From: "Evan A. Willett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PowerPoint slides - poo quality when exported
>
> When exporting Powerpoint slides for use in a SMiL presentation, the
> exported files are always of poor quality - does anybody else have these
> problems?
You can increase the size of the gifs of each slide, but that will
incease your bandwith too :(
>
> OK, this is a Powerpoint problem, not a Real SMiL / RealPix problem, but I
> wonder if anybody has the same problem, and have come up with a solution.
>
> Thanks
You can make your gifs 1280x1024 and it will look alot better, but don't view
it through a modem, especially if you are going to stream video with it.
If the powerpoint slides aren't too fancy, you can convert them to
realtext, making it look better and saving alot bandwith. Writing a
html2rt converter is not too hard and I have a very crude one that we are
starting to use.
The html2rt basically takes the tsld files from powerpoints save-as-html and
converts the html tags that realtext does not recognize(like h1) and spits
out a realtext formatted file. It works for most of the slides that I have,
but I haven't worked out stuff like tables.
Now if we can interleave realtext and realpix, then graphs and charts
can be be shown with realpix and slides with only bullets on it can be
shown with realtext.
This doesn't seem to work,
<par>
<text src="slides.rp" region="slides" fill="freeze" />
<textstream src="slides.rt" region="slides" fill="freeze" />
</par>
Whichever one comes second is the one that is in the forground.
It would be nice if the timing would automatically forground too.
Does anyone know how to interleave realtext and realpix in the same region?
Evan
