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Publisher Slide Show
Carrie wrote:
"JoAnn Paules" wrote in message ... A full screen .pdf file looks a heckuva lot like a slide show. Try it with any .pdf file you have. :-) I can't get a pdf file to open in Power Point. It says it can't open that type of file. The idea isn't to open the PDF in PowerPoint; open a landscape PDF in Adobe Reader and press Ctrl+L for full-screen. PageDown will take you to the next "slide". -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org |
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"Ed Bennett" wrote in message ... Carrie wrote: "JoAnn Paules" wrote in message ... A full screen .pdf file looks a heckuva lot like a slide show. Try it with any .pdf file you have. :-) I can't get a pdf file to open in Power Point. It says it can't open that type of file. The idea isn't to open the PDF in PowerPoint; open a landscape PDF in Adobe Reader and press Ctrl+L for full-screen. PageDown will take you to the next "slide". Okay Sometimes it does get confusing when first figuring it out. -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org |
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"JoAnn Paules" wrote in message ... PPT can be fun but *please* don't go adding animations and sound anywhere you can just because you can. My boss had me edit a slideshow that looked like whoever created it was saying "Look what I can do!". It was hideous! One slide talked about how one of the connector types was developed by Jim Cannon (of Cannon Electric). The text on that slide shoots out from the right to the left with the sound of a rifle firing. Get it? Cannon...rifle. sigh Half of the pages had crap like this. My boss hated it but had to use it for a class in best practices. We're in the process of rewriting the full slide deck but in the meantime, he now has a version without the stupid text tricks or sound. The same advice goes for Publisher documents or web sites (regardless of the program). Keeping it simple is *always* best. Unless you're in some sort of competition to create the worst of whatever. ;-) I think I've gotten forwards with PP presentations like that. The ones with the crashing music, and magnificiant pictures (usually at low resolution- made big so the pixels show) and the writing on them, supposed to be inspirational. What I have realized, especially with the 2007 programs is, there is so much! I can make all kinds of shapes, and colors and put shadows and 3D and fancy Wordart, etc! I do this playing around, to see what everything does, but you are so right, a little goes a long way. I've also noticed that, at least with Word (as I get to know more about it) there are so many ways, to come up with basically the same thing. What you discribe with Cannon and the rifle sounds more like something in Flash (I have tried several times, over years to do more in Flash than get a ball to bounce around on the screen (LOL) Computers and creative programs, for me a match made in Heaven. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Carrie" wrote in message ... "LVTravel" wrote in message ... You could save each page of the Publisher file as a .jpg (File, SaveAs & scroll down in the Save As Type dropdown almost to the bottom) then create the slides using PowerPoint's Insert, Picture, New Photo Album feature to create a nice quick slide show of the various Publisher file pages. Just remember, by default Publisher files create a Portrait image for putting on paper while PowerPoint creates a landscape image for display on a computer or projector. Unless you created your Publisher file in the landscape format, the images in the PowerPoint show will be reduced in size significantly. That's good to know, and now that Ithink of it most ofwhat Ido in Publisher is portrait. Even the tent card, that are printed landscape (well 2 to a page) are still printed portrait (I was just thinking how anyone reading that who hasn't experienced it would think that was gibberish (LOL) I think I need to find the PP newsgroup. I've never done much with PP, though I've gotten slide shows people have sent to me and know what it is. Now I've seen a bit of it, it looks fascinating. Carrie "Carrie" wrote in message ... "JoAnn Paules" wrote in message ... You could use .pdf files for that. Adobe Reader will allow you to go full screen and would look quite like a PPT slideshow. I was going to ask if anything made in Publisher could be used/imported into Power Point (which I know very little about). I decided to open it and try and found it won't open Pub files (Power Point) I came back here to ask what one could save Publisher files as, to move into PP and use in a silde show (just for general information, to know) and you have apparently already answered it. Now I'll have to go and try this. Carrie -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Confuzzed" wrote in message ... I have created several publisher documents and I want to put them together in a slide show, how do I do that? Its not anything that is being published to the web, its strictly for a presentation. Should I use PowerPoint and if so... how? |
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"Ed Bennett" wrote in message ... LVTravel wrote: You could save each page of the Publisher file as a .jpg Or you could use a PNG and avoid smudging all your text. I completely fail to understand the world's obsession with JPEGs. I know what you mean, I use it out of habit. It's what I first learned, and seems to do a lot (like upload to websites, can be shared on Instant Messager, etc) so I automatically save as that. I need to write myself a note and stick it on the compuer (LOL) -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org |
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"Ed Bennett" wrote in message ... Carrie wrote: "JoAnn Paules" wrote in message ... A full screen .pdf file looks a heckuva lot like a slide show. Try it with any .pdf file you have. :-) I can't get a pdf file to open in Power Point. It says it can't open that type of file. The idea isn't to open the PDF in PowerPoint; open a landscape PDF in Adobe Reader and press Ctrl+L for full-screen. PageDown will take you to the next "slide". I was trying this more last night and going by directions from one of the links, I clicked on intert "object" on the top right of PP and it let me browse to my pdf files and opened them on the PP page. Of course it would help if I stopped to learn enough about about the basics of PP FIRST, like setting up and saving and playing the presentations. I really don't need to know this, but just got interested in it, from a creative and learning place, because I have (and have had for years) a simple screensaver maker program (I bought from someone selling them on ebay, think it was 9.99 plus shipping) that works good for this type of thing. Pictures, words, effects, and can be saved/sent to someone else, and when openned they have the choice of INSTALL or RUN so will run like PP would. Though I don't think it has as much, or does as much as PP seems to. This has been interesting, even though it's not really Publisher. I have alot of cards, calendars, setups, etc that I've made in Publisher and saved with Primo PDF. I have an unofficial unspoken goal of "learn something new everyday" and when I get into these newsgroups (Thank you Microsoft!) I learn a lot more than one thing.I end up actually feeling smarter (LOL) Carrie -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org |
