Utiliities to spruce your slideshows

[bosky101]

XVERT

XVERT is a single executable that converts popular document formats to plaintext & html. This includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Acrobat.

powerpointflip

PowerPointFlip is a tool for capturing slide transitions during a live Microsoft PowerPoint talk and combining the slide images with a Real video file so that when the talk is replayed, streamed from the web, slide transitions will flip in sync.

Doc2pdf

Doc2pdf is an email robot that converts Microsoft Office attachments (.doc, .ppt, and .xls) to PDF. Next time you email a Microsoft Office document, CC doc2pdf. Doc2pdf will convert the attachment to PDF, and send it in a reply to all recipients.

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Export Graphics from PowerPoint**

Export an Entire Presentation
You can export a single slide or all the slides in a presentation to individual WMF or BMP/JPG/PNG/GIF files (and TIF if you have PowerPoint 2000 or later).

**CMX PPT Image Exporter Extension for Dreamweaver **(in case u have it)

The CMX PPT Image Exporter* extension for Dreamweaver MX and Dreamweaver MX 2004 makes it easy on the developer to quickly pull out the slides of a client’s PowerPoint presentation as images for use within the client’s site.all you need do is browse to a PowerPoint file and a folder to export the slides to, choose an image type, from the five available, and specifiy the resulting size of the images, and with the click of a button, you’re done

XML-CMS

This project is building a Programmers Project and Content Management System based on XML. Converter tools will translate .txt, .html, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .sql, .cpp, .java etc etc files into xml. xsl-stylesheets will convert these into a publishing format

Bulletproof your sound, movie and graphics links

Problem
When you insert sounds, movies and linked images into a PowerPoint presentation from any folder but the one the presentation has been saved to, PowerPoint creates a link that points to the full drive, folder and filename of the file…That way, when you move the whole works – PowerPoint file, sound and movie files and linked graphics files – to another computer or burn a CD …

Image Exporter - Graphics export with full size control

The RnR Image Exporter is a fast, easy way to export graphics from PowerPoint as GIF, JPG, PNG or WMF (and now TIFF if you have PowerPoint 2000 or later).

Also,Adobe Acrobat, 5D PDF Creator and **FreePDF **are said to let you print your PowerPoint files into Adobe’s PDF format.while adobe doesnt keep links,etc …Prep4PDF is said to keep them as well as PPT2HTML /so after turning into a pdf ,should be easier to handle .
CorelDRAW, Macromedia Freehand and Adobe Illustrator allow more vector editing control than within PowerPoint.
**All Media Extractor 1.0 :vertag: **(freeware)

Take full control of all hidden Media on your Computer and on the Web. Media extraction and visualization tool for Web sites, Zip files, Folders and MS Office documents.All Media Extractor extracts Media from Web and Windows folders but also extracts Media resources from zip files, Office document on the Web, and on your computer. Supports Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents for the following Office versions: 97, 2000, .NET, 2003. All Media Extractor support the following Media (Video, Audio, Picture) file formats: jpeg, bmp, gif, wmf, mp3, wav, wma, wmv, mpeg, avi… and much more since you can add any formats supported by your computers (e.g. ico, png, tiff, divx…).

misc links (which i think may turn futile)
Image Importer Wizard
The Slide Converter Wizard

[GeneralS]

in addition:

Presentation to Video Converter ppt or pps to all known video formats (avi, mpeg, vcd…) Tested on many convertions by myself - result was great.

[m31]

great list thanks

[Bhargav]

Informative thankx