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.
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