dimond Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Importing PPT slideshows PP does not seem to behave well when it comes to printing. My solution would be to print to file full width (Letter/A4 - sadly printing will not (Office 2003) print landscape) and then crop top and bottom all pages. After that FM should be able to import by ref. Any other ideas would be interesting to hear. Bodvar On 9/4/07, Madeleine Reardon Dimond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work for a courseware department that makes PowerPoint slideshows and then imports the slides to Framemaker as OLE links to make their printed books. This process makes huge, unstable files that take forever to update. When I asked why they didn't use Frame's Import by Reference feature, I was told that FrameMaker will import only the first slide of a show. So although the Chapter 3 PowerPoint slideshow may have 20 slides, only Slide 1 will import by reference. Being used to importing pdfs one page at a time, I can't help thinking there must be a way to do the same thing with PowerPoint shows. Does anybody know what it might be? Thanks, Madeleine Reardon Dimond __ __ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting ___ 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/bodvar%40gmail.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/scavanaugh%40nat-sea ttle.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.
Re: Importing PPT slideshows
Of course I had to forget to mention distilling before cropping! So I am in agreement with Steve. Except, don't you need to crop the pdfs? Bodvar On 9/6/07, Steve Cavanaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless the PP slides contain active elements, I would think printing the PP slides to PDF and importing those by reference would be considerably better. Perhaps there is a reason not to do this, but it sure works great here. Steve Cavanaugh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:33 AM To: Madeleine Reardon Dimond Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Importing PPT slideshows PP does not seem to behave well when it comes to printing. My solution would be to print to file full width (Letter/A4 - sadly printing will not (Office 2003) print landscape) and then crop top and bottom all pages. After that FM should be able to import by ref. Any other ideas would be interesting to hear. Bodvar On 9/4/07, Madeleine Reardon Dimond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work for a courseware department that makes PowerPoint slideshows and then imports the slides to Framemaker as OLE links to make their printed books. This process makes huge, unstable files that take forever to update. When I asked why they didn't use Frame's Import by Reference feature, I was told that FrameMaker will import only the first slide of a show. So although the Chapter 3 PowerPoint slideshow may have 20 slides, only Slide 1 will import by reference. Being used to importing pdfs one page at a time, I can't help thinking there must be a way to do the same thing with PowerPoint shows. Does anybody know what it might be? Thanks, Madeleine Reardon Dimond __ __ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting ___ 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/bodvar%40gmail.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/scavanaugh%40nat-sea ttle.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.
