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On 05/18/2010 10:24 AM, Wes Lakenan wrote:
Hi,
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.
I have only a very vague sense what you are trying to do, but I think
this kind of thing would be possible. Is the idea that the slides from
the presentation appear as images in the text, so that the student can
see them there with the text?
If so, then I would think the workflow could look like this. You create
two separate documents: a LyX document for the text, and a presentation
document, for which you could use OpenOffice Impress or LyX itself, via
the Beamer class, or you could stick with PowerPoint. You print the
presentation document as a PDF and then use something like pdftoppm to
convert the pages of the pdf to images. The images themselves can then
be inserted into the LyX document in the usual way. Since all of this is
just running a bunch of programs, it could all be automated, even,
though you might have to check the image names manually, as they could
change if you'd added or removed pages.
Richard
