how do I display a ppt object in a web page

[Guest]

My team develops instructional content and web bsed viewers to display this
content. We want to incorporate PPT presentations that can be displayed as an
object on the page within an iframe -- in the same manner that WMV files can
be displayed in an iframe hosting the WMP object.

We are aware that ppt files can be exported to an mht archive; however this
doesn't meet our need. We are currently developing an authoring environment
in which trainers need to consume the ppt files directly because this will
enable them to edit the presentation and be able to directly use the result
without the overhead of maintaining two separate sets of files (mht, and ppt)
I don't find any mention of a PowerPoint ActiveX object in any of the
documentation.
Am I just overlooking it?
Can this be done? ... if so what is the best way to do this?
Thanks for any tips or clues.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

My team develops instructional content and web bsed viewers to display this
content. We want to incorporate PPT presentations that can be displayed as an
object on the page within an iframe -- in the same manner that WMV files can
be displayed in an iframe hosting the WMP object.

We are aware that ppt files can be exported to an mht archive; however this
doesn't meet our need. We are currently developing an authoring environment
in which trainers need to consume the ppt files directly because this will
enable them to edit the presentation and be able to directly use the result
without the overhead of maintaining two separate sets of files (mht, and ppt)
I don't find any mention of a PowerPoint ActiveX object in any of the
documentation.
Am I just overlooking it?
Can this be done? ... if so what is the best way to do this?
Thanks for any tips or clues.

PPT files can be viewed ... sorta ... in the browser if you have PPT installed
on the client system. And try to do it only on months with an "R" in them. On
alternate Tuesdays and Fridays when the moon is in the seventh house and ...

See, it sorta works, but a lot depends on settings at the client end, what other
software is installed and so on. Not something I'd count on unless you have a
high level of control over things at both server and client end.

Another approach is to allow authors to download the PPT, upload it to a server
folder that's "watched" by an app that automatically does the conversion to
HTML. Some of our clients use our PPT2HTML Batch version for this, but if the
usual PPT MHT or HTML works for you, it might not be too difficult to automate
this type of export either.

 

[Gus Collot]

However, if I understand correctly, there should be no problem "iframing" a
pps presentation...only two considerations...

1. The visitor must have PPoint installed, as Steve has pointed out,
2. The iframed pps must contain navigation buttons or automated transitions
for slide browsing

Now, also remember that the PPoint-created HTML frame or opening file can be
re-opened through PPoint to be edited and re-created. So, unless HTML
presents a technical or cultural challenge, I don't see the reason for so
many conversion headaches.

Of course, do remember PPoint's HTML unbreakable marriage to Internet
Explorer...no way you'll be able to watch the show in FireFox or Opera.

Greetings,

Gus Collot
http://collotcorp.logon.as

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[Guest]

As I mentioned in the original post, I'm trying to *avoid* the extra overhead
of converting to mht. The goal is to present a ppt in an <object> tag within
an iframe as a *native* object - because we will have many dozens if not
hundreds of presentations to build and maintain; these may need to be updated
frequently in the course of creating training curriculum.

So, I'm still hunting .