PPT to HTML

[Ron Merk]

When I save my PPT presentation to HTML, the files created
are not named in order.

My presentation has 44 slides. PPT created a bunch of
other files besides the slide files, but what's really
annoying is that the slide files are created with names
like slide00025.html

slide00025.html is the first slide html created, but not
the first slide in the presentation!!! What gives with
that?? Can anyone tell me how I can control the naming
convention and integretiy of the slide order when saving
to HTML?

Feel free to email me directley at (e-mail address removed)

Ron

 

[Karl]

Hello Ron,

I'm sure you had edited your presentation many times, PowerPoint has
internal SlideID to track your changes. If you delete the first slide and
insert a new slide as first slide, then the first slide has a larger number
than the second slide.

You can find your slides order by the following lines in script.js
var gMainDoc=new Array(new hrefList("slide0001.htm",1,-1,1),new
hrefList("slide0002.htm",1,-1,1));

Or you can create a new presentation slide by slide in order, do not Delete
or Insert Before the last slide.

Regards,

Karl

Web powerpoint presentations with video,music and flash
http://www.presentersoft.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

When I save my PPT presentation to HTML, the files created
are not named in order.

My presentation has 44 slides. PPT created a bunch of
other files besides the slide files, but what's really
annoying is that the slide files are created with names
like slide00025.html

slide00025.html is the first slide html created, but not
the first slide in the presentation!!! What gives with
that?? Can anyone tell me how I can control the naming
convention and integretiy of the slide order when saving
to HTML?

I doubt you can control the naming of the slides in html format, at
least not with PPT itself.

I'm curious as to why you'd need to, though. Can you fill us in on
that one?

 

[Ron]

Hi Steve:

Thanks for the reply. Per your curiousity <grin>

I'm taking the HTML files and compiling them via an ebook
compiler.

Needless to say the stand alone ebook doesn't display the
pages in the correct order becasue of the way PPT saved
the HTML files. ((((((

Ron

 

[Ron]

Hi Karl:

Thks Your anser was most helpful

Ron

 

[Guest]

I have been trying to cope with a timing problem and in the course of that investigation came across a note that indicated the ability to remove that history of the file by using 'save as'. If you try to 'save as' , then reload, before exporting as an HTML I wonder if it wouldn't give you a new and proper file sequence.

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

I have two suggestions:
1) What happens if you open a blank presentation file and do an Insert-->
Slides From Files, add in the slides from your presentation, save it as a
new name and then HTML that file. I would guess that the slide numbers would
be reset, as it is an entirely new file.

2) Look into Steve's PPT2HTML tool. It will give you more control over your
slides and might make this work better. (Besides, the HTML is much cleaner.)
Information on the tool can be found here:
http://www.rdpslides.com/ppt2html/

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[Steve Rindsberg]

I'm taking the HTML files and compiling them via an ebook

compiler.

Needless to say the stand alone ebook doesn't display the
pages in the correct order becasue of the way PPT saved
the HTML files. ((((((

Ouch! Gotcha. Thanks for scratching that itch. I couldn't imagine why the names
of the html files would matter. A failure of the imagination, obviously. ;-)

Considering what you're doing, you <commercial_alert> might want to have a peek at
our PPT2HTML converter. It'd solve the numbering problem right off, and give you a
lot of control over the way the html version of the presentation looks. See the
pptools url below. </Commercial_alert>

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have been trying to cope with a timing problem and in the course of that

investigation came across a note that indicated the ability to remove that history
of the file by using 'save as'. If you try to 'save as' , then reload, before
exporting as an HTML I wonder if it wouldn't give you a new and proper file
sequence.
No; once PPT's assigned a SlideID to a slide in a given presentation, it's never
used again and never changed.

On the other hand, you might get there if you start a new presentation based on
the same template as the original one, then Insert, Slides, From File from the
original.

 

[Guest]

Steve, I looked. Unfortunately I may be just a little slower than the average bear. The PPT2HTML looks a little less intuitive than what I would need, though if it could help normalize the performance problems between platforms as discussed elsewhere I could be more easily convinced to apply a little more effort.

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

AJC,
It looks more complicated than it really is. It's one of those programs that
takes longer to explain than to actually use. And the customer support isn't
bad either. (And, no I am not related to the company.)

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve, I looked. Unfortunately I may be just a little slower than the average

bear. The PPT2HTML looks a little less intuitive than what I would need, though if
it could help normalize the performance problems between platforms as discussed
elsewhere I could be more easily convinced to apply a little more effort.
Oscar, The TechSupport Grouch (that's me with my geek outfit on) isn't too scary, and
he's usually pretty willing to answer tech support questions for people who're trying
out the demo. ;-)

It's really simpler than the web site makes it look (read: the site needs work!).
The best way to get a feel for it is to install it, open a presentation, visit the
preferences dialog and choose the basic template it comes with and let it squirt some
html for you.

People tend to get the hang of it pretty quickly.