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Hi guys, I was directed over here from the windows powerpoint newsgroup...
I am trying to create an autorunning CD which will work on both PC and MAC.
I'm using powerpoint primarily because I know it and its free. It may well be
that what I am trying to do is nigh on impossible.
I am trying to create a digital CV for my girlfriend, who is an artist. Many
of her potential clients will use MACs hence the requirement for the CD to
autorun on both MAC and PC platforms. The presentation is required to be more
like a website than a presentation - intro screen with options to look at
education, contact info, different aspects of her work. These options are
hyperlinked to other parts of the presentation. In her work will be
thumbnails of her images, and clicking on these images will bring up the
full-size pieces of work. Again these will probably be done by hyperlinking
to other parts of the presentation with the images embedded, since I have
read that links can often fail moving cross-platform. I can create the PC
autorun file in windows, and package the CD with the required powerpoint
viewer so the whole package is entirely self-contained, but I don't know how
to achieve the same functionality on MAC. I have heard I need to create a
hybrid CD to allow both file systems, and I have also heard that this option
is only available on MACs, and unfortunately I haven't handy access to a MAC.
Please can someone help! Enlighten me and/or suggest methods to reach my
desired outcome! If what I am trying to do IS impossible, does anyone know of
some cheap software which will allow me to achieve the same outcome?
Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you.
Niall
I am trying to create an autorunning CD which will work on both PC and MAC.
I'm using powerpoint primarily because I know it and its free. It may well be
that what I am trying to do is nigh on impossible.
I am trying to create a digital CV for my girlfriend, who is an artist. Many
of her potential clients will use MACs hence the requirement for the CD to
autorun on both MAC and PC platforms. The presentation is required to be more
like a website than a presentation - intro screen with options to look at
education, contact info, different aspects of her work. These options are
hyperlinked to other parts of the presentation. In her work will be
thumbnails of her images, and clicking on these images will bring up the
full-size pieces of work. Again these will probably be done by hyperlinking
to other parts of the presentation with the images embedded, since I have
read that links can often fail moving cross-platform. I can create the PC
autorun file in windows, and package the CD with the required powerpoint
viewer so the whole package is entirely self-contained, but I don't know how
to achieve the same functionality on MAC. I have heard I need to create a
hybrid CD to allow both file systems, and I have also heard that this option
is only available on MACs, and unfortunately I haven't handy access to a MAC.
Please can someone help! Enlighten me and/or suggest methods to reach my
desired outcome! If what I am trying to do IS impossible, does anyone know of
some cheap software which will allow me to achieve the same outcome?
Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you.
Niall