PDF to PPT converter

[Ben Wylie]

I am a University Student studying medicine.

Some of our lecturers don't give us handouts, but instead put their
powerpoint handouts on the web, having used some kind of ppt to pdf
converter.
The problem is that you can't do the printouts that Office/Open Office can
do with printing 6 slides to a page, and not printing the background (As far
as i can tell anyway).

Is there any freeware out there which will convert pdf files back to
powerpoint presentations which would enable me to print it out 6 slides to a
page and just the text, not a black background with white text on it?

Thanks for your help,
Ben

 

[Helen]

I am a University Student studying medicine.

Some of our lecturers don't give us handouts, but instead put their
powerpoint handouts on the web, having used some kind of ppt to pdf
converter.
The problem is that you can't do the printouts that Office/Open Office can
do with printing 6 slides to a page, and not printing the background (As far
as i can tell anyway).

Is there any freeware out there which will convert pdf files back to
powerpoint presentations which would enable me to print it out 6 slides to a
page and just the text, not a black background with white text on it?

Thanks for your help,
Ben

I don't know about a converter from pdf to ppt or vice versa,
however there is a free ppt viewer for '97-2000 on Microsoft's website.
You can view ppts but you cannot edit them. I don't know if that will
help - also there are pdf readers including Adobe Reader.
http://www.pricelessware.home.org

Just a minimum of research on your part.

 

[Susan Bugher]

I don't know about a converter from pdf to ppt or vice versa,
however there is a free ppt viewer for '97-2000 on Microsoft's website.
You can view ppts but you cannot edit them. I don't know if that will
help - also there are pdf readers including Adobe Reader.
http://www.pricelessware.home.org

Just a minimum of research on your part.

It's http://www.pricelesswarehome.org

more specifically - PDF apps start here:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php#2.02ConvertPDFToText


Susan

 

[Ben Wylie]

Thanks.

The file is a pdf file not a ppt file so the MS ppt viewer isn't what i
need.
I can view the pdf file fine, but i need a pdf converter to convert back to
ppt so that i
can use the PowerPoint printing functions of having 6 slides to a sheet and
not printing the background.

Thanks for the PDF to text links, but ideally i'd like to convert it back to
ppt for the reasons already explained.

Thanks
Ben

 

[B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson]

Is there any freeware out there which will convert pdf files back to
powerpoint presentations which would enable me to print it out 6 slides to a
page and just the text, not a black background with white text on it?

Depends on the method with which these *.pdf files were created. If all
information has been converted to be a picture, than you only get the
text back if you use OCR software.

If the text is still there, but the document is protected - then you'll
need to get hold of the password before the next step.

Try to execute <Select all> and afterwards <Copy> from menu 'Edit' of
the Acrobat Reader software. If there is something selectable, you can
insert the copied information within another program (Winword, PowerPoint
or OpenOffice). Try to find the program where the result of the paste
looks best for further use.

To answer your original question: No I don't know a real pdf2ppt free
converter. There are a few commercial ones which claim to do that.
But I doubt they do lots more than what the above mentioned copy/paste
achieves. Free text extractors for *.pdf files are out there, OTOH.
(As Susan already pointed out.)

BeAr

 

[Bebop & Rocksteady]

The file is a pdf file not a ppt file so the MS ppt viewer isn't what i
need.
I can view the pdf file fine, but i need a pdf converter to convert back
to ppt so that i
can use the PowerPoint printing functions of having 6 slides to a sheet
and not printing the background.

Thanks for the PDF to text links, but ideally i'd like to convert it
back to ppt for the reasons already explained.

Not possible..

PDF is a compressed EPS or Printer file and has striped many of the PPT
commands...

 

[Bebop & Rocksteady]

Not possible..

PDF is a compressed EPS or Printer file and has striped many of the PPT
commands...

opps sorry push go to soon... hehehe

the only way I could see that is remaking the PPT and import parts of the PDF
as required....

 

[Wald]

I am a University Student studying medicine.

Some of our lecturers don't give us handouts, but instead put their
powerpoint handouts on the web, having used some kind of ppt to pdf
converter.
The problem is that you can't do the printouts that Office/Open Office
can do with printing 6 slides to a page, and not printing the
background (As far as i can tell anyway).

No way to convert PDF to PPT. Period. These formats are simply too
different. Like Bebop & Rocksteady mentioned, PDF is a bit EPS-like in its
approach (although it's not as simple as "compressed EPS").

But if the only goal is to print it 6-pages-on-one-sheet, then you should
do fine with a good printer driver. Most printer drivers allow you to do n-
up printing just fine, from within any program.

That still doesn't solve the background colors problem, of course, but it's
a start...

Regards,
Wald

 

[Ibn Battuta]

The problem is that you can't do the printouts that Office/Open Office can
do with printing 6 slides to a page, and not printing the background (As far
as i can tell anyway).

As you know by now it isn't possible to convert PDFs back to PPT, but there
are two option I can think of:

1) You should be able to modify the print settings to print more than one
slide to a page. When you select Print from the File menu, select Properties
(next to the printer name), and then Layout. There should be an option for
Pages Per Sheet. Select the number of slides you want on each sheet of
paper.

2) With some PDF readers or the full Acrobat you can pave a PDF as JPEG
images - one image per page. Then import the images into a new PowerPoint
presentation, one image per slide. Of course this is a bit of work and you
lose any functionality (transitions, links, etc), but you will have original
PPT print functions.

I would try option 1 first, as it's easiest. Hope this helps.

Ibn

 

[Ben Wylie]

As you know by now it isn't possible to convert PDFs back to PPT,

I think this should be possible ... perhaps.
There are programs which convert pdf to rtf extracting all text and images.
Powerpoint can import rtf files, if it is in the correct format - ie text as
heading
one or heading two will be imported as titles of the slide or text in the
slide.
However there doesn't seem to be a program which does all of this at the
moment...

1) You should be able to modify the print settings to print more than
one slide to a page. When you select Print from the File menu, select
Properties (next to the printer name), and then Layout. There should
be an option for Pages Per Sheet. Select the number of slides you
want on each sheet of paper.

Thanks i didn't realise i could do that. It is very helpful although there
is
still problem with the slides being mainly white on black, which for
printing
purposes is useless.

2) With some PDF readers or the full Acrobat you can pave a PDF as
JPEG images - one image per page. Then import the images into a new
PowerPoint presentation, one image per slide. Of course this is a bit
of work and you lose any functionality (transitions, links, etc), but
you will have original PPT print functions.

I don't have the full Adobe Acrobat, but i did use the snapshot tool to copy
each pdf page and pasted it into MS Paint. Because it was mostly white or
yellow writing on a black or dark blue background, I decided to invert the
colours, fill the background as white and then invert the colours again on
any
photos or images in the slide. This took quite a while to do this for 88
slides,
and the output is never going to be perfect but the output is 100x more
printer
friendly then the stuff they gave us. I then used Image Importer Wizard from
http://skp.mvps.org/iiw.htm to bring all of the jpg files into a ppt
presentation.

Thanks again for all of your advice.

Ben

 

[Mel]

Not possible..

PDF is a compressed EPS or Printer file and has striped many of the PPT
commands...

http://www.pdf2all.com/

PDF to PowerPoint
Convert a PDF to a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation (PPT).

http://www.pdf2all.com/download.shtml ( 9 full conversions free )

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From the folks who gave us Ghostscript

http://www.laux-it.com/PDF2PPT.html

 

[socrtwo]

Is there any freeware out there which will convert pdf files back to
powerpoint presentations which would enable me to print it out 6 slides to a
page and just the text, not a black background with white text on it?

Ben,

Try opening the opening the PDF files in Acrobat Reader in at least
version 6.0 or 7.0, and choosing the "Save as Text" from the File Menu.


The text of the PowerPoint, now PDF Files, may be extractable. You
could then import the text back into PPT via File Menu -> Open -> File
of Type -> Choose "All Outlines (*.txt, *.rtf, *.doc, *.wpd, *.wps)"
from the dropdown list.

You could also obviously open the resulting text file in Word or
Notepad.

I'm not sure or not if earlier versions of Acrobat Reader the version
6.0, allows the saving of all the text in a file in one fell swoop.
Socrtwo