PowerPoint to Rev stack conversion?

Doug Lerner doug at webcrossing.com
Fri Feb 13 20:32:54 EST 2004


Very useful reply. Thanks for the info!

doug

On 2/14/04 10:30 AM, "Thomas McGrath III" <3mcgrath at adelphia.net> wrote:

> Yes and it is a nightmare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> If you are using the Mac go and get keynote and open your powerpoint in
> keynote and then export as an interactive quicktime.
> Keynote will make the PPT look better.
> Interactive Quicktime will keep all of the transitions and builds.
> It will lose any hyperlinks but if you know how to do quicktime
> hotspots you can put them back in. Or you can get the movie time and
> act on mouse ups that way.
> 
> If you can not use quicktime then do what I did and export from PPT as
> png slides to the size you need. Then in rev build a folder loading
> scheme into a single image with next prev buttons.
> 
> I did over 500 slides this way using 75 different ppt presentations
> with transparent buttons over some of them for navigation etc.
> 
> Interesting note:
> Keynote saves presentations in XML and you can get the Apple Schema
> online.
> That data can be brought into REV raw and use Rev's XML tools with it.
> (That would be a big project)
> 
> HTH
> 
> TOm
> On Feb 13, 2004, at 7:32 PM, Doug Lerner wrote:
> 
>> Has anybody ever tried a PPT -> Rev stack conversion?
>> 
>> doug
>> 
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