Office Publisher 2007-Animation

[Moonraker Logistics]

Does anyone know how to put animations into a publisher built website?..I
have learned alot and so far it works pretty good for my site but I want
animations in it...Power point will let me create animations but i can't seem
to get the animation to work once I put it into my website..Does anyone have
any ideas of how to do this without buying another program? Thanks I am
pretty sure there is a way to do it but I haven't figured it out..HELP!!!

 

[DavidF]

Publisher webs will support animated GIF files, but I have no idea about PP
animations. Can you convert PP animations into animated GIF files? If so you
just insert them like any other image file.

DavidF

 

[Eric James]

The best solution really depends upon what it is you are trying to display.
Web browsers do not support Powerpoint objects, but you can simply put in a
file link which will enable users to view the file separately if they have
either Powerpoint or the Powerpoint viewer installed, but I suspect that is
not what you want. To display an animated item within the page the
established methods are to use animated GIF images or Flash. GIFs are fine
for short simple animations and are commonly used in banner adverts etc.,
but Flash is better for longer things - even short videos, etc. The latter
requires the user to have downloaded the Flash plugin for their browser, but
most people will already have this.
There are numerous converter programs around to convert Powerpoint files
into animated GIFs and Flash objects, mostly commercial but some shareware
and even free.
A third method, almost bleeding edge in nature has also recently emerged,
and that is to use Silverlight - Microsoft's new Flash competitor. This also
requires a browser plugin, and there is a converter here:
http://www.codeplex.com/pptx2silverlight

I'm sure DavidF will be able to answer more mundane questions about how to
embed such foreign objects into your Publisher web site, if he hasn't
already done so in earlier posts.

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

Don't think so.
You need an .gif editor that can do animations, or use flash.


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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression