Power Point Viewer - issues

[Yvan]

Hello!

I am wondering if someone can give me a couple of pointers that I am having
with a power point presentation that I need to get out...

First, I created a presentation with PP 2000 with about a dozen ".wav"
videos and voice recordings. The presentation works fine on my computer but
when I Pack and Go some of the slides do not work properly anymore. On some
of the slides the movie clip, pictures or voice recordings won't start up.

Now I saved to a folder on my computer before burning to a CD... I also
tried not linking the files and putiing all the files separately onto the CD.
I have tried using PP Viewer 97 and 2003 but with the same results.

Sometimes my media files are included in the TEXT portion of the custom
animation and other times it is a separate audio file that I have inserted
into the PP. There seems to be no common denominator to my file set-up that
is causing the problem.

This is a CD that I need to send out to numerous individuals and I was
hoping that I could set it up to just autorun when the CD is popped in but I
don't seem to have that option on PP 2000.

Any recommendations?

Also, is there a simple way for me to convert this file so that it can be
viewed on the internet?

 

[Pdek]

Lots of issues here. First, which version are you running? 2002?
"Pack 'n Go" is one of those "features" that are best left alone, there are
better ways to do the same thing. Echo S has a page on how to make an
autorun CD (I hope somebody will supply the URL) that takes about 15 minutes
to set up (if you're as slow as I am). The one thing I'll add to Echo's
explanation is that once you've set up an autorun CD, all you need to do
usually to set up the next one is to copy the files you've already made (with
perhaps a few edits on filenames).

WAV files - embedded or inserted (or perhaps both in your presentation?)
After doing the WAV's consistently - just make sure that they are all kept
in the same folder as the PPT. Also - though most people here seem to
disagree - I like inserting MP3's - at least it seems to work for me.

Video is always a major problem - from what I've read here. Somebody else
will have to advise.

Was there a question about PowerPoint Viewer? It won't do some things like
VB.
But it is good to include on a CD in case your viewers don't have PPT
already installed.

Hope this helps you get started.

 

[Pdek]

Sorry - You said it's 2000 version
One thing else you might think about when distributing something on disk is
security. There are no good answers here, but I've used Shyam Pillai's
SecurePak
to get around a few problems. I'm a very satified customer (no other
connection).

 

[Yvan]

Thanks!

I also have another issue which I caused but can't seem to fix... I want to
burn my PPT presentation to a cd but it's giving me this error:

Cannot add files "my presentation"...
The selected WMA files are protected and cannot be processed...

How do I resolve?

Also, is there an easy way that I can get this PPT presentation onto a web
page?

 

[Pdek]

References (from below) on CD creation:
"You need to follow the instructions for PPT 2002 here:
http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd2.htm
Or grab Sonia's software -- it will make your life a bit easier.
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/acdpc_instructions.htm"

As far as copying to CD - make sure you keep everything that's linked in one
file folder (this isn't absolute - but it sure makes things easier). Then
open the file folder, SELECT ALL, then copy these all at once to the CD. I'm
sure different CD burners have different ways to do this, but I'd be afraid
of breaking links if I used any other method.

Conversion to webpages can be straightforward and I think echosvoice or
pptfaqs has something on it. Otherwise you can search the archives here. My
2 problems with this are 1) how to get the web page to come out full screen,
and 2) it doesn't convert all the aimations very well.

"copy protected files"? Are they copyrighted? If so I'd look for some
non-copyrighted stuff (hard I know).

Hope this helps.

 

[Yvan]

The files are not copyrighted... These are files that I created and somehow
added a security mesure to prevent from copying...

 

[tohlz]

It's possible that the sound file is protected by Digital Rights Management
(DRM).
You might want to try downloading sound editor such as audacity and see if
you are able to convert it into mp3 or other format.

Sound Editors:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00305.htm
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