InDesign to PowerPoint
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- canoe
I'm staring down an 80 page PPT document and I can't and won't make any sense of it... I did a little search and found out InDesign can be very helpful in converting docs to PPT... or just PDF to PPT.
Anybody ever had to run down this road before?
- prophetone3
Just run. Run for your goddamn life my friend.
- Yeah. This.jtb26
- lolbklyndroobeki
- ahhhhhhhhcanoe
- haha!PonyBoy
- bklyndroobeki0
doesn't sound too hard canoe
- what is it that you want to know how to do?bklyndroobeki
- prophetone0
if you output INDD pages to simple, high res PNGs or JPGs then piece of cake.
if you require editable text and fonts remaining happy and all that good stuff, then sorcery and sacrifice is req'd.
- prophetone0
And then there's this as a possible way to bridge through to a solution via good 'ole Acrobat
https://acrobat.adobe.com/ca/en/…
But you may still end up all like
- Fax_Benson1
- regularly saves my sanityFax_Benson
- Cool link!maquito
- Ah, usefulcanoe
- Cheers!HAYZ1LLLA
- akiersky0
also
http://document.online-convert.c…if you can output as pdf or jpgs or something
- monospaced0
Why would anyone want it as a PowerPoint unless it's 100% editable? This sounds like a nightmare to recreate. Would simply say that there is no simple conversion.
- So that the design doesn't look like complete shitcanoe
- We'll have a meeting with the presenter, he'll ultimately decide whether he can deal with this situation...canoe
- Right now the collateral is nice and tight, the PPT is way off.canoe
- If it's a non editable ppt it's useless. Just use a pdf instead.monospaced
- Projectile0
Export to EMF files. (I've only done it from Illustrator)
It will give you a smallish vector file. On a PC you can ungroup EMF's and make them editable, though the text turns into awkward separate text boxes. A bit like opening a badPDF in Illustrator but worse. You're better off importing graphics as EMF and redoing the text if it needs to be editable.
PPT has pretty decent paragraph/leading options but kerning is a bitch.
Also you can embed fonts, but not all fonts... so you might need to go for a safe font. Test it.
- Projectile0
I'm actually putting a tutorial together called PowerPoint for designers, which has all the info you'll need without all the crap. I can't see how to email you, though... I'd love to send it and get some feedback if you're interested?
Can also give advice, I've been bridging the Adobe-PPT gap for years
PM me if interested -
- omg0
- oh shitbklyndroobeki
- trolling or did he really say this?bklyndroobeki
- he was making a point about presentation style... how the content is in what you say, not what you show or how flashy the presentation ismonospaced
- ahbklyndroobeki
- bklyndroobeki0
came x this today http://offers.hubspot.com/how-to…
- canoe0
So speaking of "flashy"....
The client, who's producing this for the presenter, keeps talking about gif animations and I keep talking about what Jobs and a lot of people say... it's the experience, it's not in the PPT...
That being said, if you want fluid animation and transitions, there's got to be a better tool than PowerPoint, but not on the level of Flash...
The last time I made a gif animation was in '05, I imagine CS has a tool, is it the same as before, simple step by step timeline turning on and off layers? Or has it advanced - can we animate masks?
- Keynote?monospaced
- photoshop's animation features have improved a lot, more similar to after effects these daysakiersky
- better yet, use after effects and output to frames > photoshop's load files into stack to put them all into layers, then layers to frames.akiersky
- vaxorcist1
ok.... breathe deep, culture clash may be coming....
The last few times I worked at an agency on PPT projects, there was a strong disconnect between business people and designers, where the business people kept wanting "more flash stuff" and "fit more in please" .... and the designers kept trying to simplify things, and take try to make it less overwhelming.... the talk-look went a bit like this:
BizPerson: Can't you make it more flashy and put more stuff in?!?!?
Designer: yes, that's possible but it will be a bit odd looking
BizPerson: Hey, thanks for adding all this, but why does it have to look so busy, can't you make it more elegant, and by the way, when will it be done?!?!? I have a lot of things that have to be changed and such?!?!