Tuesday, May 22, 2007

PowerPoint to Flash Conversion

PowerPoint to Flash Conversion Tools - The PPT2Flash Top20
Advantages:
1) Greater Accessibility
2) Compatibility
3) Reduced Files Size: A PowerPoint presentation converted to Flash can drastically reduce the size up to 1/10th of the original file size.

In the tools this free tool is 2nd in the list.
2) OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/
Convert any of its files including PowerPoint files into Flash files. It's free and has great tool for direct conversion of PowerPoint files to .swf files. You only have to import PowerPoint file to OpenOffice and then export presentation to .swf file. Transitions and animations are not supported.
Price: Free

Students can implement this as a collage project to prepare presentations and convert to flash using free openoffice.org and have it hosted on their local network. Any student/faculty can access these. This way students can learn how to create presentations and present to a group of audience.
Usage: programming languages, concepts ( like electronics amplifier )

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Yes, OpenOffice uis free, but it create presentations with bad quality: without animations, not in vector format etc.