On 5/18/2010 10:31 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote:
Wes Lakenan wrote:
My company is looking into switching from MS Word to a less stressful program to create textbook-like binders. My company is a government contractor that teaches program management courses that utilize both printed text and PowerPoint presentations. Right now, we create PowerPoint files and copy/paste them into a Word document. This allows the students to follow along with the printed text and use the inserted PowerPoint slides to follow the presentation. However, every time a slide is changed or deleted, every slide needs to be reinserted. Is it possible to insert individual slides throughout the document one by one? I appreciate any help you can give me.
Why do the unchanged slides need to be reinserted? Is it because the slides are numbered and the numbers have changed? LyX will certainly let you insert individual images (which presumes that you have exported each slide to an image file). I'm not aware of any method of using DDE with LyX to automatically import linked slides from a PPT show (which does not preclude there being one).
How wedded are you to PowerPoint? You might take a look at beamer, which produces presentations in PDF files. There are a couple of examples on the wiki at http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer. I mention beamer because it allows you to generate a presentation, handouts and optionally a document (article) from a single source file. If you use the article mode, you can specify that selected slides be inserted at specific locations.
/Paul
