I am a linux user, and I need to prepare a presentation that must be load on a Windows Computer with MS Office.
I work with LibreOffice and in the conversion everything goes fine creating a jpg image for every slide (I don't need special effects or editable texts). The problem occurs when I try to embed a video in my presentation, bacause PowerPoint can't load them. I tried with .avi and .mp4 videos and both .ppt and .odp presentation file formats.
Is there a way to prepare a presentation with embedded videos that works in both softwares?
thanks
Alessandro
Actually, I've found a solution... saving in .ppt format and keeping the video file in the same directory, because it seems that Microsoft's .ppt doesn't embed the video in the presentation's file, but it create only a link to the file's path...
My son made a presentation in Libre Office Impress under Linux. But in school they only have Microsoft PowerPoint under Windows. So he had to convert it to PowerPoint.
The conversion works quite well if you take care of a few obstacles:
Don't use embedded videos. Instead put them in the same directory as the Impress presentation and insert the video as a link. Then it works fine after conversion.
Because the videos are not embedded you should use more common video formats, like .mp4. For example one video in the format .webm works on my linux machine, but it doesn't work on a windows PC. Maybe because some codecs are not installed.
Linked Videos are starting in Libre Office Impress by themselves. After converting to PowerPoint they only start after clicking on them. You have to change this behavior after conversion inside PowerPoint manually (what is not so nice if you have many of them...)
Don't save the .odt file in the new PowerPoint format .pptx because then pictures are not scaled correctly. Instead save it in the old PowerPoint format .ppt
Even online converter like zamzar.com use the old .ppt format.
If you are still not satisfied with the result then you have the possibility to create a video of the Impress presentation instead of showing it with PowerPoint. This would be a realistic plan B with all effects ;-)
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I made a presentation with reveal.js.
My boss asked ppt format to modify and add contents to my presentation.
He is not SW programmer and he can just use powerpoint only.
Is there are good way to convert reveal.js to ppt?
You could first convert it to PDF and then use other service to convert PDF to PPT.
There are many sites providing services to convert pdf to ppt include Adobe itself. Some of them are free some need register. You could try some of them to find the best service for your needs.
I'm wondering how it possible to extract images from .swf viewer?
Note that .swf file have not images itself.
For example I'm trying extract images from AVON catalogue from this link - http://avon.com.ua/PRSuite/eBrochure.page?index=1&cmpgnYrNr=201404&pageNo=0
Any ideas?
Best way is to put the .swf file in a decompiler for image extraction. Decompilers are smart enough to extract images for you and arrange them.
JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler is a more popular one
http://www.free-decompiler.com/flash/
You can extract other useful content from it as well.
Just download the .swf file from the website
A while back (like around 1999) I wrote a set of tools for Flash animations.
One of the tools is swf_dump which can be used to extract objects (i.e. write the objects in a form of script that sswf can nearly recompile...)
The tool also allows for extracting images that are inline (not downloaded dynamically by the flash animation, if so, anyway, you could as well download those images manually, you'd need the URL, though.)
The command line you can use is:
swf_dump -d my-animation.swf
Then your current folder will be littered with all the images that were found in the flash file. It extracts JPEGs and PNGs. The source can be compressed (SWF or CWF are supported.)
Now, you're on your own to compile that thing... The project is here and is in great need of updating (but Flash is kind of going out too...)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sswf/
I have searched many ways for free software but no results.I am having TIFF text image and i have worked with foxit reader but there is no editing options.Is there any idea for image converter tool or i want to purchase?Give me idea ? Please help?
You haven't specified what OS you use and if you are looking for source code to automate the word extraction so I will assume you have Windows and a bunch of images you want to extract text from. Therefore a quick solution would be to have a Microsoft Office CD and install the Microsoft Office Document Imaging component which performs OCR on images. In this way you can extract text. More info found here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/help/about-microsoft-office-document-imaging-HP001077103.aspx
I wanted to show a Presentation. When I run it on another computer, both the sounds and the vids didn't work. I found out about Package for CD and run it. The audio started to work on other computers, but the videos still ain't working. I am also including the audios and vids as the included files, but still, only the audios are working and the vids just show as thumbnails.
I am using PowerPoint 2007, Please help me if you have got any idea.
Thank You
It would work to save the original video file (not one copy pasted from the powerpoint presentation) in the pc. I assume you are the recipient of an emailed presentation. Make sure to have the videos in the ppt emailed as well.
For vids to play in PPT, two things have to happen:
PPT has to be able to FIND the linked video file, and
The CODEC required by the video must be installed in Windows
To keep links from breaking, you have to:
Save the PPT at least once before adding any videos
Put the video files in the same folder as the saved PPT
Make sure that the videos and the PPT file stay together, in same folder, on any computer where you want to play the presentation.
Package for CD should have handled all of that correctly for you, or modified the presentation so that it works as though it did.
As for CODEC though, you might try inserting the video into a new presentation on the system where the vids aren't working. If they still don't play, you need to figure out what codec was used and install it (or re-make the videos with a more common codec).
I'm not enough of a vid wiz to explain exactly how to do that; perhaps someone more knowledgeable will come along to fill in the blanks. If not, google is our friend.
How can I create the preview image for MS Office files like word, excel, power point in cocoa. Can anyone suggest me on this like how to handle those file? I tried using the Bitmap representation of the .doc files. It didn't work. Which API I can use?
It sounds like you want to use Quick Look. There is a great example of using Quick Look to generate an NSImage you can display anywhere with this code from Matt Gemmell
Look inside the snippets/QuickLook folder in the ZIP file he links to, and you'll find his code for getting the Quick Look preview for any file. Leopard and Snow Leopard can preview most Office files out of the box without needing Office to be installed.