One should be very careful in using RTF as the means of transferring PowerPoint 
slides to a FrameMaker document.

The last several versions of Microsoft Office applications support live 
transparency (drop shadows, reflections, clipped images, etc.) and saving to 
RTF from these applications supports this. However, FrameMaker's imaging model 
does not support live transparency in any way. Transparency effects from RTF 
will likely be lost or misinterpreted when brought into a FrameMaker document.

Thus, is you want the highest fidelity for such PowerPoint slides when 
importing into FrameMaker, use the Acrobat "Save as PDF" function from 
Microsoft PowerPoint and then import into FrameMaker. Such content is obviously 
not editable, but will maintain graphical integrity.

If you need to be able to edit the slide content in FrameMaker, RTF is a 
solution as long as you understand that you will probably not maintain 
graphical integrity!

                - Dov

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Litchfield
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 8:39 PM
To: Rick Quatro
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: PowerPoint to Framemaker


Or export from Powerpoint as rtf.



Alan



On 8/10/2011, at 1:33 PM, Rick Quatro wrote:



> Hi Gillian,

>

> If you don't need to edit the slides in FrameMaker, you could save them as 
> PDF and import the PDF into your FrameMaker document.

>

> Rick Quatro

> Carmen Publishing Inc.

> 585-659-8267

> rick at frameexpert.com<mailto:rick at frameexpert.com>

>

>

>

> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at 
> lists.frameusers.com> [mailto:framers-bounces at 
> lists.frameusers.com]<mailto:[mailto:framers-bounces at 
> lists.frameusers.com]> On Behalf Of Flato, Gillian

> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 8:02 PM

> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>

> Subject: PowerPoint to Framemaker

>

> Anyone know a utility for converting PowerPoint slides with lots of graphics 
> to FrameMaker, or something that can be imported into Frame?

>

> Thank you,

>

>

> Gillian Flato

> Senior Technical Writer (Software)

> nanometrics

> 1550 Buckeye Dr.

> Milpitas, CA. 95035

> (408.545.6316

> 7  408.232.5911

> * gflato at nanometrics.com<mailto:gflato at nanometrics.com>
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