unable to render HTML in powerpoint

[tipsy_Tom]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone knows if powerpoint for mac (the lastest
office verison) can open and display web pages. All the tests i've
tried seems to indicate no. Specifically i'm trying to open a simple
page that has a image tag that links to a picture somewhere on the
internet. On windows when ppt opens up this file it display the image
fine, however with macintosh it doesn't display anything. Any help is
appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom

 

[mmmmark]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone knows if powerpoint for mac (the lastest
office verison) can open and display web pages. All the tests i've
tried seems to indicate no. Specifically i'm trying to open a simple
page that has a image tag that links to a picture somewhere on the
internet. On windows when ppt opens up this file it display the image
fine, however with macintosh it doesn't display anything. Any help is
appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom

What are you trying to show? Can you just download the image and link to it
"artificially" so that when you click on the link it appears to go to that
image? I've done this sort of thing before for dramatic effect.

You could also switch over to a browser if you are showing significant
amounts of web surfing.

Another approach would let you take a "movie" of web surfing and then insert
it in Powerpoint. Do a search for "Snapz Pro".

Let me know what it is you're trying to accomplish and maybe I can help
more.

-Mark

 

[tipsy_Tom]

thanks for your response, what i have is a web app that is displaying a
png of a chart on a webpage. I want to be able for users to click on a
link on my webpage and have my webapp send an "export" of this image as
a powerpoint slide. So when the users does an "export" their web
browser will alert they will be downloading a powerpoint mime type,
which then ppt can open and display the image. The way this currently
works is that a html file with the img tag containing a reference to
the image on the server is generated with a .ppt extension and
powerpoint mimetype. On windows this works perfectly, when the user
opens the powerpoint side, the image shows up, even tho the file itself
is in html format and not the binary format of powerpoint. I suspect
the powerpoint for windows is more robust in that respect over the mac
version of powerpoint. Does that make sense?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

thanks for your response, what i have is a web app that is displaying a
png of a chart on a webpage. I want to be able for users to click on a
link on my webpage and have my webapp send an "export" of this image as
a powerpoint slide. So when the users does an "export" their web
browser will alert they will be downloading a powerpoint mime type,
which then ppt can open and display the image. The way this currently
works is that a html file with the img tag containing a reference to
the image on the server is generated with a .ppt extension and
powerpoint mimetype. On windows this works perfectly, when the user
opens the powerpoint side, the image shows up, even tho the file itself
is in html format and not the binary format of powerpoint. I suspect
the powerpoint for windows is more robust in that respect over the mac
version of powerpoint. Does that make sense?

Yes. PowerPoint for Windows seems able to open a fairly wide range of HTML
files and convert them to reasonable PPT-facsimiles. I don't know about more
recent versions, but PPT/X can open its own HTML quite nicely and yet it
doesn't know what to do with an html file that's no more than the most basic
html header tags plus an <img src="whatever">

But that may be the key. Bring an image into PPT Mac, position it the way you
want it, then save as Web Page. In the resulting HTML, locate the reference to
the image. Now all you need to do is replace that reference with the name of a
new image and PPT Mac should be able to open the result.




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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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[tipsy_Tom]

hmm i will try doing that, although it may be difficult server side if
the mac specific html has complex references, thanks for the tip

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

hmm i will try doing that, although it may be difficult server side if
the mac specific html has complex references, thanks for the tip

Actually, it may be even simpler than what I described. You can probably:

- Leave the html alone
- Work out the name of the image you're after
- Then as needed, copy the "template" files to a folder, copy your new image into
the same folder, same name, letting it replace the needed image

And that should be all it takes.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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