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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Hi Ron,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> I have been playing with a similar project in
my spare time. It has been a frustrating process, but you have a couple
of options. If you are willing/able to use a Windows environment, you can
use Win32::OLE and Win32::Process. If you want to implement Bill's
suggestion, you can build the web pages as you like, then use LWP::Simple to
pull the content in to your ppt presentation. This is useful if you are
making a similar presentation repeatedly with content updated on a
website. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> If you are in a *nix environment, you can use
Open Office and the module OpenOffice::OODoc. I did not have consistent
results with this approach, however. I was also using more flashy slides
with charts and stuff and that may have been my issue. Here is an article
on how it can be done with images:</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=blue face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><a
href="http://linuxgazette.net/116/herrmann.html"><font color=blue><span
style='color:blue'>http://linuxgazette.net/116/herrmann.html</span></font></a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I have been pretty happy with the Windows approach so far, but understand
that it may not be an option. If it is and you are interested, feel free
to contact me off list and I would be happy to share some code.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Thank You,<br>
Chuck Orr</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: spug-list-bounces+co4004=att.com@pm.org [mailto:spug-list-bounces+co4004=att.com@pm.org]
On Behalf Of Ron Pero<br>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 12:09 PM<br>
To: spug-list@pm.org<br>
Subject: SPUG: From non-PowerPoint to PowerPoint</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Hi</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Do you know of an easy way to prepare PowerPoint slides from plain
text?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>It can be done if we stick to simple headings and bullet points:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/powerpoint_tip_import_text_word.html.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>How about something more full featured, that lets me import graphics
from files, and insert tables?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I've seen Perl things here and there, but these presentations have to
end up as actual PowerPoint </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>files. So if I can create it in something non-PPt, but then export it
to PPt, that would work.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Thank you,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Ron</span></font></p>
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