Good to know if I was creating an animated presentation with sound and/or media files. This stuff is mostly static slides, a dozen to 40ish slides as images.
PDF might be the best format, since readers are fairly good at responsive scaling themselves. Thanks for the info, though. On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Matt Wiedeman <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry if this has been mentioned but the newer versions of PowerPoint make it > pretty easy to convert a PowerPoint to a video that can be uploaded to > YouTube. You can then embed the YouTube video in your web site. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Crozier [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 9:22 AM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: RE: [NF] Best format(s) to publish old PPT slides to the web > > Ted, > All I get after the redirect is a black screen both on Firefox and Google > Chrome and Internet Explorer 11 just refuses to connect at all! > > That's progress folks! > > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Roche > Sent: 25 February 2016 15:29 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NF] Best format(s) to publish old PPT slides to the web > > Not Fox, but kinda Fox. > > Google has started complaining about some of the older pages on my web site, > which are *ancient* (1997, 98, 99) converted PPT files which MS Office > helpfully converted into "state of the art" web pages that Google has decided > it can no longer parse, and throws what they call "soft 404" pages: framed > web pages that internally redirect, or non-standard HTML it will no longer > parse. > > So, I'd like to open these files up and re-publish them, as a historical > archive, not necessarily of any great value. The slides are pretty much curt > outlines, where the questions are presented, but the answers were usually at > the talk, and hopefully in the associated white paper. So, yeah, mixed > feelings. Folks who saw the presentations might grin at seeing the old retro > slides with funky themes. > > I would like to: > -- publish the stuff on my website, so don't bother recommending Slideshare. > -- preserve the graphical presentation, ideally in a responsive format (big > on big screens, small on small screens) with simple (cursor > keys?) and accessible navigation. > -- offer a simple alternative view as text outline, likely one not-that-long > page. > -- valid HTML/CSS/JS of course. > > Here's an example: my 1998 presentation on HTML Help was converted by > "Internet Assistant for Microsoft PowerPoint 97" > > view-source:http://www.tedroche.com/Present/1998/Dev-14/sld013.htm > > and makes pretty atrocious HTML (hey, it was 20 years ago, I did too!) > > the "main page" is http://www.tedroche.com/Present/1998/HTMLHelp.htm > but that redirects to > > http://www.tedroche.com/Present/1998/HTMLHelp_files/error.htm > > with the laughably arrogant error message, > > "This presentation contains content that your browser may not be able to show > properly. This presentation was optimized for more recent versions of > Microsoft Internet Explorer. > > If you would like to proceed anyway, click here." > > Considering this was generated with PowerPoint 97 and I'm looking at it in > Google Chromium 46, you gotta chuckle. > > I thought I could do this in LibreOffice, as it has a nice Web export wizard, > but I'm getting a bizarre I/O error exporting media. I'll try to debug that > Python wizard in parallel, but would welcome suggestions if anyone else has > tried to do something like this. > > > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4tkt_evqjo+xnfdx7pdx4aydusttgtyumy4+v0gfem...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
