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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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.
