Printing hyperlinked slides (in the right order)

[racheerache]

Hi,

I have a presentation that is a mix between portrait and landscapre
orientation. I need to keep the portrait slides in that orientation
because otherwise they become unreadable when reduced to a paper
document size.

Which brings me to my question:

I can make the presentation switch between portrait and landscape by
making two documents and using hyperlinks. But I want to print this
document to .pdf, and I would like to have all the slides in the same
order as they show in the presentation. For example, I want it to
print the first five slides of one presentation, followed by two
slides of the other, back to the 6th and 7th slides of the first one,
etc-- all into the same .pdf.

I know it is possible to print out two .pdf's from Powerpoint and
merge them in the Adobe software. However, the presentation is
pretty long with lots of switching back and forth, so I would rather
not have to go though the extract page/insert page process over and
over.

Is it possible to do this in Powerpoint? Thanks,
Rachel

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have a presentation that is a mix between portrait and landscapre

orientation. I need to keep the portrait slides in that orientation
because otherwise they become unreadable when reduced to a paper
document size.

Which brings me to my question:

I can make the presentation switch between portrait and landscape by
making two documents and using hyperlinks. But I want to print this
document to .pdf, and I would like to have all the slides in the same
order as they show in the presentation. For example, I want it to
print the first five slides of one presentation, followed by two
slides of the other, back to the 6th and 7th slides of the first one,
etc-- all into the same .pdf.

I know it is possible to print out two .pdf's from Powerpoint and
merge them in the Adobe software. However, the presentation is
pretty long with lots of switching back and forth, so I would rather
not have to go though the extract page/insert page process over and
over.

PowerPoint's pretty singleminded about keeping you in a single orientation.
There are various workarounds, but they all focus on screenshow usage. The
only other solutions I can think of offhand for print/PDF use involve exporting
to something like EMF/WMF files and importing those in proper page order into
Word or a DTP app and PDFing from there.

Yeah. I know. More trouble, less quality than the solution you've already
worked out using Acrobat. And that's the one I think you may be stuck with.