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"Ed Bennett" wrote in message ... LVTravel wrote: You could save each page of the Publisher file as a .jpg Or you could use a PNG and avoid smudging all your text. I completely fail to understand the world's obsession with JPEGs. -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org Actually Ed you are correct about .png files but as Carrie said, it's what you first think about or learned about. I actually don't have any problem with .jpgs when I save as 300 dpi unless they have to be resized larger. I make sure they are the proper size before importing into PowerPoint. Also, one of my graphic editing programs won't handle .png file formats (yes it's an older one.) Of course, I also save myself the aggravation of having to do what Carrie is trying to do by using the correct program for the job in the first place. |
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"LVTravel" wrote in message ... "Ed Bennett" wrote in message ... LVTravel wrote: You could save each page of the Publisher file as a .jpg Or you could use a PNG and avoid smudging all your text. I completely fail to understand the world's obsession with JPEGs. -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org Actually Ed you are correct about .png files but as Carrie said, it's what you first think about or learned about. I actually don't have any problem with .jpgs when I save as 300 dpi unless they have to be resized larger. I make sure they are the proper size before importing into PowerPoint. Also, one of my graphic editing programs won't handle .png file formats (yes it's an older one.) Of course, I also save myself the aggravation of having to do what Carrie is trying to do by using the correct program for the job in the first place. Sometimes I like to learn how (or if) I can do something, even if it's NOT the correct or best program, just to see if it's possible and I can do it. Like I discovered I can click INSERTOBJECT and bring a pdf file into Power Point. I don't know if I'll ever need this, or even make a real PP presentation, but if I'll know about it. Also, about the png files, I was thinking more about this, and think if I save images like this, will I be able to send them to others? Will others think I'm nuts to not be using the regular jpg, will they send correctly in email (or via instant message which I use some with family) Will they upload to websites okay? Or, will I end up with 2 files of each, one png and one jpg? I don't do a lot of printing, and usually reduce the images to a lower resolution and size for sending or on the web. They come off my camera as jpg. Not sure if it can be set differently, I know it has RAW image. (Canon Power Shot G-6) Now I'm going to start saving some as png and see if it works for everything. I tried this at one time with tif and for some reason, had to change them to jpg (I forget why now, maybe I just thought I did) It's like a comfort zone thing. |
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"Carrie" wrote in message ... "LVTravel" wrote in message ... "Ed Bennett" wrote in message ... LVTravel wrote: You could save each page of the Publisher file as a .jpg Or you could use a PNG and avoid smudging all your text. I completely fail to understand the world's obsession with JPEGs. -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org Actually Ed you are correct about .png files but as Carrie said, it's what you first think about or learned about. I actually don't have any problem with .jpgs when I save as 300 dpi unless they have to be resized larger. I make sure they are the proper size before importing into PowerPoint. Also, one of my graphic editing programs won't handle .png file formats (yes it's an older one.) Of course, I also save myself the aggravation of having to do what Carrie is trying to do by using the correct program for the job in the first place. Sometimes I like to learn how (or if) I can do something, even if it's NOT the correct or best program, just to see if it's possible and I can do it. Like I discovered I can click INSERTOBJECT and bring a pdf file into Power Point. I don't know if I'll ever need this, or even make a real PP presentation, but if I'll know about it. Also, about the png files, I was thinking more about this, and think if I save images like this, will I be able to send them to others? Will others think I'm nuts to not be using the regular jpg, will they send correctly in email (or via instant message which I use some with family) Will they upload to websites okay? Or, will I end up with 2 files of each, one png and one jpg? I don't do a lot of printing, and usually reduce the images to a lower resolution and size for sending or on the web. They come off my camera as jpg. Not sure if it can be set differently, I know it has RAW image. (Canon Power Shot G-6) Now I'm going to start saving some as png and see if it works for everything. I tried this at one time with tif and for some reason, had to change them to jpg (I forget why now, maybe I just thought I did) It's like a comfort zone thing. I definitely understand about trying to learn new things and trying out different things to see if they work. My cameras (three of them from different manufacturers) also create .jpg images and the cameras can't be changed to other formats. When I need a different format I use graphics conversions programs to change the formats. Now, if you are putting the .jpg images into the Publisher file, that is perfectly fine even if you resize it. What Ed was saying is that when you output the publisher file to a graphic file (where I said SaveAs .jpg) he recommended a .png file format as being a better trade off for quality when input into PowerPoint. PNG is a lossless compression format where .jpg is a format where part of the image information is lost when it is compressed. I can see where he is coming from when he made the comment. IMHO other than in specific uses TIFF (especially uncompressed) is a dying format. |
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