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 <scavanaugh at nat-seattle.com> 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: framers-bounces+scavanaugh=nat-seattle.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+scavanaugh=nat-seattle.com at lists.frameusers.com] > On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:33 AM > To: Madeleine Reardon Dimond > Cc: framers at 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 <roseriter at yahoo.com> 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 bodvar at gmail.com. > > > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > > or visit > > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/bodvar%40gmail.com > > > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as scavanaugh at nat-seattle.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/scavanaugh%40nat-sea > ttle.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > >
