PDF to PPT

[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

 

[pratt]

I don't know of such a thing, and really doubt it exists. You should
definitely talk to the Professor about having a link available to
download the entire PPT file. I used to work in the Distance Learning
department of a university, and we always put a link to the file, as
well as JPEG's of each slide online, so students had an option. If
enough people complain, they'll make the change.

 

[Sandy]

See "auto import PDF" posting below. It's helping me...

 

[Sandy]

The other way to do it is to use your snap shot tool in
Adobe, then copy it and paste it to your PowerPoint
Slides.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

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?

I don't expect you'll find anything like this. Best bet is to get the original
PPT file if possible; failing that, some printer drivers will let you choose
multiple pages per sheet output. If your printer supports this, you might at
least be able to save some paper, though you wouldn't be able to change the
background/text colors.

 

[Ben Wylie]

I don't expect you'll find anything like this. Best bet is to get the original
PPT file if possible; failing that, some printer drivers will let you choose
multiple pages per sheet output. If your printer supports this, you might at
least be able to save some paper, though you wouldn't be able to change the
background/text colors.

Thanks for your advice.
I have written to the relevant lecturer to request the ppt file so we shall
see what happens.

Ben

 

[Ben Wylie]

The other way to do it is to use your snap shot tool in
Adobe, then copy it and paste it to your PowerPoint
Slides.

This is what i have now done. 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 as suggested in the other PDF to PPT thread.

Thanks for your ideas and advice,

Ben