[O] export presentations: org to ppt or odp

2013-03-25 Thread Vinh Nguyen
Hi everyone,

This question is probably for Jambunathan K: is an org to ppt or odp
exporter in the works?  Was wondering whether most of the work could
be borrowed form the org to odt exporter.

If anyone is wondering, why export presentations to odp or ppt when
export to pdf (via beamer) and html (S5) are available?  Those two
works well for me personally, but for work, we tend to collaborate
with others, and truth of the matter is that everyone else uses
powerpoint.  The files need to be editable and re-usable by others in
a format they could work with.

If anyone else has a current work flow they use to convert org to ppt,
please do share.  Any way to go from org to latex to ppt?  Or org to
s5 to ppt?  I did a quick google but wasn't able to find anything.
Thanks!

-- Vinh



Re: [O] export presentations: org to ppt or odp

2013-03-25 Thread John Hendy
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Vinh Nguyen vinhdi...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi everyone,

 This question is probably for Jambunathan K: is an org to ppt or odp
 exporter in the works?  Was wondering whether most of the work could
 be borrowed form the org to odt exporter.

 If anyone is wondering, why export presentations to odp or ppt when
 export to pdf (via beamer) and html (S5) are available?  Those two
 works well for me personally, but for work, we tend to collaborate
 with others, and truth of the matter is that everyone else uses
 powerpoint.  The files need to be editable and re-usable by others in
 a format they could work with.

I'd definitely love this, primarily if it allowed one to use a
pre-defined POTX template file for export. My division at work has a
new VP who is quite particular about *everyone* using the new
template. I'm going to keep using Beamer, but may be asked directly to
conform. I'd hate to lose all of my Org usage just for the sake of
having to get a PPT for the sake of creating mostly-one-time
presentations at business updates.

I've considered just trying to re-create the template as a Beamer
template, but that can get pretty involved from my previous attempt to
do so.

Also, like Vinh, others ask me, Say, can you send me that
presentation? I've love to use some of the stuff from it. They intend
to re-use pictures or copy/paste information. It's not uncommon for me
to have to say, Um. Yeah. The thing is that I use this kind of weird
program. Basically, no, I can't give you anything usable.

For most purposes, Beamer is just fine, but this would be awesome for
those types of situations.

Look forward to what others have to say!


John


 If anyone else has a current work flow they use to convert org to ppt,
 please do share.  Any way to go from org to latex to ppt?  Or org to
 s5 to ppt?  I did a quick google but wasn't able to find anything.
 Thanks!

 -- Vinh




Re: [O] export presentations: org to ppt or odp

2013-03-25 Thread Christian Moe

Vinh Nguyen writes:
 If anyone is wondering, why export presentations to odp or ppt when
 export to pdf (via beamer) and html (S5) are available?  Those two
 works well for me personally, but for work, we tend to collaborate
 with others, and truth of the matter is that everyone else uses
 powerpoint.

I feel your pain...

You're probably aware of this already, but: if your Org presentation is
organized in headings with subheadings for bullet points, you can export
it to ODT, then use the OpenOffice/LibreOffice command File  Send 
Outline to Presentation. But that only takes care of the outline, not
your pictures, quotations etc.

Yours,
Christian