Efficient sharing preview of PPT

[Mitch Gallant]

What is the most efficient way (space wise) to convert a PPT presentation to
share with folks for a content preview? (say via email)? Say it isn't
important to have any audio or transitions included.
Is the "Save as .. " jpg slides the quickest way and smallest for email
purposes?
Would importing this set of images into say Photo Story and converting to a
small wmv be smaller?

Very roughly, Save as .. jpg images exported from PPT 2003 takes about 100
kb/picture (for default 10" wide or 720x480 exported jpg images). So a 20
image PPT would export to 2 Mb set of images.

Obviously, if recipient has XP, they have a nice slide-show mode view
already in Explorer "Filmstrip" mode,
but I'm looking for other approaches.

- Mitch

 

[Austin Myers]

Mitch,

Take a look at the add in I created called PFCExpress and see if it meets
your needs.

www.pfcmedia.com



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Mitch Gallant]

Thanks Autin. I'll bookmark that addin.
Quite a few of the folks who would receive the email probably have no
concept of a custom folder etc..
I'm sure you know what I mean (some are in the + 80 age group).
What format are the slides and media files in the zip archive? I'm a bit
uneasy about zip archives also with the number of (rightly so) designed
barries to zip attachments.
Cheers,
- Mitch

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Mitch,
Can you take screen shots of the slides as they play? If so, take each one
and save it as a smaller picture and then send the group of pictures...
(FYI: I use Snagit to do this quite regularly. If you want instructions for
doing it with SnagIt, let me know.)

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

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[Austin Myers]

Thanks Autin. I'll bookmark that addin.
Quite a few of the folks who would receive the email probably have no
concept of a custom folder etc..
I'm sure you know what I mean (some are in the + 80 age group).
What format are the slides and media files in the zip archive?

The presentation is in either ppt or pps format. (You choose the format
when you send it with the add in.)

The media files are untouched by PFCExpress. What you put in is what you
get out unless you also use PFCMedia to insert them. (In that case they are
wmv.)

I'm a bit uneasy about zip archives also with the number of (rightly so)
designed barries to zip attachments.

I hear ya, getting so you can't send much of anything any more. Ask me
about how I and my ISP went round and round over this issue. Naw, don't
bother...



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Mitch Gallant]

I find that exporting from PPT using "Save as .." jpgs and then resizing the
entire group at once in Office Picture Manager works well also. (images are
fairly legible down to about 448x336 downsizing).

Actually that brings up a related question about sending a group of images
to email recipients:
Typically one might zip up the group of images, or just attach them as a
bunch of discrete attachments. However, wouldn't it be cool (at least for
WinXP users if you could attach a bunch of images in some sort of
container so that when the WinXP recipient opened the attachment-archive, it
would open automatically in an explorer window in FilmStrip mode?? How
convenient would that be!
I suppose that could be done by using WinZip self-extractor exe packaging,
and specifying an action of opening up the folder where zip contents are
unzipped to and forcing the window to FilmStrip mode.
Anyone done this yet?

- Mitch Gallant
JavaScience Consulting