Somehow I missed this discussion, but I might be able to offer some relevant info. First off, I am the Sr. Team Lead of Flash/Flex development at www.flypaper.com. We created a product that creates presentation slides (we call them stories) that run in a Flex/AS3 runtime on the web. The application will also import PowerPoint slides for output. I don't know which conversion library we are using (one of our C# devs implemented it) but if our product isn't the solution you are looking for (give it a try, there is a 30 free trial) I would be happy to offer what guidance I can.
Steve On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Paul Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "brucewhealton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:40 AM > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Couple questions > > > > Well, it seems to me that a slide presentation need not look like and > > behave just like Powerpoint, right? That just occurred to me while I > > was reading the messages here. Perhaps all that is needed is an > > existing component with the ability to move from one display to the > > next, one slide as it were. > > Making a slide show type program is fairly easy. > > > It might be a great deal of work though > > to make the component look nice, like one might see with Powerpoint > > applications. > > What do you think? > > LOL depends what you mean by "nice". > > The strength of powerpoint is in laying out screen components on a page > with > good control over their appearance and the availability of canned > transformations and effects to add interest. That coupled with an ability > to > use layout templates and control how a presentation plays back and can be > printed out makes Powerpoint what it is. > > Replicating all that in Flex is a lot of work. Making something similar is > certainly doable. Making a tool that does a targetted subset of that is > very > doable, but it won't be powerpoint. > > Most of the thread has concentrated on converting powerpoint slides to run > in flash, which is a completely different proposition from making a > powerpoint-like tool in flex. > > What exactly are your goals here? > > Paul > > > > Bruce > > > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> > >> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:19 AM > >> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Couple questions > >> > >> > >> > Bruce, there are a mass of powerpoint to flash converters out there - > >> > google > >> > is your friend. > >> > > >> > The one I've worked with produced fairly large files and the > > output is an > >> > AS1/AS2 swf. > >> > > >> > If I were writing a slide player, I'd probably use Flex, though for a > >> > slide > >> > player it could probably just as well be all in actionscript so > > Flash or > >> > Flex is neither here nor there. > >> > >> One thing I should add - when I was researching powerpoint to flash > >> converters a few months back - none of them produced AS3 swfs, so > >> controlling the playback from Flex (or Flash AS3) is a little > > problematic - > >> you'd need an intemediary AS2 swf to talk between the runtime > > systems. Some > >> of the converters include players for playing back the converted files. > >> Eventually I wrote a player using AS2. > >> > >> Good luck. > >> > >> Paul > >> > >> > Paul > >> > ----- Original Message ----- > >> > From: "brucewhealton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> > >> > Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 6:01 AM > >> > Subject: [flexcoders] Couple questions > >> > > >> > > >> >> Hello all, > >> >> I had a few questions, where I could use some suggestions or > >> >> opinions and ideas. One is regarding Powerpoint-like presentations > >> >> online. If you were going to do something like this, would you use > >> >> Flash or Flex - maybe these are not even the best choices? Are there > >> >> extensions for Flash or Flex to convert a powerpoint file to > > something > >> >> that would play in the Flash Player? Actually, I'm not sure if there > >> >> even are any extensions for Flex like there are for other Adobe > >> >> products, but I bet there are. > >> >> Next, I noticed that there is a nice AIR application for reading > >> >> Flexcoder messages. I'm only aware of one, the only additional thing > >> >> I'd want is the ability to post to the group from the AIR > > application. > >> >> Can anyone suggest some good sources for a variety of AIR > > applications? > >> >> Lastly, are there any script collections of free or commercial > >> >> Flex MXML/Actionscript applications that one could check out, such as > >> >> what there are at http://hotscripts.com and other similar places. > >> >> thanks, > >> >> Bruce > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> ------------------------------------ > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> Flexcoders Mailing List > >> >> FAQ: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > >> >> Alternative FAQ location: > >> >> > > > https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 > >> >> Search Archives: > >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! > Groups > >> >> Links > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > ------------------------------------ > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Flexcoders Mailing List > >> > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > >> > Alternative FAQ location: > >> > > > > https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 > >> > Search Archives: > >> > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! 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