[thelist] PowerPoint 2000 to Web Page Conversions

[Brian King]

I don't know of any PP clean up applications out there that work worth a
hoot.  There are some companies that brag that they will do it for you.  I
have never tried them.  You are right that the PPT 95 conversion is much
much easier to clean up, but the resultant files don't work well and the
rendering on the users end sucks, doesn't work the same from machine to
machine and sometimes doesn't work at all.
The 2K version produces code that is almost impossible to, (have done some
minor clean up on it though), and it's huge.  It think that the 2K version
conversion should be a poster child for reasons not to integrate XML into
some solutions.  On the plus side of it though, if the creator of the PP
presentation uses animated gif's instead of the packaged PP animation
sequences, the converted show works nicely across most machines.
Anyway, you can still get the nav bar you are looking for in the 95
conversion, you just have to set the properties of the converter prior to
running it against your file.  Unfortunately it's still in a frame, but the
coding is simple enough you can trash the frame and include the navigation
as part of the page if you want to.

Brian W. King

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From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On
Behalf Of Villano, Paul

What is the trade off?  If there are lots of folks who will still crash in
the (frames) version, obviously I'll go with the no frames version.  But if
it's not a big deal I'd might as well give the powers that be what they
want.